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David Corry, Don Bain, Maria Mellick, Alan Eason, Richard Hambly, Anthony Franklin, Heather Harman, David Harrison

The available evidence does not indicate that a public plan modeledon Medicare could provide health care comparable to that offered byexisting private plans, let alone at a lower cost. Contrary toproponents' claims, a public plan could not achieve cost savings orsubstantially reduce the number of uninsured without substantiallyreducing the quality and access to health care that Americanscurrently enjoy.

You see is an incredible amount of frustration in terms of the political process. and you look, i like citing historical facts and figures to buffer my arguments, but ryan lin in "the new yorker" cited yale professor hacker. since 1995, house republicans moved roughly six times to the right than house democrats moved to the left. and theres a sense, im sure, if wrr at the bargaining table here is what republicans have asked for over and over again, not to mention the absolute insanity of the cau...