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    Breaking story from AP...

    "New Dem health plan has public option, lower cost"

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090…

    Democrats on a key Senate Committee outlined a revised and far less costly health care plan Wednesday night that includes a government-run insurance option and an annual fee on employers who do not offer coverage to their workers.

    The plan carries a 10-year price tag of slightly over $600 billion, and would lead toward an estimated 97 percent of all Americans having coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Chris Dodd said in a letter to other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The AP obtained a copy.

    By contrast, an earlier, incomplete proposal carried a price tag of roughly $1 trillion and would have left millions uninsured, CBO analysts said in mid-June.

    The letter indicated the cost and coverage improvements resulted from two changes. The first calls for a government-run health insurance option to compete with private coverage plans, an option that has drawn intense opposition from Republicans.
    "We must not settle for legislation that merely gestures at reform," the two Democrats wrote. "We must deliver on the promise of true change."

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    • Whatever. Geez, $600 billion is allot better that 1 Trillion, NOT. You idiots just don't get it, do you?
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    • Anything to 'sell' it to you sheeple. Funny how the price tag on this keeps getting smaller....tommyo
    • But that should raise any red flags for you I guess. I have a house to sell you worth 400k.. oh you don't like that.. I meantommyo
    • it's worth 300k.. oh too much.. sorry it's worth 200k. I'd be worried about what I'm going to find buried in the backyard.tommyo
    • You have no other ideas, so shut the fuck up.DrBombay
    • you don't like taxes, we get it already. Move on. They aren't going away.DrBombay
    • You don't get it and you attack me for it. Fuck you and your dream of suckling from momma governments tit. Lazy cunt.tommyo
    • I have worked solid since I was 12... Stay within the boundaries of reality, you dumb cunt.DrBombay
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