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Watch what goes down with this House health care reform bill being voted on over the weekend (unless it stalls) because something very tricky is going on. President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill today to personally lobby for votes yet he’s asking legislators to pass a bill that doesn’t even meet his deficit-neutral goal of $900 billion or less over 10 years. I’m very suspicious of why President Obama would now support the bill because it’s now costed out at $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

And how did the bill’s cost jump from $872 billion last week to $1.2 trillion this week (the New York Times claims it’s $1.1 trillion)? I cannot support this bill because of its cost (there are other reasons to oppose the bill)–and keep in mind that I’ve not had health insurance in two and a half years and would technically “benefit” under this bill.

What’s more, there’s word of various amendments being tacked onto this bill late in the game and, as we know from the Medicare Part D nonsense of a few years ago, that type of chicanery is not to be trusted, regardless of which party is pulling the strings.

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