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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was out yesterday with an analysis of the main health care reform legislation plan under consideration in Congress and things do not look good for President Obama and Congressional Democrats.

“The office concluded that a plan by the committee’s Democratic leaders, Senators Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, would reduce the number of uninsured only by a net 16 million people. Even if the bill became law, the budget office said, 36 million people would remain uninsured in 2017.”

If that’s the best health care reform advocates can achieve with an estimated $1 trillion in spending over 10 years, then count me out. What’s more, the article states that Dems are seriously considering new taxes to pay for their plan, which would come in the form of a tax on soda pop or a national value-added tax. Again, count me out. To get me to support a new tax of any kind, the resulting health care plan would have to cover everyone or it’s simply not worth doing.

Stay tuned.

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