Health bill would cost $829B, cover 94 percent (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Wed, 10/07/2009 - 6:19pm

Senate Finance Committee members, from left, Sen.<br /><br />Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. , center,confer with committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1,2009, as the committee continued its health care markup.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate trumpeted by the White House and likely to power the measure past a major hurdle within days.




 

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