NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: THE IMPORTANT NUMBERS YOU NEED TO KNOW

After the Friday release of the House Democrat leadership's health reform discussion draft, the Republican Conference has compiled a list of important numbers relevant to the legislation known as National Health Care or Obamacare. Here are some of the important numbers to know:

852 - Pages in the bill

120 million - Number of individuals who could lose their current coverage as a result of the government-run plan reimbursing at Medicare rates created in the bill, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group

4.7 million - Number of jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses that cannot afford to provide health insurance coverage, according to a model developed by Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer

$88,200 - Definition of "low-income" family of four for purposes of health insurance subsidies

Trillions - New federal spending, which likely could exceed the $1.6 trillion reported price tag of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus' legislation

32 - Entitlement programs the bill creates, expands, or extends

48 - Additional offices, bureaus, commissions, programs, and bureaucracies the bill creates over and above the entitlement programs listed above

1,367 - Uses of the word "shall," representing new duties to be carried out by federal bureaucrats and mandates on individuals, businesses, and States

$10 billion - Minimum loss sustained by taxpayers every year due to Medicare fraud; the government-run health plan utilizes the same ineffective anti-fraud statutes and procedures that have kept Medicare on the Government Accountability Office's list of high-risk programs for two decades

$1.75 billion - Mandatory spending on home visitation services that would educate parents on "skills to interact with their child"

Zero - Prohibitions on government programs like Medicare and Medicaid from using cost-effectiveness research to impose delays to or denials for access to life-saving treatments

2017 - Year Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted - a date unchanged by the legislation, which re-directs savings from Medicare to finance new entitlements for younger

Americans

Please call your representative today and urge them to vote NO on the Democrat's National Health Care Proposal. You can reach them by dialing the Capital Hill switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and asking for your representative.

One of the most important numbers is $3,000. A recent Heritage Foundation report said that the direct and indirect taxes created by this bill would aproach almost $3,000 per year ($250 per month) for a family of four.