It’s important to note that many of the same defenses of this plan where used in defense of medicare as well, namely in reference to concerns about price controls. It won’t happen, they said. It did happen. I just can’t take any of them at face value.

If you don’t mind giving up your right to select your doctor/hospital/medicine, then surely you will be outraged at the huge hit this will take on your wallet!
Every government health care program (i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP) has busted every budget estimate ever made for them.
FreedomWorks has posed 3 questions every citizen should make their representative answer on ObamaCare:

1. The Congressional Budget Office has said the proposed government takeover of health care could cost $1.6 trillion. Other estimates put the cost much higher. Various officials have proposed raising taxes on soda and alcohol, a higher payroll tax, taxing current employer-provided health plans, and even a new national sales tax to fund this massive government program. Do you support any of these middle-class tax hikes to fund government-run health care? If not, how would you pay for it?

2.Under Obama’s plan, can you guarantee that I would get to keep my current health care plan and doctor? President Obama himself has actually said both “yes” and “no” to this question.

3. Provisions in the Obama plan call for “comparative effectiveness research” to be used to decrease costs. “Savings” are achieved by denying treatments based on criteria such as cost, a patient’s health and/or a patient’s age. Isn’t this health care rationing? Can you guarantee that a new government plan will not deny care to individuals in order to control costs?

“We want to put every Member of Congress on the record. What is their understanding of the Obama health care plan? How will it effect how patients get treatment and how will it impact your pocket book?

We don’t have much time to waste, since Obama wants to have a bill on his desk within a matter of weeks! Please download the Health Care Action Kit and bring copies with you to town hall meetings, district office visits and the taxpayer tea parties occurring in your area. Help us build opposition to the takeover of our health care system, and send shock waves back to Washington, D.C. with a message that we refuse to become a European-style welfare state.

July 4th is a time to remember who we are as a people, and what makes us special: our freedom. Let’s re-dedicate ourselves to that principle and work together to defend our freedom this Independence Day by derailing the plan to give the federal government control over our health care.”
This comes from Dick Armey of FreedomWorks
http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/three-questions-politicians-must-answer-before-the

This proposed legislation is about putting private health insurers out of business and turning our health care system into something like England’s or Canada’s, where people can’t get state of the art medicine or treatments, where surgery has waiting lists of months or years, and where anyone who can afford to comes here for any life-and-death procedure, or any quality of life procedure which can be done here in weeks rather than waiting months or years at home.

Please take the time to contact all of your representatives and tell them this is NOT what you want.