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National Review Online has some answers: Seniors: Even though they are being told otherwise, seniors will pay the biggest price for reform.  Half of the reason that Sen. Reid got a favorable cost estimate from CBO is because his bill cuts Medicare by $471 billion over the coming decade.  An earlier report from the program’s [...]

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While some senators have vowed not to support Reidcare should it fail to restrict abortion coverage, others won’t support the Senate’s version of health care legislation if it does not contain the “public option.” That’s making for a divided Senate that may be unable to muster the necessary 60 votes to close debate, which opens [...]

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Mike Cannon at the Cato Institute smells gimmickery in the Democrats” health care reform proposals. Principle gimmicks include massive spending for ten years beginning in 2014, and in not calculating the individual and corporate costs of mandating health care insurance. You can read the rest of the story here.

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From The Washington Examiner: . . . on Page 122 of the 2,079-page bill, the secretary [of Health and Human Services] is given the power to establish “the basic per enrollee, per month cost, determined on average actuarial basis, for including coverage under a qualified health care plan.” The HHS secretary would also have the [...]

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Remember this? Specter of future rationing, anyone? From The Washington Post: Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21 and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released Friday by a major medical group. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists [...]

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As National Right to Life has suggested all along, the Baucus (Senate version) bill’s fine print, which only a lawyer could love, will force physicians to ration health care for the elderly. How? Doctors will be forced, for fear of cuts to already meager payments for services rendered under Medicare, to under-prescribe in order to [...]

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Here’s some shocking poll stats from Investors Business Daily: Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. The poll contradicts the claims of not [...]

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As Democrat supporters of the president’s health care initiative return bloodied and bruised from their August “town maul” meetings, they are in for a surprise: Obama, sensing defeat in the air, may change strategy a bit when it comes to the “public option.” According to POLITICO, Obama will address a joint session of Congress on [...]

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From Rasmussen Reports: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey show that 43% of voters nationwide favor the plan working its way through Congress while 53% are opposed. Those figures are virtually identical to results from two weeks ago. As has been true since the debate began, those opposed to the congressional overhaul feel more [...]

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