bill in the "help" committee -- health, education, labor, and pensions -- or the draft bill crate creteed by the senior senators from massachusetts and connecticut -- that's the piece of legislation we're talking about -- would cost $1 trillion over the course of 10 years. but only would reduce the number of uninsured by 16 million people. so $1 trillion would bring 16 million people into the insured status. for those that would be newly covered, the cost would be $65,185 per person. for ten years of coverage. that's only a preliminary estimate for part of the plan. of course, a preliminary estimate does not tell the whole story. what would it cost to cover the remaining 31 million who are thought not to have insurance? or the millions who would be displaced from current private coverage with their employer into the public plan? remember, indicated that private employers would have no incentive to keep those people on their own rolls when it would be much cheaper to have them go to the so-called government option. the bill also provides subsidies for families whose incomes reach 500% of t

sally there we would prohibit the federal government from practicing medicine or we are going to crete this maisel where they can like medicare is today with the same language. and so, i think the vote is going to speak for itself. were reserving the right for this board to dictate to the american providers what they will and won't do. understand he denied that the fact is that is what is going to happen because that is what is happening today. that is what is happening with medicaid programs today. they tell them what they can in cantu, so if we want the government to make those decisions, to ignore the art of medicine, to ignore the personal nature of medicine then we will defeat this amendment. but if we really want to benefit from this agency, and get the information out there, and then allow the physicians, using their gray hair, using their training, using their experience and also most importantly, using the knowledge of the individual patient. not something on a chart that says, here's the best way, but what about the individual patient? could we save money? yeah. we have the s