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Op-Ed: Health care status quo would be disaster for middle class

By House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

Washington, DC - How's this for a health care plan? It will make your premiums go up-in fact, it will double health costs over the next ten years. It will strip millions of Americans of their coverage. It will send our deficit through the roof.

That, as President Obama recently pointed out, is the health care plan we choose by doing nothing. That is the status quo, and it will be the health care plan we end up with if health insurance reform fails.