<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d6974072-7760-4009-9068-ea0730596eaf/CCDFBD81-465E-407B-9D3F-22D4CF254737/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><H1 id="yn-story-title">AP sources: House health bill totals $1.2 trillion</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><P>WASHINGTON – The <SPAN id="lw_1257208655_0" class="yshortcuts">health care bill</SPAN> headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by <SPAN id="lw_1257208655_1" class="yshortcuts">President Barack Obama</SPAN> as a price tag for his reform plan.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul">While the <SPAN id="lw_1257208655_2" class="yshortcuts">Congressional Budget Office</SPAN> has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher spending for public health, a reinsurance program to hold down <SPAN id="lw_1257208655_3" class="yshortcuts">retiree health costs</SPAN>, payments for preventive services and more.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul">Many of the additions are designed to improve benefits or ease access to coverage in government programs. The officials who provided overall <SPAN id="lw_1257208655_4" class="yshortcuts">cost estimates</SPAN> did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss them.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CCDFBD81-465E-407B-9D3F-22D4CF254737/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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