Policy analysts, Democrats, and Republicans dissatisfied with the deal agree: Federal health programs have dodged a budgetary bullet in the Washington showdown over raising the nation's debt ceiling.

A compromise bill — approved in a bipartisan vote by the House of Representatives on Wednesday night, and approved by the Senate late Thursday — includes some trims and caps on health spending for the next two years.

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