House Health-Care Reform Bill Unveiled

House Democrats introduced their nearly 2,000-page health-care reform plan today.
 
The so-called Affordable Healthcare for America Act (H.R. 3962) refers to "tax," "taxes" or "excise tax" more than 100 times -- and would cost taxpayers $900 billion.
 
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., chairman of the House Republican Conference, said it's just another version of the same old legislation.
 
"It just looks like another freight train of big government with more taxes, more mandates and more spending," he told CNN, "and that's not what the American people want in health-care reform."
 
Republicans and a handful of Democrats were successful in getting a 72-hour waiting period put on the bill.  Pence said that gives lawmakers time to dig deeper into the language.
 
"We can work together in a way that's fiscally responsible," he said, "but a massive new government-run insurance plan paid for with hundreds of billions of dollars in higher taxes is not the answer."
 
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