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That the current health care proposal offered by President Obama is based off of the Massachusetts reform plan from 2006 put together by GOP hopeful Mitt Romney and both plans rely on the same MIT economist.

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That $1,400 of every vehicle produced by GM is for employee health care which, by the way, is more than it costs for the steel that makes up the actual vehicle. These plans are better than the health care offered to congress (Lynn Rivers whose husband worked for the auto companies used his coverage instead of the coverage offered to her as a congresswoman). Funny how when we subsidize the cost of health care for people making $50,000 - $200,000 per year it's held up as the bastion of capitalism but when we subsidize those who can not otherwise afford health care with taxes it becomes something to loathe.

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Around $14 billion a year is spent on emergency room visits for non emergency situations and that an emergency room visit typically costs around 5 times more than a standard visit. Any money not collected from the patients is paid by the rest of us.

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That Hawaii has had a public health care plan since 1974 and yet their health care costs are the second lowest in the nation despite the fact that almost everything else there cost more (second highest home price in the nation). Also the people of Hawaii have the longest life expectancy of any state (one example: Hawaii has the nation’s highest incident of breast cancer but the nation’s lowest death rate from the disease). Hawaii has a 34% lower rate of outpatient visits to the emergency room.

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That the Presidents current health care plan is eerily similar to the plan proposed by Republicans back in 1993.

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Mitt Romney made the following "socialist" statements regarding health care reform:

"The basics for creating a workable, affordable system that insures everyone and keeps private insurance and personal choice intact are these: First, create incentives for those who can afford insurance to actually purchase it. … Second, create an exchange to help make buying insurance easier for individual—as opposed to corporate—buyers. The exchange lowers premiums. … Third, help the poor buy their own private insurance with a sliding-scale subsidy."

"In my view, the failures we encounter virtually every day are the result of features imposed on the health-care system that have distorted market incentives. …"

"If Americans enjoyed better health and longevity than people in other countries, it might be reasonable to argue that our excessive health-care spending is simply a rational consumer choice. But the life span of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less. Japanese men outlive American men by five years; Frenchmen outlive us by three years. To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner."

"Confronted by the sheer magnitude of the health-care cost problem—our overspending compared to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average is about $750 billion a year—an increasing number of observers recognize that small measures simply will not get the job done."

"I quote Dr. [Atul] Gawande's [New Yorker] article at length because it was a balanced portrait from a moment in time before the debate became politicized. …"