Just read this in the Wall St Journal:
White House officials notably didn't emphasize that any revised legislation should include a major expansion of health insurance. Expanding coverage to the uninsured was the key plank of the separate health bills passed by the House and Senate last year, but such efforts largely accounted for the about $1 trillion cost of the bills, and Republicans decried them as too costly
Full article here:
http://online.wsj.com/...
Wow, I didn't see this coming, and maybe I'm reading it wrong. Did Axelrod talk about this in the Talking Head Shows today?
Yves Smith comments here:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/...
If true, this is just amazing. We gave $12.2 trillion to the TBTF banks and Wall St in the last year. You'd think we could spend $1 trillion on health care spread over the next ten years, I mean, heck, that's just $100 billion a year, less than one tenth of what we gave to Wall St in one year.