I think anyone with an opinion on politics has made up their mind on whether they are going to support this bill or not, regardless of what's in it. This article does a good job of dealing in facts that I think many people prefer to ignore.

The best and most rigorous cost analysis was recently released by the insurer WellPoint, which mined its actuarial data in various regional markets to model the Senate bill. WellPoint found that a healthy 25-year-old in Milwaukee buying coverage on the individual market will see his costs rise by 178%. A small business based in Richmond with eight employees in average health will see a 23% increase. Insurance costs for a 40-year-old family with two kids living in Indianapolis will pay 106% more. And on and on.

These increases are solely the result of ObamaCareabove and far beyond the status quobecause its strict restrictions on underwriting and risk-pooling would distort insurance markets.

Unnoticed by the press corps, the Congressional Budget Office argued recently that the Senate bill would so "substantially reduce flexibility in terms of the types, prices, and number of private sellers of health insurance" that companies like WellPoint might need to "be considered part of the federal budget."

With so large a chunk of the economy and medical practice itself in Washington's hands, quality will decline. Ultimately, "our capacity to innovate and develop new therapies would suffer most of all," as Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier recently wrote in our pages. Take the $2 billion annual taxrising to $3 billion in 2018that will be leveled against medical device makers, among the most innovative U.S. industries. Democrats believe that more advanced health technologies like MRI machines and drug-coated stents are driving costs too high, though patients and their physicians might disagree.

"Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government"

AHAHAHAHAHA LOL LOL LOL ROFLMAO...

Oh shit that Barry guy is funny, he is right about transparency however. Just look at Nebraska's representative he SOLD HIS VOTE right out in the open for all to see so did Dodd. Now that is what I call TRANSPARENCY just screw your constuants right out in the open for all to see...

2010 baby 2010...

#1 | Posted by JOE at 2009-12-22 10:04 AM

It should be about what is in the bill, unfortunately the Bastards elected to supposedly represent their constituents have their votes up FOR SALE to the highest bidder...

spent just 17 days

It's the only thing righties have been talking about since June.