A few nuts and bolts of it from Glenn Beck for anyone out there looking for the truth in this plan…

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Finally we’ve got real health reform, in the Baucus plan. Soon everyone will have health insurance.

Actually, no. The Baucus plan will only insure about 1/3 of those without insurance now. But luckily, though, it makes pretty much everybody pay more.

The plan doesn’t cost us anything. It’s deficit-neutral.
Deficit-neutral doesn’t mean it doesn’t cost anything. It just means that they’re projecting that the tax hikes and the new fees will cover the new costs. For example, if I make $50,000 a year and I spend every dime of it on a new car, I’m deficit-neutral. I also don’t have a house, clothes or food, but I’m deficit-neutral.

The CBO said deficit-neutral.
And it comes from a bunch of accounting tricks. For example, the period covered in the analysis is 2010 to 2019, but the plan’s not going to be fully implemented until 2015. That’s ten years of taxes to pay for five years of healthcare.

Yeah, well, the taxe is on the rich.
That is a concern, but that’s not because (the rich) will be shouldering the load on these fees. No, no. This one is target directed at the people that President Obama said he would never, ever, ever go after. Wall Street Journal has done an analysis on this from the numbers on the joint commission on taxation of which Max Baucus is a member, by the way. They found that 87% of the burden would fall on Americans making less than $200,000 and more than half on those earning under $100,000.

Okay. So we all have to pay a little bit more.
The plan rises at the rate of 8% per year, more than double the growth rate of the 1990s. All of this assumes huge cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates.
I’ll summarize; your doctors will make half as much (as they did) in 2025. So do you think they’re sticking around? Do you really think that congress won’t step in later to change this policy and rack up the bill even higher? Because if they don’t, you won’t have any doctors left by 2025.

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