The politics of health care reform could get even more complicated for Democrats if a bill isn’t passed by the end of January, when the Congressional Budget Office releases new long-term U.S. economic projections. If those new projections are more pessimistic than the current projections, which were used to help calculate the cost of health care reform, then the new numbers could increase the expected cost of the bill and wreak havoc on the carefully stitched together compromise that has Democratic budget hawks, especially in the Senate, reluctantly supporting reform.
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