1. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scores a modified Health Education Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee health care proposal at $611.4 billion, but the bill would still leave 34 million Americans without insurance.
2. The plan includes a public option and an employer mandate with a $750-per-employee penalty for the uninsured.
3. Read the Kennedy/Dodd letter to the committee here.
4. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) continues to modify his public plan proposal.
5. American Medical Association supports “an American Model” of public and private insurance companies.
6. President Obama held a health care roundtable in Annandale, Virginia yesterday to promote reform legislation.
