As to the matter of how much it costs each family, that is not yet available because the circumstances vary enormously. Sometimes there might be a little bit of health care left over. In virtually all cases, there was none left over. The fact is the Joint Tax Committee, which looked at this in a rather conservative fashion, came out with a $179 million cost over a period of 10 years. I don't think the Senator from Oklahoma would challenge that.
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