Rejoice! CBO predicts health care bill will cost $829 billion

What people seem to be forgetting is this Baucus bill is like a car with no brakes, AC, engine or floor mats. Its a base bill that will have to mesh with the liberal Dems plan in the house, more amendments in the both House/Senate that will drive up the costs way more than being predicted.

A compromise health care proposal widely seen as having the best chance to win Democratic and Republican support would cost $829 billion over the next 10 years, nonpartisan budget analysts concluded Wednesday. It also would reduce the federal deficit by more than $80 billion, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. The review of the Senate Finance Committee's amended bill sets the stage for the next step in the politically charged debate over health care reform. Committee members have been waiting for the Budget Office's cost analysis before voting on their version of the bill. The Finance Committee is the last of five congressional panels to consider health care legislation before debate begins in the full House and Senate. The Budget Office's analysis differs slightly from Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' estimate. Baucus, a Montana Democrat, had said the revised bill would cost roughly $900 billion. ....Looking ahead to a potentially accelerated legislative process, top Senate Republicans on Wednesday introduced a resolution requiring all bills to be made public and subjected to a Budget Office cost analysis at least 72 hours before being brought to a vote. The GOP leaders expressed concern that Democrats might eventually try to ram redrafted legislation through Congress with little or no debate. Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, said he was "afraid that part of the strategy from the Obama administration and their allies on the health care bill is to change the target so quickly and to compress the debate time as we go down the path that there is not going to be full opportunity to digest the final version of what we're voting on." For their part, Democratic congressional leaders are still wrestling with several divisive topics. Among other things, they have to decide how hard they want to push for a government-run public health insurance option.

Thats right people, this without the public option, its a blatant snow job to get this passed as THE BILL except that would be wrong.