I don't accept any figures coming from the Cato Institute, including the above referenced 6 trillion. They are just using propaganda of their own to scare people into abandoning any kind of health care reform at all. The Cato people have been pushing for privatization of Social Security for a long time. Had Social Security been privatized as they want, the results would have been a major tragedy for the elderly in this country. The Cato Institute cannot be trusted in any way. They have only one interest - to make the playing field even more biased in favor of the large corporations at the expense of the average people in this country and around the world. I do not accept the claim that the bills being considered by the Congress would cost 6 trillion dollars.

And while I don't think that the bills with the strongest chances of passing are anywhere near as good as what we need (single payer, not for profit), they are not anywhere near as bad as the propaganda being promoted by the Cato Institute and the rest of the corporatocracy would have us believe.