House Energy and Commerce has issued an analysis of the impact of the House health reform proposal. Look up your own area by the name of your Representative. Don't know your Representative? Look that up here.

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This is great. Thanks for the link.

While I preface my comments with the statement that I have not taken a position for or against health care reform (as introduced in HR 3200 and the yet-to-be-seen Senate Finance version), there is a section that would greatly impact many regions, including the city I live in. Section 1156 of HR 3200 includes language that would ban or severely limit physician owned and operated medical centers. As a result, the entire southwest Riverside County region would likely lose a new full-service, general hospital that should be coming online in 2011. Currently, the new Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta (LLUMC-M)is under construction. This new teaching facility will provide our area with over 200 new hospital beds. As an indicator on how bad access is in our area, on a national basis, three hospital beds per thousand population is considered an indicator of adequate and available care. In the United States the average is 2.7 beds per thousand, and in California the rate is 1.9 beds per thousand. Riverside County has 2,880 licensed beds – a ratio of 1.47 per thousand. The southern region of the county has 637 licensed beds – a ratio of 1.05 per thousand. Our area is in desperate need of this new hospital. In California, there are at least five additional hospitals in various stages of construction or purchase that could be impacted. This section needs to be stripped out of HR 3200, or many people throughout the country could lose future access to medical care. Unfortunately, no one seems to be aware of this provision.

You don't actually believe that stuff do you? 98% paid for by a surtax on the "rich"? Reality check, if the rich were taxed at 100% it wouldn't come close to covering the health care plan...also note that medicare and medicaid will be bancrupt in 10 years...there goes "no new taxes on the 95%...". Also, the small business info is way off the mark...the reality is that the "unpaid" 50% will drive small employers to 1099 staff instead of hiring or keeping them as employees...it is cheaper to give them a raise to offset the cost of getting the govt insurance than having to pay more (I won a small business). This is typical political propaganda and I hope you folks are not drinking the kool-aid...and yes, I am an Obama supporter, but one of the millions of centrists watching the left wing of the party kill us.

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