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    1) The Senate health care bill would hide the true $1.8 trillion cost, cut Medicare benefits for seniors, and increase taxes on all Americans. A survey found 70% of doctors would refuse to participate in the proposed public plan. 2) The bill is over 2,000 pages long and gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services authority to create or define things in the bill over 1,600 times. It would create 8 new taxes and cut over $400 billion from Medicare. 3) It would still leave 24 million Americans uninsured even after overhauling the entire healthcare system and increasing costs for taxpayers, businesses, and consumers.

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    1) The Senate health care bill would hide the true $1.8 trillion cost, cut Medicare benefits for seniors, and increase taxes on all Americans. A survey found 70% of doctors would refuse to participate in the proposed public plan. 2) The bill is over 2,000 pages long and gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services authority to create or define things in the bill over 1,600 times. It would create 8 new taxes and cut over $400 billion from Medicare. 3) It would still leave 24 million Americans uninsured even after overhauling the entire healthcare system and increasing costs for taxpayers, businesses, and consumers.

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    1) The Senate health care bill would hide the true $1.8 trillion cost, cut Medicare benefits for seniors, and increase taxes on all Americans. A survey found 70% of doctors would refuse to participate in the proposed public plan. 2) The bill is over 2,000 pages long and gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services authority to create or define things in the bill over 1,600 times. It would create 8 new taxes and cut over $400 billion from Medicare. 3) It would still leave 24 million Americans uninsured even after overhauling the entire healthcare system and increasing costs for taxpayers, businesses, and consumers.

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    Thanksgiving Health Care Handout

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    1) The Senate health care bill would hide the true $1.8 trillion cost, cut Medicare benefits for seniors, and increase taxes on all Americans. A survey found 70% of doctors would refuse to participate in the proposed public plan. 2) The bill is over 2,000 pages long and gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services authority to create or define things in the bill over 1,600 times. It would create 8 new taxes and cut over $400 billion from Medicare. 3) It would still leave 24 million Americans uninsured even after overhauling the entire healthcare system and increasing costs for taxpayers, businesses, and consumers.

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    SENATE HEALTH CARE BILLS ARE THE REAL

    TURKEYS THIS THANKSGIVING


    Reid’s Senate version of ObamaCare calls for:
    + Hiding the $1.8 Trillion price tag by not
    accounting for actual costs.
    + Major reductions in Medicare benefits to seniors.
    + Major Tax Increases on every American to pay for it all.
    + Reid called for increasing the Medicare payroll tax.
    THE AAPS SURVEYS SHOWS THAT 70% OF DOCTORS
    WOULD REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PUBLIC PLAN
    IN THIS BILL

    SENATE DEMOCRATS BILL ―BY THE NUMBERS‖


    From Sen. Tom Coburn, MD (OK)

    0 — provisions guaranteeing taxpayers do not finance $1.2 billion — cost to taxpayers per page
    abortion $5-$10 billion — additional funding needed for the IRS to
    0 — provisions prohibiting the rationing of health care implement the bill
    0 — number of senators required to enroll in the new $8 billion —taxes levied on uninsured individuals
    government-run plan $25 billion —additional Medicaid mandates placed on
    8 — number of new taxes created in the bill, according to states
    JCT analysis $28 billion —new taxes on employers not providing
    13 — pages in the bill’s table of contents government approved plans
    20.8 – pounds the bill weighs printed out $100 billion — estimated annual fraud in Medicare and
    36 — pages in the CBO estimate of the price tag Medicaid
    70 — government programs authorized by the bill $118 billion —cuts to Medicare Advantage
    1,697 — times the Secy. of HHS is given authority to $465 billion — total cuts to Medicare
    create, determine, or define things in the bill $494 billion — revenue from new taxes/fees levied on
    2,074 — pages in the bill American families and businesses
    3,607 — uses of the word "shall" in the bill $2.5 trillion — cost for full implementation of the legislation
    $6.8 million — cost to taxpayers per word $12 trillion — total U.S. national debt
    24 million — people left without health insurance

    “TALKING TURKEY” (Courtesy: www.PatientsFirst.com)


    1) Harry Reid has had his bill for 6 weeks – shouldn’t the American 6) Expands Medicaid and shifts costs – The Senate bill would force
    people have the same time period to review it and know what the bill 15 million Americans into the flawed Medicaid program, which 4 in 10
    contains? After all, 2,074 pages isn’t exactly light reading. doctors won’t accept because the program
    2) Some treatments could be deemed unnecessary – A government underpays providers. Studies show that expanding the program directly
    task force recently declared that mammograms for women younger than increases costs
    50 were not recommended. The Health and Human Services Secretary for everyone else, since doctors and hospitals must make up for their
    quickly backed away from her task force’s declaration, but under these losses under
    bills unaccountable bureaucracies would have vast new powers to Medicaid by shifting costs to other patients.
    coerce doctors to follow their recommendations. 7) Taxes ―Cadillac‖ and union plans – The new 40 percent tax on
    3) Young people would be required to pay higher premiums – A high-end ―Cadillac‖ health insurance plans (any plan over $8,500 for an
    study by actuarial firm Oliver Wyman found the restrictive new insurance individual or $23,000 for a family) would force companies to shift costs to
    regulations in both the House and Senate bills would increase premiums employees or to reduce the value of the health benefits they provide.
    for young people by 69 percent. 8) Government-forced health care mandates on employers would
    4) Everyone would be forced to purchase costly plans – Requiring require employers to pay up to 8% higher payroll taxes in the House bill
    everyone to purchase expensive health care plans with high premiums – and $750 per employee in the Senate bill. This will result in lower pay
    and not allowing people to choose affordable options that meet their and job losses, especially for low-income workers.
    budgets and needs – would mean lower-cost high-deductible plans 9) Medicare benefits would be slashed by over $400 billion, reducing
    would no longer be available. benefits for seniors and jeopardizing access to care for millions of
    5) Loads of new taxes – Nonpartisan experts at the Congressional others. If these cuts do not materialize, then the bills will dramatically
    Budget Office (CBO) have concluded that new excise taxes on medical increase deficits.
    devices would be passed on to patients, increasing insurance premiums 10) Millions will still be uninsured. Even though the whole health care
    and increasing prices on everything from wheelchairs to pacemakers. system will be turned upside-down, the CBO says at the end of 10 years
    The tax increases in the Senate bill add up to almost $500 billion. there will still be 24 million uninsured Americans under the Senate bill.

    Association of American Physicians & Surgeons

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