Officials put health bill cost at $1 trillion
Posted: October 24, 2009 at 7:33 a.m.
Healthcare 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.
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