Especially if you live in Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, or Nebraska. Kyl and McCain should be safe, but give them a ring of encouragement.

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Here is the latest update from Patients First:

Dear Patients First supporter,

After six weeks of closed door sessions and backroom deals, Harry Reid has finally released his massive 2,074 page health care bill. As expected, the Reid bill imposes a government-run health care system that replaces your current health care options with more expensive, lower quality, government-defined care.

Upon release, Leader Reid pointed to the Congressional Budget Office's projection that the bill will cost $848 billion and reduce the deficit by $130 billion. Unfortunately, both the projected cost and the savings are deceiving. How are we going to create a new entitlement program that will insure 31 million people and claim it will SAVE us money?! This is classic Washington deception.

Call your Senator today to tell them to vote against cloture on the motion to proceed. The vote will likely take place this Saturday and your Senator needs to hear from you. Time is of the essence!

While we are just beginning to read through the Reid bill, the initial assessment is worrisome:

• Similar to the House bill, the Reid bill relies heavily on budget gimmicks to bring down the enormous cost of this government takeover. One glaring gimmick is that spending doesn't really begin until 2014 (pushed back another 6 months from the last Senate bill--some way to address a crisis), with costs escalating dramatically in the later years ($196 billion in 2019 alone!). The fully phased in 10-year cost is about $2.5 trillion.

• The so-called "doc fix" provision - needed to maintain the already-low number of physicians who accept Medicare from dwindling even more - is left out of the bill. Despite being a crucial part of any health reform effort, the $247 billion provision was taken out to promote the charade that this bill will not add billions to the deficit.

• The inclusion of yet another new entitlement program, a long-term care insurance program called the CLASS Act supposedly reduced the deficit! That's right, a brand new entitlement program. They count the 10-year revenues of $72 billion as deficit reduction even though it will cost far more than it raises once benefits start being collected.

• Even without the gimmicks, CBO is notoriously inaccurate when predicting what entitlements will cost (e.g., Medicare's actual cost was more than 10 times its original price tag). So even if the $848 billion number were honest, it's safe to assume the real cost will be several trillion, based on the experience with every previous Washington health care program.

• Failing to propose any serious reforms that control costs, the bill also fails its other main goal by leaving 24 million people uninsured!

And it still includes government-forced insurance, rationed care for seniors, vast new bureaucratic controls over doctors that will drive many to retire, taxes on the middle-class and small businesses, and more - the bill has it all. Everything except real reform that puts patients first and makes health care more affordable.

Call your Senator today and demand they vote against cloture on the motion to proceed! Every vote that brings this bill closer to final passage is a vote for government-run health care.

Leader Reid is determined to ram this health care bill through before Americans have a chance to find out what's in it. Help us stop that from happening!

Sincerely,

Patients First Team

P.S. Call your Senator today and tell them to vote against cloture on the motion to proceed. The vote will likely take place this Saturday. We must act now!