2009.12.14

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Last month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rammed through her version of Obamacare almost a week before the agency in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS), could issue its non-partisan and independent analysis of the legislation. And for supporters of the President's plan, it's a good thing she did. The CMMS report eviscerated almost every single promise the President has made about his health care plan.

According to that report, Obamacare:
1) raises health care costs;
2) causes millions of Americans to lose their current health care coverage;
3) forces millions of Americans to pay fines and still receive no health insurance;
4) causes millions of seniors to lose their Medicare Advantage plans; 4) places millions of Americans on welfare;
5) jeopardizes Medicare access for all seniors; 6) worsens health care access for the poor.

This past Friday, CMMS issued another report, this time on Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) version of Obamacare and the verdict was in many ways worse:
1) health care costs would rise by $234 billion;
2) 17 million Americans would be forced out of their existing health insurance;
3) 19 million Americans would pay $29 billion in taxes/fines and receive no health care in return;
4) 33% of all Medicare Advantage customers would lose their health care plan;
5) 18 million Americans would be put on welfare;
6) the $493 billion in Medicare cuts would force 20% of Medicare providers to become unprofitable thus jeopardizing access to care for all seniors; and
7) the explosion in Medicaid recipients would exacerbate existing health care access problems for the poor.

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The CMMS is the non-partisan agency responsible putting the plans into action. Government health care is a bad deal for everyone.