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“My goals for health care reform include a strong public option, long-term care reform and reform of the Medicare reimbursement system that has disadvantaged Wisconsin for far too long. I am disappointed that the Finance Committee bill, as written, comes up short on all three fronts. I hope my colleagues on the Finance Committee will change the bill to ensure it is not just health care reform in name only.”

You can imagine who will be showing up, so we all need to overcome the opponents to health care reform.

From Reason: Both parties promise to preserve one of the health care system’s central problems. – the disconnect between payment of a service and consumption of it.

CBO Director’s Preliminary Analysis of the Baucus bill 

Most informative and most helpful – the National Review piece mentioned above

The health-care proposal unveiled yesterday by Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus is fundamentally flawed because — like the other flavors of Obamacare — it tries to expand coverage through coercion and hidden taxes instead of through consumer choice and price competition in a free market.

…. There is no breakthrough miracle cure to be found here: Insurance coverage is expanded with tried-and-true, heavy-handed regulation. Americans who don’t play along will be disciplined by the IRS.

• The Baucus bill tries to expand coverage through mandates and hidden taxes instead of through consumer choice and price competition in a free market. Without transparency and participation of consumers, where in the Baucus bill are the underlying problems dealt with of health care costs in America that are way too high?
• Where in this bill are health care costs (not reimbursements, costs) reduced?
• How do the health insurance co-ops in the bill differ from a public option?
• How can/should the government control spending in its Medicare and Medicaid programs?
• Can you share your thoughts as to what in the Constitution allows the government to require me to purchase health insurance?
• My parents (friends, family) purchase and appreciate the value received from a Medicare Advantage plan. Will this bill allow Medicare Advantage plans to be purchased at costs similar to current plans?
• How can the nation afford $896 billion for a brand new program that trims the number of uninsured by a maximum of 20 to 25 million Americans?
• The CBO, with extensive caveats, claims the Baucus bill will “reduce the deficit” by $46 billion over 10 years. That of course, is due to huge new taxes on small businesses and the insurance industry, which of course are huge new taxes on consumers. Do you support the new taxes prescribed in the bill?

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