Let me alert you that your wonderful Senate and Congress acquiesced like Scrooge to a bill that cuts the original $7.5 billion over eight years for 9/11 workers health care down to $4.3 billion for health coverage over five years.

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Okay, get ready. Game on. Senator Harry Reid , who’s huddling with senior aides as we speak, has decided to hold a presser today at 3:15 in the Capitol to announce his decision on what to include in the final health care bill, a senior Senate aide confirms. According to multiple, anonymously sourced reports — see here and here , for instance — Reid is poised to include a public option with an opt out in the bill. Now we’ll soon hear it directly from Reid himself. Getting interesting

And let’s not forget that Medicare ended up costing roughly 5 times its original estimate Fox News Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month. Democrats have touted an unreleased Congressional Budget Office estimate of $871 billion in recent da