Wondering about What Health Care Rationing Really Is?

We dare you to read Dana Milbank's 8/6/2009 column for the Washington Post:

"In a Plea for Health Reform, a Widow Picks Up Her Paintbrushes."

The story begins, "Regina Holiday will always remember the day the Senate took up health-care reform seven weeks ago. It was the day her husband died." Read more here.

This is the U.S. health care system as it works today.

H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

We draw your attention to this blog's newest addition. See immediately to your right for "Check the Facts on Health Care Reform." The House Energy and Commerce Committee has done district by district analysis on the impact of the bill -- H.R. 3200, America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 -- passed this week by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Just scroll down to your state and then click the name of your Member of Congress or your district number, and read the facts -- all about what changes in our health care system will mean to you.

There is help for small business, help for seniors who struggle to pay for drugs in Medicare's Part D "doughnut hole", assistance for hospitals and coverage for the uninsured. Best of all, you can see how many taxpayers in your Congressional District would be taxed. For example, in western Iowa -- Congressional District 5 now represented by Steve King -- 99.5% of taxpayers would pay no additional tax for this bill.