CBO evaluates cost of public option and estimates it will cost $611.4 billion over 10 years. Estimations are 97% of Americans will be covered by the plan.
Two weeks ago the CBO released a cost estimation for Sen. Kennedy's health bill. Estimated costs were $1 trillion over 10 years and millions still left without coverage. That bill did not include the public option, however. Nevertheless, Republicans pounded on the report saying it killed any such effort to reform health care. Now that the CBO has scored the public option, will Republicans be so quick to stand by CBO or will they continue to use the report that doesn't even include the public option? Last time I brought it up it didn't even garner a response.
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Autopsy on Gandolfini today
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The body of actor James Gandolfini was transferred to a hospital morgue in
Rome early Thursday. FULL STORY
