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The available evidence does not indicate that a public plan modeledon Medicare could provide health care comparable to that offered byexisting private plans, let alone at a lower cost. Contrary toproponents' claims, a public plan could not achieve cost savings orsubstantially reduce the number of uninsured without substantiallyreducing the quality and access to health care that Americanscurrently enjoy.
Both the House health care reform bill (H.R. 3200) and the bill authored by Senator Baucus would increase government spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, even afterassuming massive "savings" from cutting waste and inefficiency inMedicare and Medicaid. If lawmakers can easily cut nearly $1trillion in waste from Medicare and Medicaid over the next 20years, they should do so to reduce Medicare's $36 trillion unfundedobligation, not to fund massive new health care benefits.
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