An even more disturbing note is that the CBO numbers are vastly understated. First, ObamaCare is a continuation of failed policy that caused the problem. There is direct correlation between third party payors (single or multiple) and price raises. Prices will rise faster. Second, the CBO numbers calculate 'cost' in terms of the government, not the People. For example, costs to the taxpayers in increased taxes are not used as a cost but revenue that offsets what the CBO defines as 'cost'. All in all, the People are getting more money taken away from them for expenses that continually exceed the amount taken away..destroying the currency and tax base.

There has been a velvet coup d'etat and Americans have not noticed or do not seem to care, they are being caressed by empty promises and blatant lies.

I confess, the last line made me laugh out loud. Obama didn't bankrupt America, he inherited a bankrupted America from George W. Bush, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the shenanigans of Wall Street. Or is it so convenient to forget the worst financial crisis since the Depression?

The government could use some "Lean Thinking" (Womack and Jones). Maybe a start with "The Goal" (Goldratt). Michael talks about using accurate metrics to determine health care costs...and he is spot on. Taxes are a liability to citizens AND the government. Less money to spend (or save) is a liability. The same is spoken of in "The Goal" where traditional industry counts inventory as an asset. In reality, inventory isn't making anyone any money any more than this health care plan will produce jobs (not a gov't responsibility) or reduce cost because of the "creative" accounting (or lies).

Only those zealots who believe everything that comes out of the mouth of our LIChief,accept the untruths that Obama has been spewing since his campaign for the Presidency. How can we count the lies he and his "capos" in the House and Senate have been regurgitating to ram their brand of socialism and redistribution of wealth? It would take a calculator to keep count of the lies, and a sleuth to find a truth in all they have disgorged!

Bull crap is all it is!

The so-called health care bill has nothing to do with health care, but has everything to do with blatant Socialism.

Why haven’t the people who believe this is good for the country seen the true reason for this bill? Barrack Obama, Max Baucus, Maxine Waters, et al., ad infinitum, ad nausea socialist liberals have been saying it for years, it is simply the "redistribution of wealth."

How is it redistribution of wealth you might ask? Well first of all, the majorities of young adults don’t visit doctors and can expect good health until they are in their late 30's to early 40's.

So by forcing, unwillingly, Each and Every Citizen of this once Free and Democratic country to buy insurance or be fined or imprisoned, the government “redistributes” those people earnings into a large pool of monies available for everyone else to utilize. Now, more money will be available for those who are illegal, those who are indolent, those who choice to live off the system, those who choose to not further themselves through study, industry, or education, and all the remaining welfare wards this country continues to ensure festers and grows.

When will these people understand that every person is different; every person has their own behaviors, cognitions, personalities, traits and temperaments, good and bad?

Some people chose to pursue, through hard-work, lengthy study, and grit and determination, to better themselves, their families, and their lives; while others chose not to pursue advanced education, prefer not to work harder, prefer to live pedestrian lives, and prefer the easy, less "stressful" lives, and that’s fine is they so chose.

Socialists, like our president and his liberal followers, believes that it is not that these people mentioned chose not to do certain things to better themselves, but that these people who have not worked hard, have not decided to pursue advance education, who have not decided to bust their butts all their lives to make something of themselves and provide better for their families, is because the "successful" in America somehow "hold them down," through persecution of the minority and the withholding of vital information to ensure these people never attain success in their lives. Again I say, Bull Crap!

This mentality is why we have Socialists, Communists, and Fascists. They believe there is a Capitalist conspiracy and a “rich man next door” plotting to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.

How can it have something to do with those "rich” people who busted their butts, sacrificed many years of their lives studying and working, sacrificed time with friends and family, were frugal and saved, invested wisely and didn't get greedy? Impossible says the Socialists American Liberals!

When will they understand there will always be poor, lazy people, there will always be those who don't want to work harder, and there are those whose personalities show, or will ever show, motivation to better themselves.

But what many of these people in America now understand is that why should I work harder, why should I study and sacrifice time with friends and family, why should I do anything when Mother America will provide for me. After all, I get extended welfare benefits, never ending unemployment assistance, food stamps, free help with my mortgage, help with buying a new car, and now low and behold, free education, All At The Expense of those Who SACRIFICED and were Much More Industrious in life.

Liberal socialists in our country are psychologically deficient and pathologically impaired. They are extreme dependent personalities with egotistical prejudice. Until we change the mentality of our people and the government's ideology and philosophy about the psychology of people and difference in each ones mentality, we will continue our steps towards socialism and end up in communism within the next century.

Not everyone can be a doctor, a lawyer, a psychologist, an engineer, or thank God, a politician. Some of us will be laborers, mechanics, receptionists, farm hands, and janitors, and some will be poor; and that’s fine.

But to each his or her own, the fruits of his or her own labors. Until we get this truism, we will end up a Communist state in the near future.

Ironically, my point above made in this newest FOX News Article I just came across.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/31/money-good-habits-doesnt-change-lives/

Bob W; As a retired United States Marine, you just hit the bulls-eye on everyone of you points!

I was in Australia last year and was picked up by a cabbie at the airport. I've been to Australia many times before so on the way to the hotel we were just conversing about life in general. I asked the cabbie how he liked his job; he replied, "This is my second job, I have to work two jobs in order to keep up with the taxes so the lazy that are on the dole can live a comfortable life without having to work!"

The above sounds exactly like the path America is heading! We have to hold people responsible for their actions, get them off their butts and start working vice holding out a hand!

The Medicare doctor pay adjustment was created to fool the CBO. Just like the pretend Medicare cut of $500+ billion. By leaving out doctor costs AGAIN, they fooled their minions again. CBO cost estimates like this ought to be attacked mercilessly. Americans know that all this new coverage will cost more and hurt quality.

It doesn't matter what the O'man does, his goal is to destroy America. He is a Muslim and will do what he does to desroy this country.