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When the House Democratic leadership unveiled its proposed legislation to mandate universal healthcare, ABC's Jonathan Karl covered the bill from Capitol Hill and CBS' Chip Reid covered it from the White House. NBC decided not to assign a correspondent to the 1,000-page plan and mentioned it only in passing.
ABC's Karl and CBS' Reid agreed on the highlights of the package: 97% of the population would be covered; it would cost the federal government an additional $1tr over the next decade; funding would include an income tax surcharge on rich people; the government would offer coverage to compete with private insurance. They split on prospects for passage. CBS' Reid characterized the opposition as consisting of all Republicans and "40 conservative Democrats, enough to kill it." ABC's Karl saw fewer obstacles in the House, confined to "most Republicans," while the "tougher challenge" will be to be resolve differences between this plan and whatever the Senate passes.
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