Best.Graph.Ever.

[FourScore]

So it's okay if the Republicans use reconciliation at a cost of 2 TRILLION dollars...



Consider three bills -- two of them passed under budget reconciliation, the third heading for budget reconciliation. Each had an effect on the fiscal health of the nation, calculated by the Congressional Budget Office. The first two, the tax cuts pushed by President George W. Bush, blew a hole in the budget. The third, the Senate's health reform bill? As you can see from the CBO projection, that's a different story.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/03/04/397865...

[Greyhound]

1. K&R

[spanone]

2. why doesn't the media use this to show the public how hcr will save money?

[Roland99]

10. Ha! No kidding. Everyone but the freeper set knows the M$M will toe the corporate line.

[bamacrat]

17. Rachel Maddow had this on her show the other night as her favorite graph ever.

She delighted in the nerdiness of loving graphs. Love Maddow.

[FourScore]

3. kick

[stevedeshazer]

4. Imagine the CBO projection for single-payer.

We never got to see that graph.

[femrap]

5. Can we tax the Rich now? nt

[applegrove]

6. Wow!

[dysfunctional press]

7. this graph should be on the front page of every newspaper in america...

but it won't- an informed electorate is washington d.c.'s worst nightmare.

[NYC_SKP]

8. kick and rec.. nt

[tavalon]

9. Rachel is a national treasure and fun to watch, to boot

[liberal N proud]

11. K&R

[seattle_blue]

12. I should have known

This is just another example of a silly liberal trying to fill people's heads with all of those crazy facts. And things, and stuff.
Sarah Palin was here!!!!

[Sheepshank]

13. And compare with this graph indicating national monetary deficits....

and the similarities are undeniable!!

[Christa]

14. K & Highly rec'd nt

[DisgustedInMN]

15. Meh...

... let me know when you find one that includes Single Payer. I think selective presentation of "facts" is just another way of lying.

[jonathon]

16. Embrace your inner geekness!

Rachel just rocks.

[Overseas]

18. K&R. But the reconciliation I want is opening up Medicare to all.

Just reconcile the age at which Medicare kicks in.

And for the privatoholics, reconcile the legislators' own "insurance exchange" to include all of us.

[colsohlibgal]

19. Think We'll See This On the Nightly News?

No we won't. They'll spend much more time on the Oscars.

[newtothegame]

20. I was in DC last week. The arguments I heard deal with the % of the economy...

that's being altered, not the cost of the bill.