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The Senate’s Health Care Reform Is Abysmal

The Senate’s Health Care Reform Is Abysmal

healthcare-reformWe are going to try and keep it simple on this one. The bill stinks. Put aside the fact that it expands Medicare. Put aside the fact that it establishes coverage mandates (you will be forced to buy health insurance somehow). Put aside the fact that it is a colossal power grab for an industry that has been well managed by the states for a long time. Put aside the fact that it will increase taxes. Put aside the fact that it will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for everyone (and they sold this to us originally as being needed to stop the soaring cost of insurance!). Put aside the fact that it will wreak havoc on the tax code, balloon the size of the IRS and increase the size of corporate tax management teams (which will increase consumer costs in all industries). Put aside the fact that this bill is overloaded with earmarks... in a bill that was intended to bring equality in health care. Put aside all of those issues and focus on the one true deception that will be broadcast throughout the weekend and coming weeks: that the Congressional Budget Office has determined that the bill will have a reducing impact the deficit. The lie here is that although the Federal deficit will [...]
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