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3% uninsured is 9 million.

...would lead toward an estimated 97 percent of all Americans having coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Chris Dodd said in a letter to other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The AP obtained a copy.

By contrast, an earlier, incomplete proposal carried a price tag of roughly $1 trillion and would have left millions uninsured, CBO analysts said in mid-June.

So both plans leave millions uninsured. I guess it's too much to expect every reporter to understand basic math skills and use them in their writing. < / sigh>

Jeff Wegerson - Prairie State Blue

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by: wegerje @ Thu Jul 02, 2009 at 08:54:30 AM CDT