http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

A Snippet:

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

and:

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

I don't think that is the sacrifice Obama was speaking of earlier...

Those are only a very small part of it. I recommend everyone read the above article.

The bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.+1:

Latest Senate Version:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:5:./temp/~c111gaFO4p::

Now for the good aspects of it:

A Snippet:

The provisions that would make Medicaid available to the uninsured and the subsidies for private healthcare are being described as temporary. But some healthcare reform advocates hope they will serve as building blocks to bring about a reform of the healthcare system. Opponents worry they could be the start of the nationalization of healthcare.

But even some conservative analysts, who oppose nationalized healthcare, believe that preventing the newly unemployed from also joining the ranks of the 47 million Americans without health insurance trumps the larger ideological battle over healthcare reform – at least for now.


and

The House stimulus package would also provide a subsidy to help the newly unemployed pay for insurance they had received from their employer. Under a provision known as COBRA (the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act), workers in medium and large businesses have for decades been able to buy it from their employers for up to 18 months after they leave their job. But they must pay 102 percent of the cost of the premium, including the portion paid by their employers.

As a result of the high cost, only about 9 percent of the people eligible for COBRA take advantage of it, according to a report released last week by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit healthcare education and advocacy organization. The stimulus package would provide newly unemployed workers a 65 percent subsidy to help pay their COBRA coverage for up to a year.

(Although I think if you are out of a job you likely cannot afford even that)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0130/p03s03-ussc.html