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Conroe - One year and a blizzard of new bureaucracy later, little the President promised the public about his massive national health care plan has materialized.
The Congressional Budget Office confirmed the law will cost half a trillion dollars more than represented. The President's own health care secretary admitted the White House double-counted savings in the bill to mask its deficits and Medicare's chief actuary said at least 7 million seniors will lose their Medicare Advantage plans.
Most Americans face higher health care costs, many businesses are hinting they may be forced to drop health care coverage for their workers, fewer doctors are seeing Medicare patients and over 1,000 health plan sponsors -- such as unions -- that cover over 2 million Americans have received ObamaCare waivers because this poorly-written law is proving unworkable in practice.
Especially embarrassing are published reports that only three percent of Americans with pre-existing illnesses have been helped by the bill - a key selling point by congressional Democrats and the President. The Congressional Budget Office also estimates ObamaCare will result in the loss of more than 800,000 jobs over the next 10 years.
"Conceived in a backroom and rushed to a vote, this is an ugly bill that's that's only grown uglier in the light of day," said Texas Republican Congressman Kevin Brady, whose chart unveiled the law's bewildering complexity. "Nearly every week the American public learns of another ObamaCare promise that won't be met. The good news is that it's not too late to start over with common sense health care reforms that actually lower costs for families and make it more affordable for businesses to offer to their workers."
Brady, a senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee and the top Republican in Congress on the Joint Economic Committee, has co-sponsored legislation to repeal and replace the new national health care law. He is leading legislation to save states from incurring costs to implement the bill until the U.S. Supreme Court has determined if the new individual health care mandate is constitutional. Federal courts have split over the constitutionality of the measure and governors of both parties are protesting the high costs of complying with all the federal mandates.
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