New, Less Costly Healthcare Plan Floated Today

Courtesy Donklephant  Thu, 06/18/2009 - 5:16pm

After the CBO projected major deficits, the plan was revised and recirculated.

And this comes just in the nick of time, as Daschle & Dole’s “state run healthcare” plan has made a major splash today.

Ezra Klein got his hands on the latest and describes it as such…

Sources say that it’s a major scale-back of the outline they had before.

Specifically, subsidies have dropped from 400 percent of the poverty line to...


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