DEAD ON ARRIVAL:

Health reform bill could cost over $1T (CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN, 6/15/09, Politico)

A health care reform bill proposed by Sen. Ted Kennedy’s committee would cost more than $1 trillion over 10 years while still leaving millions of people uninsured, according to a preliminary estimate released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.

The analysis projected that about 37 million people would still go without insurance once the bill is fully implemented, falling far short of President Barack Obama's promise to extend coverage to all Americans.

That's that. Such a bill has zero chance of passing.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 16, 2009 1:05 PM