They have purposely sidestepped the issue of tort reform, and instead of removing the onerous government mandates, including being able to buy insurance across state lines, they have 1300 pages of new mandates. Anyone with a scratch pad and a #2 pencil could take a giant step towards fixing what is wrong with the system in about 5 minutes.
Just wait till the people find out their taxes will go up, costs of goods will increase, and they won't have zip to show for it until 2013. And then they won't be able to find a doctor... Good work suckers!!
Crunch Time for Health Care: Now It’s Up to Us
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"All we have to do is allow insurance companies to compete nationally instead of state-by-state and eliminate all mandates that limit consumer choice. It has been estimated that these simple reforms — which are not part of any of the Democrats’ “reform” bills, for obvious reasons — would reduce health care costs by one-quarter to one-third. Instead of such common-sense reforms, the Dems are proposing Rube Goldberg measures that will make health care more expensive. Instead of eliminating mandates, their measures, including the Baucus bill, increase them — in effect making cheaper health insurance illegal." read the rest
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