DEM: HEALTH CARE PLANWILL COST $1 TRILLION

BENEFITS WOULD BE TAXED
WASHINGTON TIMES: Congressional leaders searching for ways to fund an overhaul of the nation's health care system are prepared to tax for the first time employer-provided medical benefits . . . Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, put the estimated cost of a reform bill at $1 trillion, but warned Friday that's a broad estimate. Others have put the estimate at $1.5 trillion or as high as $2 trillion. . . . READ MORE

OBAMA SEEKS A.M.A. SUPPORT
ASSOCIATED PRESS: President Barack Obama . . . will urge doctors gathered in Chicago to support wider insurance coverage and targeted federal spending cuts . . . To an audience of doctors Obama plans to say the United States spends too much on health care and gets too little in return. He says the health industry is crushing businesses and families and is leading to millions of Americans losing coverage . . . READ MORE