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FROM THE MAILBOX: ***HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INFORMATION PROJECT***

from Campaign for America's Future

1.  CBO-KAY! Senate HELP Bill Rebounds
2.  Important new report on public insurance plans from the Urban Institute
3.  Memo To Deficit Hawks: Public Plan Option Indisputably Saves Money
4.  Health Care Deform: Afraid of the public option? This is what America will look like without it
5.  WeWantThePublicOption.com
6.  Tell Congress: Take the Pledge!

1. CBO-KAY! Senate HELP Bill Rebounds
By Tim Foley
Change.org
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Republicans have made hay for the past few weeks on how Ted Kennedy's bill cost too much ($1 trillion dollars) and covered too few (only an additional 16 million).  Of course, that score was on a partial bill, one that the Congressional Budget Office itself claimed "[does] not represent a formal or complete cost estimate for the draft legislation" (italics theirs.)  It also lacked the details on the individual mandate, the employer "pay or play" mandate, and the public health insurance option.  But Kennedy and Chris Dodd have kept at it, undeterred from the catcalls, and have finally delivered the goods.  According to Jon Cohn on The Treatment, the new, full bill is in.
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