The Congressional Budget Office estimated in a letter to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday that the House health care reform proposal would reduce the number of uninsured by 35 to 37 million people, relative to current projections. The non-elderly insured population would increase to 94 percent.
Excluding illegal immigrants, that brings the total covered under the plan to 97 percent of all Americans. Three million people, the CBO estimates, would switch from employer-based coverage to coverage from an insurance...
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