Here's what you could lose....

....with health care reform, according to Fortune Magazine. In a nutshell, if you're one who actually gets a bit of exercise, avoids tobacco, and keeps a healthy weight, you will no longer be able to choose a high deductible health plan to "cash in" on your good choices.

This is, in a nutshell, why the Waxman/Obama plan, even as modified by so-called "conservative" Blue Dog Democrats, has no chance of reducing health care costs except by reducing the quantity and quality of care. In my family's case, "COBRA" coverage would have cost $1200/month--and that for a high deductible plan. The plan I got while unemployed was about $500/month.

By refusing to allow people to cash in on good health choices--like avoiding obesity and saving $1400/person annually--we can virtually guarantee that many Americans will never see the consequences of their actions until that first big heart attack or onset of lung cancer of emphesema.

Don't be fooled; the Blue Dogs have not fixed the problems with Obamacare, nor are they "conservative" by any stretch of the imagination. If your representative is a member of this caucus, remind him of these facts, and if he doesn't listen to sense, work to retire him from Congress come 2010.