Health reform bill could cost over $1T

A health care reform bill proposed by Sen. Ted Kennedy’s committee would cost more than $1 trillion over 10 years while still leaving millions of people uninsured, according to a preliminary estimate released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.

The analysis projected that about 37 million people would still go without insurance once the bill is fully implemented, falling far short of President Barack Obama's promise to extend coverage to all Americans.

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Wow, fist time I see a website gives a link to their article if you excerpt anything from the articles on the website.

Anyway, I found this while investigating about Ted Kennedy's "Universal Mandate"

Apparently this analysis found that the health care reform proposed by Ted Kennedy would cost over 1 trillion U.S. dollars in 10 years, and still about 37 million Americans would be ininsured.

Of course, Ted Kennedy and his campaign officials denied this and claimed the analysis was incomplete....



[edit on 17-6-2009 by ElectricUniverse]