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Yesterday President Obama sent an email on health care reform to the White House mailing list. Respectfully, here is my counterpoint.

Here is the email that President Obama sent yesterday to the White House email mailing list. I have written a counterpoint.

The President once again correctly identified the core problem, and I compliment him for his emphasis on the need to reduce, or at least slow the growth of, private health insurance premiums. Unfortunately the House and Senate bills move in the opposite direction. They contain insurance mandates that would make private health insurance more expensive for most Americans, and would thus exacerbate the problems described by the President.