dbu` wrote:
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"Richard W." wrote:

You Should Know About Harry Reid's Government-Run Health Care Experiment
1. $493 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Medical
Innovation, Payroll And Small Businesses Would Pay For The Bill. (Douglas W.
Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

2. Americans Won't See Benefits Of This Health Care Experiment Until
2014, But They Start Paying For It In 2010. (Page 13, Douglas W. Elmendorf,
Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

3. Reid's Bill Allegedly Reduces The Deficit By $130 Billion In Ten
Years, But The Obama-Reid-Pelosi Spending Agenda Produced Deficit Of $176
Billion Last Month Alone. (Table 3, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator
Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

4. $465 Billion In Medicare And Medicaid Cuts Would Pay For Two New
Unsustainable Entitlements. (Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry
Reid, 11/18/09)

5. Health Care Costs For The Federal Government - And Your Family -
Would Increase, Not Decrease. (Page 16, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To
Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

6. A New Medicare Commission Of Unelected Bureaucrats Would Ration
Care. (Sec. 3403, H.R. 3590, Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute,
"Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act," Introduced 11/18/09)

7. The "Doc Fix" Provision That Would Add $250 Billion To The Deficit
Is Not Included In The Democrats' List Price For Their Health Care
Experiment. (Page 17, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid,
11/18/09)

8. Taxpayer Dollars Would Fund Abortions. (Sec. 1303(a), H.R. 3590,
Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute, "Patient Protection And Affordable
Care Act," Introduced 11/18/09)

9. A New Entitlement Program For Long-Term Care That One Democrat
Senator Called "A Ponzi Scheme" Would Be Created. (Douglas W. Elmendorf,
Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09; Shailagh Murray & Lori Montgomery,
"Centrists Unsure About Reid's Public Option," The Washington Post,
10/28/09)

10. States Burdened With $25 Billion In Unfunded Mandates From Medicaid That
Would Force Them To Increase Taxes. (Page 7, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To
Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

Yeah...and ask any small business owner if they like this turkey of
government control. The individual taxpayers will like it even less.


But the millions of people with no health insurance at all, the people
with pre-existing conditions, or the people who are sick and can't get
insurance, they're going to love it.


Hawke