hypocritexposer
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The package has already been exposed as a Trojan Horse, so to speak, for the Democrats' birth control policies, with its $200 million for contraceptives, which has since suffered legislative interruptus. But on the health front, there are other, less public, acts of indecency underway. According to former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, this package, properly understood, is really the Democrats' opening salvo on health-care reform. If Republicans surrender this opportunity to defeat this package, or at the very least articulate an opposing viewpoint, they will be handing the Democrats a major victory in their efforts to re-make America's health care system and drive it down the path of increased government intervention.
The consequences of the bill's health provisions will be two-fold: First, it will increase subsidies for health coverage, and, second, it will give government more control over the use of a variety of technologies used by health care professionals.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/074nsbzs.asp