HuffPo reports public option gaining Senate support

From our friends at the Huffington Post:

Democrats on a key Senate Committee outlined a revised and far less costly health care plan Wednesday night that includes a government-run insurance option and an annual fee on employers who do not offer coverage to their workers.The plan carries a 10-year price tag of slightly over $600 billion, and would lead toward an estimated 97 percent of all Americans having coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and Chris Dodd said in a letter to other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

The full article is available on the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-rosenbaum/all-13-democrats-are-voti_b_224853.html.