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All four plans include more spending and potentially reduced access by patients to treatment.  Commentators are predicting quick action by the Democratic Congress and Presidency in 2009 on this.<ref>http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081203/OPINION/812030387/1049/OPINION</ref>

All four plans include more spending and potentially reduced access by patients to treatment.  Commentators are predicting quick action by the Democratic Congress and Presidency in 2009 on this.<ref>http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081203/OPINION/812030387/1049/OPINION</ref>

Health care constitutes one-seventh of the economy, and there are 46 million uninsured residents of America.  But millions of those are uninsured by choice, or uninsured only temporarily, or in the country illegally.<ref>A similar claim that there are 6.5 uninsured Californians was described as "hogwash.  First, the study the governor quotes DOES NOT say that there are 6 1/2 million Californians without health insurance.  It says that 6.5 million Californians don’t have health insurance AT SOME POINT DURING THE YEAR.  But 45% of those Californians have it within four months.  So 45 percent of these people are not chronically uninsured individuals – they’re people changing jobs.  And of those 6.5 million – 45 percent of whom WILL HAVE health insurance within four months — 2 ½ million are illegal aliens; 2 million earn over $50,000 per year, 1 million are already eligible for MediCal or Healthy Families.[http://blog.tommcclintock.com/2008/09/26/mcclintock-on-health-care/]</ref>  The real [[liberal]] motivation to change health care, which was the first priority of [[Hillary Clinton]] when her president took office back in 1993, is to effect social change.  [[Abortion]] and the [[homosexual agenda]] can be advanced under the banner of health care reform in a way that would never pass otherwise.

Health care constitutes one-seventh of the economy, and there are 46 million uninsured residents of America.  But millions of those are uninsured by choice, or uninsured only temporarily, or in the country illegally.<ref>A similar claim that there are 6.5 uninsured Californians was described as "hogwash.  First, the study the governor quotes DOES NOT say that there are 6 1/2 million Californians without health insurance.  It says that 6.5 million Californians don’t have health insurance AT SOME POINT DURING THE YEAR.  But 45% of those Californians have it within four months.  So 45 percent of these people are not chronically uninsured individuals – they’re people changing jobs.  And of those 6.5 million – 45 percent of whom WILL HAVE health insurance within four months — 2 ½ million are illegal aliens; 2 million earn over $50,000 per year, 1 million are already eligible for MediCal or Healthy Families.[http://blog.tommcclintock.com/2008/09/26/mcclintock-on-health-care/]</ref>  The real [[liberal]] motivation to change health care, which was the first priority of [[Hillary Clinton]] when her president took office back in 1993, is to effect social change.  Greater government control, [[abortion]] and the [[homosexual agenda]] can be advanced under the banner of health care reform in a way that would never pass otherwise.

None of the proposed plans are "single payer," at least not initially and publicly so.  "[T]his option has been declared 'off the table' by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who's among those leading the charge for health-care reform in America.  Top Democrats who will be deciding policy in America in 2009, including Baucus and President-elect Barack Obama, say single-payer is 'not politically feasible,' because the public won't strongly support it."<ref name="Single Payer">http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/03/state/80st_081203_column.txt</ref>  The biggest supporter of "single payer" was Michigan Democrat John Conyers,<ref name="Single Payer"/> but he lost a key committee chairmanship for the new Congress in 2009.  But note that Baucus's approach does provided for a taxpayer-subsidized government plan to "compete" with private plans, and supporters of this approach may intend for the taxpayer-subsidized plan to squeeze out the private plans over time in order to become a "single payer."

None of the proposed plans are "single payer," at least not initially and publicly so.  "[T]his option has been declared 'off the table' by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who's among those leading the charge for health-care reform in America.  Top Democrats who will be deciding policy in America in 2009, including Baucus and President-elect Barack Obama, say single-payer is 'not politically feasible,' because the public won't strongly support it."<ref name="Single Payer">http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/03/state/80st_081203_column.txt</ref>  The biggest supporter of "single payer" was Michigan Democrat John Conyers,<ref name="Single Payer"/> but he lost a key committee chairmanship for the new Congress in 2009.  But note that Baucus's approach does provided for a taxpayer-subsidized government plan to "compete" with private plans, and supporters of this approach may intend for the taxpayer-subsidized plan to squeeze out the private plans over time in order to become a "single payer."