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Key details of health overhaul bill

The House health care bill passed tonight would:

-- Require most Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a fine.

-- Expand health care coverage to 36 million more people over the next decade.

-- Require employers with payrolls above $500,000 to provide insurance to their employees or pay a fine.

-- Prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions.

-- End premium disparities between men and women.

-- Impose a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge on income above $500,000 annually for individuals and above $1 million annually for households.

-- Establish a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers beginning in 2013.

-- Cost $1.2 billion over 10 years.

-- Cut Medicare spending by more than $400 billion over 10 years.

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