Jolted by cost estimates
as high as $1.6 trillion, Senate Democrats agreed to scale back planned
subsidies for the uninsured and sought concessions totaling hundreds of
billions of dollars from private industry Tuesday to defray the cost of
sweeping health care legislation. At the same time, key Democrats disagreed openly among themselves over a proposed tax on health insurance benefits to pay for expanding coverage to the uninsured.
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