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Over the weekend the American Senate voted to debate the most recent version of President Obama’s healthcare bill.  Amid discussion of various Senators being bought off to support the bill with promises of increased federal funding for their States there are some very real issues here for the American people.

Many commentators point out that the cost of implementing Obamacare has been grossly underestimated and predict that rather than the promised cost of around $850 billon the final figure is more likely to be over $2.5 trillion over the first 10 years.  This money can only come from the American tax payer and I am willing to bet that if this bill is passed the estimated costs will only rise as implementation gets closer.

The Heritage Foundation in this excellent article point out what they consider to be the five main flaws of the Healthcare bill and conclude with a quote from the Dean of the Harvard medical school from an article in the Wall Street Journal:

So the majority of our representatives may congratulate themselves on reducing the number of uninsured, while quietly understanding this can only be the first step of a multiyear process to more drastically change the organization and funding of health care in America. I have met many people for whom this strategy is conscious and explicit.

We should not be making public policy in such a crucial area by keeping the electorate ignorant of the actual road ahead.