Here are just a few of those creations: a Health Choices Administration (a new independent agency in the executive branch of the government, headed by a health choices commissioner), a Health Benefits Advisory Committee, a Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund, a special inspector general for the Health Insurance Exchange, a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, a Public Health Workforce Corps, a Task Force on Clinical Preventive Services and a school-based Health Clinic Program.

While the plan has been titled "Affordable," and marketed as budget-neutral, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), noted in its July 17 letter to the House Ways and Means Committee that its estimated cost is more than $1,000,000,000,000 (that's 1 trillion dollars, or a million, million dollars) over 10 years (2010-2019). According to the CBO, this cost would be offset by savings in Medicare and by increasing "federal revenues by about $583 billion." There is only one way to increase federal revenues -- to increase taxes, which takes money out of your pocket and puts it in the government's coffers.

Instead of focusing on universal access to health care, this bill throws out a large trawl net that sweeps across an enormous area far beyond health-care access to include personal decisions and social structure.

For example, included in H.R. 3200: "The entity shall provide for culturally and linguistically appropriate communication and health services." It refers to ''shared decision making ... a collaborative process between patient and clinician that engages the patient in decision making, provides patients with information about trade-offs among treatment options, and facilitates the incorporation of patient preferences and values into the medical plan."

It notes nurse home-visitation services will be based upon evidence, that such services are effective in areas including, "increasing birth intervals between pregnancies. ... Increasing economic self-sufficiency, employment advancement, school-readiness, and educational achievement, or reducing dependence on public assistance.''

These excerpts show that the result will not simply be universal access, but universal intrusion by government.

I hope our representatives will understand, when they get back to Washington after their summer break, that we believe in health-care "reform," but the current proposal is a bunch of rot.

Right now, President Obama might be happy to share a Coke and a smile with supporters of his plan, but the number of people who fit this description is dwindling faster than ice melts in a glass on a hot Georgia day, and we still have more than half of August left.