Czar would have absolute power in transforming today’s consumer-driven healthcare into a government-dictated system

Insurance exchange plan in House Reform Bill raises prices and limits choices for everyone

By Online: Merrill Matthews Friday, January 22, 2010

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Both the House and Senate health reform bills create health insurance exchanges, and both hopefully will be scrapped by Democrats who are forging the final legislation.

Of the two versions, however, the House plan is by far the worse. It is both national and more sweeping in scope, severely limiting choices and driving up premiums for everyone — especially for the young and healthy.

If the House’s nationalized exchange proposal wins out, Americans will be stuck with a costly new government bureaucracy called the Health Choices Administration run by another appointed “czarâ€