Health Insurance proposal

A group of business, consumer and health care organizations will announce a health insurance plan to dramatically reduce the estimated 47 million uninsured Americans in this country. The health plan is the result of nearly 2 solid years of negotiations

The proposal, by a group called the Health Coverage Coalition for the Uninsured, is the latest attempt since Democrats seized control of Congress to address America's health insurance crisis. It's notable because it represents a unified action plan by organizations with varied and often competing interests and because lawmakers and their staffers were excluded from negotiations.

The coalition is expected to call for increased tax credits to help pay for health insurance coverage for children and for pooling large numbers of uninsured individuals to get cheaper health insurance rates.