Biggest One Yet: Pelosi Unveils 1,990 Page Health Care Bill That Only Costs $894 Billion

And the liberals are all treating this bill like it’s some big concession because the public option in it allows doctors and hospitals to “negotiate” their rates with the government instead of the government just telling them what they can charge.
But if you think that will last for long once the bill is passed I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a $894 billion health care bill Thursday that would extend coverage to 36 million Americans through a mix of subsidies, tax incentives and penalties on individuals and small businesses, but the final package falls short of the more liberal vision of a public health insurance option.
Party leaders would like to start debate on the bill next week and hope to have a final vote before Veteran’s Day on Nov. 11.
The long-awaited introduction of a combined House health care bill produced few major surprises. After weeks of public hand-wringing, leaders – and party liberals – bowed to political reality by allowing doctors and hospitals to negotiate their rates with the government under the public plans.
Unveiling the bill at the Capitol, Pelosi said the bill would meet the goals of “affordability of the middle class, security for our seniors, responsibility to our children. It reduces the deficit, meets President Obama’s call to keep the costs under $900 billion over 10 years and it insures 36 million more Americans.”
“The bill is fiscally sound, will not add one dime to deficit as it expands coverage, implements key insurance reforms and promotes prevention and wellness across the health system,” Pelosi said.

You can read the entire 1,990 page monster bill by clicking here.
Pelosi claims that the bill “will not add one dime to the deficit” but per an email from House Republican staff this bill has at least $200 billion in spending that’s not paid for with spending cuts. And who knows what other accounting tricks are being used in the bill to give the appearance of solvency and fiscal responsibility?
The simple point here is that this bill does nothing to solve our health care problem, which in a nutshell is affordability. Shifting the burden for paying for health care from the employer-based system we have now to a government-based system isn’t going to solve the problem with health care costs spiraling out of control. As long as we have third party payers in the health care markets, whether the third parties be employers or the government, health care costs will continue to rise because there will be no market forces to keep prices in check.
The government will attempt to control costs, of course, by dictating to doctors what they can charge and rationing our access to care. But those things are harmful to our quality of care and can really only go so far in actually controlling expenses.
What we need is to empower individuals so that they can afford to buy their own health care, and we can do that by easing government interference in the health care markets. End insurance mandates. Allow Americans to buy health insurance across state lines.
The solution to health care lays with making people independent. Not making them dependent on the government and taxing/fining the hell out of them for the privilege.