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WASHINGTON -- President Obama repeatedly states two things about his national healthcare initiative that are not true: First, that we cannot have truly long-term economic growth until we replace the present healthcare system with an entirely new government-imposed one. Second, that the plan will end the explosion in healthcare costs.
In fact, there have been periods in our county's economic history when we've experienced relatively long-term growth with the healthcare system we have now. The most recent being the nearly 25 years of growth that followed the 1981-1982 recession (with a shallow slide in the early 1990s) when the Dow...
Obama's Ill-Thought-Out Healthcare Plan
The additional taxes that will be forced on small businesses with this moronic plan, which includes billions in dumbocrud pork, will cost thousands more jobs as these small businesses, many that are already struggling, will simply close.
MN is a state that is heavily invested in the medical industry and literally thousands of jobs will be lost, including in your state! As an example, the Mayo Clinic facility there is already losing money and they will simply pull out of AZ. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of MN just laid off 300 people.
For Christ's sake the Congressional budget office even says it's not sustainable!
Why don't you think for yourself for once and get educated on...