From: Richard W. on
You Should Know About Harry Reid's Government-Run Health Care Experiment
1. $493 Billion In Tax Increases On Health Insurance, Medical
Innovation, Payroll And Small Businesses Would Pay For The Bill. (Douglas W.
Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

2. Americans Won't See Benefits Of This Health Care Experiment Until
2014, But They Start Paying For It In 2010. (Page 13, Douglas W. Elmendorf,
Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

3. Reid's Bill Allegedly Reduces The Deficit By $130 Billion In Ten
Years, But The Obama-Reid-Pelosi Spending Agenda Produced Deficit Of $176
Billion Last Month Alone. (Table 3, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator
Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

4. $465 Billion In Medicare And Medicaid Cuts Would Pay For Two New
Unsustainable Entitlements. (Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry
Reid, 11/18/09)

5. Health Care Costs For The Federal Government - And Your Family -
Would Increase, Not Decrease. (Page 16, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To
Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)

6. A New Medicare Commission Of Unelected Bureaucrats Would Ration
Care. (Sec. 3403, H.R. 3590, Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute,
"Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act," Introduced 11/18/09)

7. The "Doc Fix" Provision That Would Add $250 Billion To The Deficit
Is Not Included In The Democrats' List Price For Their Health Care
Experiment. (Page 17, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To Senator Harry Reid,
11/18/09)

8. Taxpayer Dollars Would Fund Abortions. (Sec. 1303(a), H.R. 3590,
Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute, "Patient Protection And Affordable
Care Act," Introduced 11/18/09)

9. A New Entitlement Program For Long-Term Care That One Democrat
Senator Called "A Ponzi Scheme" Would Be Created. (Douglas W. Elmendorf,
Letter To Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09; Shailagh Murray & Lori Montgomery,
"Centrists Unsure About Reid's Public Option," The Washington Post,
10/28/09)

10. States Burdened With $25 Billion In Unfunded Mandates From Medicaid That
Would Force Them To Increase Taxes. (Page 7, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Letter To
Senator Harry Reid, 11/18/09)