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Defend America on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:27:37 AM
By Philip Klein on 7.20.09 @ 12:16PM
Democrats and President Obama have denied that the creation of a
new government-run health care plan would be a Trojan Horse for
single-payer health care, but a new
report by the Lewin Group (comissioned by the Heritage
Foundation) finds that the House Democrats' health care bill
would shift more 83.4 million Americans from private health care
coverage to the government plan. To put that in perspective, that
would mean that nearly half (48.4 percent) would lose their
private health coverage. In all, the government plan would have
103.4 million members once implemented, according to the Lewin
analysis. President Obama has repeated the mantra that anybody
who likes their health insurance plan can keep it, but in reality
about 63 percent of covered Americans get their health care
through their employers, and if employers decide to drop their
current health plans in favor of the government plan, workers
won't have any choice but to sign up.
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/07/20/study-83-mln-would-lose-privat