Although Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill is over 1,900 pages long, there are only three things Members of Congress need to understand before they vote on it:1.    Americans would no longer be able to choose their own health insurance:  The bill would create a “Health Benefits Advisory Commission” to help the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) determine an “essential benefits package.”  (Page 105.)  Families would no longer be able to choose their own insurance benefits.  Instead, they would be stuck with whatever the HHS Secretary decided to offer them.  2.    The proposed tax subsidy for the federal “public option” would eliminate private health insurance options.  The bill would create a “public health insurance option” run by the government to compete with private insurance companies.  (Page 211.)  Unlike the public plan, private insurance companies...(Read Full Post)