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Now i have been covering health care reform on this show for a long time i have read this 2,700-page bill twice. instead of printing it and on the table here like a lot of people have been doing for effect, go to the website. read about this yourself. really important to do so. you know already that this week history is made after more than a year of trying to get legislation passed, president obama signed the bill that provides the biggest expansion of federal health care in more than four decades. it cost $940 billion and it's designed to help roughly 32 million uninsured americans get healt...

Senator faces a tough race at home, basks in glow and support of his one-time running mate. a busy hour ahead. but as always, first, an observation or two. the health care debate has been full of numbers. democrats, for example, are proud to note the new law is designed to provide coverage to 32 million americans who don't have insurance today. the republicans, on the other hand, often start their critique with this number 940 billion, too much, they say, for a country deep in debt to be spending right now. that debate will be front and center coast-to-coast as congress goes home for two weeks...

>> ♪ so lie to me lie to me ♪ >> lie to me? well, what does that have to do with what we're talking about? find out, the president and democratic leaders in congress sold the $940 billion health care bill as legislation that will lower the deficit. but our next guest says it just doesn't add up and it amounts to a bunch of lies. >> ok. who is she? the syndicated columnist for bloomberg and the author of a best selling book "the forgotten man." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> say it isn't so much the c.b.o. is full of liars? >> well, the c.b.o. is like a co-dependent in an alcoholi...

Machinations getting all the ducks in order to process it quickly, and, if the senate wraps up their work, 2:00, 3:00 maybe, the house will already have gotten all of their wheels turning and will process it quickly and try and finish the ping-pong by sending the ball down to the other end of pennsylvania avenue for the president to sign and be done with all of this. martha: we'll have another signing ceremony, carl. >> reporter: probably not. this is the fixes packages, the technical corrections and a good way to look at it is, the senate bill is $875 billion for ten years and the fixes jack ...

Stilling medicare, when it came out in the '60s would cost about $12 billion in 1990. down the road. they estimated that. it costed $107 billion or eight times the original estimate. think about what happens with the healthcare bill. if it's $940 billion, cbo projection now. if they miss it by eight times like medicare, you're talking 7 1/2 trillion dollars. we're already running a deficit. you add $7.5 trillion that i be increases it 60%. >> the argument is -- the selling point, it would be worse if we didn't have this. you're not sure. >> first they sold us on this will bring healthcare down...