House health care bill exceeds $1 trillion
October 23, 2009 | Illinois | Vetting explained
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Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.
Some moderate Democrats have expressed reluctance to support a bill as high as $1 trillion. Last month, Obama said in a nationally televised address before a joint session of Congress that he preferred a package with a price tag of around $900 billion
I would love to support a bill like this, but with this price tag. It still asks the question. Who's gonna pay for it?
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