CBO: Approximately 11 Or 12 Million People Would Be Insured Under Public Plan

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Good catch from Jacob Goldstein at the Wall Street Journal. According to the Congressional Budget Office, “total enrollment in the public plan would equal about 11 million or 12 million, counting both individually purchased policies and employer-sponsored enrollees.”

As Goldstein notes, “That’s about 4% of the current U.S. population, and seems rather small in comparison to how much attention the debate over the public plan has drawn.”

Quite right. Obviously these estimates have fairly significant margins of error, but keep this in mind next time you hear public option foes warn that over 100 million Americans would be moved on to government run insurance.

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