The Brady Briefing

Still the same flawed bill.  Like HR 3200 this summer, the new bill is still a government takeover of health care.  Weighing in at 1,990 pages, the new House Democrat health reform bill (HR 3962) seeks to completely rewrite nearly one-sixth of the nation’s economy.  Health care costs will go up.  Taxes will go up.  The bill cuts seniors’ benefits.  It still leaves 18 million people uninsured (that’s bigger than the state of Florida).  And it will force at least 12 million workers out of their private health care plans—for starters.

The $1.3 trillion-plus price tag is just the beginning.  The cost is $1.3 trillion—$260 billion more than HR 3200.  And unlike HR 3200, the latest CBO estimate doesn’t even include the $245 billion “doc fix” Democrats stripped out of the new bill to hide its true costs.

Cuts Medicare for our seniors.  Cuts over $460 billion from Medicare, including hospitals, home health and hospice care.  Includes nearly $240 billion in cuts to the Medicare Advantage program, which is the first choice of poor, rural and minority seniors...

To read Congressman Brady's healthcare fact sheet in its entirety CLICK HERE.