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Ten reasons public won’t buy Senate health bill

Grace-Marie Turner explains reasons why the public will not like the Senate’s so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  A summary of her article in the Washington Examiner:

1. Exploding costs.

2. Losing your current coverage.

3. Job-killing taxes on employers.

4. Budgetary gimmick — tax now, spend later.

5. Increasing future health care spending.

6. Cost-shifting gimmick.

7. Taxpayer-financed abortion.

8. Twenty-four million uninsured — still.

9. Scarce subsidies.

10. Mandates cause higher premiums and more uninsured.

Read her explanations in the whole article: Ten reasons public won’t buy Senate health care plan.

• Dishonest cost projections for Democrat health bills
• Harry Reid’s “compromise” FEHB public option a bad deal
• Medicare “buy in”: more deficits, higher premiums, & step toward single-payer
• Maine’s “public option” has failed
• Michael Bennet’s health care confusion