Some Washington politicians are intent on passing a compromise between House Bill H.R. 3962 and Senate Bill H.R. 3590.

This politician-defined and -run bureaucratic health care behemoth would levy massive taxes and fees; destroy our insurance industry, our drug industry and our economy; and result in inferior, rationed health care. Indeed, it would insert more than 70 committees, commissions, commissioners, agencies, administrations, studies, pilot programs and other disjointed entities between our health care providers and us. And the president appoints the key decision-makers, who can continuously change the rules, benefits, taxes, fees and premiums at will.

Nothing prevents perpetual growth of this giant bureaucracy that can issue contracts without complying with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) or the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA), which Congress created to prevent fraud, waste and abuse.

Furthermore, abortions will be accommodated (H.R. 3962, Sec. 258, 259, 265, and H.R. 3590, Sec. 1303), and H.R. 3962, Sec. 302, permits illegal aliens to receive the benefits.

Commercial health insurance enterprises must control costs and comply with massive regulations or go out of business, but the government has no such restrictions. It makes the rules and can print money to stay in business.

Clearly, the government would run this program just like it runs Medicaid and Medicare: deeply into debt until it is forced to raise taxes or cut expenses — i.e. ration health care. In fact, H.R. 3962, Section 101, states: “the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums or establishing waiting lists.”

Politicians present the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) preliminary subject-to-change cost figures as firm numbers and bury the true costs by picking the 2010-2019 time frame, during which the government will be collecting taxes and fees for the full 10 years while paying out benefits for only the last six years.

Furthermore, the CBO shows that the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program (H.R. 3962, Section 2581), reduces the deficit by $102 billion. Why? Because during 2010-2019, the government collects 10 years of premiums at $123.1 billion and pays out only four years of benefits at $20 billion, plus $1.5 billion in other costs.

The advertised 2010-2019 cost of any resulting bill will likely be about $850 billion to meet President Obama's $1 trillion ceiling, when it would supposedly cost (10 ÷ 6) x $850 billion, or about $1.4 trillion over a true 10-year period.

However, the actual total cost is about $2.5 trillion (nearly three times $850 billion) after adding $500-plus billion in Medicare/Medicaid fees to health care providers, advertised as Medicare cuts in the bill, and another $590 billion for Health Insurance Exchange subsidies and Public Option payments. Look for Congress to hide these additional dollars in new bills — e.g. H.R. 3961.

Politicians can conveniently claim how “fiscally sound” this program is during the 2010 and 2012 election years because significant outlays will not yet have begun.

Can the government that has accumulated more than $59 trillion in Medicare/Medicaid debt, responsibly run the entire health care system? No!

Please ask your congressional representatives and senators to vote against the congressional health care bill. We can improve our health care system, without big government, by overhauling existing regulations, providing real tax incentives for health savings accounts and removing ludicrous taxes and fees.