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Only ABC assigned a correspondent to cover Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she introduced the House of Representative's version of healthcare reform legislation. Jonathan Karl ticked off the key elements--mandatory universal care, a public option to compete with private insurance, cuts in Medicare reimbursement--and corrected Pelosi's estimate that the package would cost less than $90bn a year over the next decade. Karl put it at an annual $105bn instead. NBC's Savannah Guthrie finished her report with healthcare: "The House and Senate bills pay for reform in very different ways. In the Senate bill, the tax on high-end insurance plans cannot pass the House. The House plan to tax high earners cannot pass the Senate."
Andrew Tyndall 11/1/09 6:22:07 pm

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