From the Heritage Foundation, an initial analysis of what current health care reform legislation accomplishes:
* The Senate bill breaks President Barack Obama’s promise not to impose new taxes on middle-class Americans.
* The legislation allows feds to micromanage all private health insurance plans.
* The bill creates the health exchange framework that allows for a government-run health plan to overtake the health insurance market.
* Its 20-year costs are more in the $4.9 trillion price range once you cut through the budget gimmicks.
* The Reid health bill leaves businesses, especially small businesses, out of the picture.
* The legislation’s employer and individual mandates use taxes to punish uninsured Americans and companies that hire workers from low-income families.
* The bill’s eight pages regarding abortion policies include language that fosters coverage of elective abortions and diminishes the right of insurers that don’t want to cover elective abortions.
And this is before amendments. More at the link.