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  • $222 Billion, Ho Hum | The Wall Street Journal | January 13, 2010

    A ,Wall Street Journal editorial cites Richard Foster, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who predicts national health spending will rise under the bills by $222 billion over the next 10 years. In other words, Congressional health care legislation will "bend the cost curve" upwards rather than downwards.

  • House Republican Leader: ‘We Can Beat This Bill’ | The New York Times | January 13, 2010

    Representative John Boehner of Ohio commented about the opposition to the current health care legislation in Congress, saying, “The American people are with us.” Representative Boehner thanked members of Congress who voiced their opposition to the legislation over the holiday recess and urged a continuing push in the coming weeks to make the legislative negotiations open to public.

  • Health care reform: 17% expect health care plan to lower costs, 57% expect costs to go up | Rasmussen Poll | January 11, 2010

    The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds 57% of voters saying health care legislation will lead to higher costs and 52% saying it will lead to a decline in the quality of care.

  • The health choices czar | The Wall Street Journal | January 11, 2010

    A Wall Street Journal editorial notes that the Senate/House “secret nonconference committee” on health care legislation is a fight to decide who will regulate insurance “to within an inch of its commercial life.” Both the House and Senate bills are described as blowing up the individual and small-business insurance markets. Also, the House bill calls for a new federal regulator that the Journal states would “obliterate” health care choices.

  • Health Care Overhaul Bill Is 'Hanging by a Thread': Dodd | CNBC | January 11, 2010

    Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told CNBC that health care legislation is “hanging by a thread,” and only one or two votes could determine its fate.

  • U.S. job losses in December dim hopes for quick upswing | The New York Times | January 8, 2010

    Amid the ongoing debate about health care and questions about the job and wages impacts of the health care legislation, the New York Times reports that 85,000 jobs were lost last month in the United States.

  • Culture of corruption produces awful health care bill | Real Clear Politics | January 8, 2010

    Robert Tracinski writes in Real Clear Politics that while usually if major legislation is found to be corrupt it has already been enacted, but “rarely has the corruption of a program been exposed while it is still awaiting final approval in Congress.” The American people are against many of the unprecedented actions taken to pass health care legislation, including the sweetheart deals and special favors. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a liberal Republican who used to support the health care bill, has changed his mind: "it is not reform to push more costs onto states that are already struggling while other states get sweetheart deals. Health care reform, which started as noble and needed legislation, has become a trough of bribes, deals, and loopholes."

  • The Tom DeLay Democrats | The Wall Street Journal | January 6, 2010

    The Wall Street Journal comments that while Democrats “howled” at the tactics used by former Republican House member Tom DeLay… they've managed to create an even more destructive bill, and their tactics are that much worse.” Instead of holding a formal House and Senate conference on health care legislation, select Democratic leaders will now negotiate in secret by themselves. Then, the new bill will presumably be rushed through both chambers with little time for the public to analyze it, or more importantly, little time for the members to understand what they're passing.

  • Broken promise | The Las Vegas Review-Journal | January 6, 2010

    A Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial observes that Americans will be left “in the dark” as Congress works to pass health care legislation without a House-Senate conference. Despite promises of transparency in the legislative process, the negotiations will not be televised on C-SPAN as had been proposed. “Taxpaying voters will be cut off from the decisive debate on a monstrous increase in consumer costs and federal authority.”

  • 52% fear they could be forced to change insurance if health plan passes | Rasmussen Poll | January 4, 2010

    A recent Rasmussen poll reports that 52 percent of Americans fear that they may be required to change insurance plans if the health care reform plan passes. Scott Rasmussen said, “Most of these voters approach the health-care reform debate fearing that they have more to lose than to gain.”