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Friday’s Wall Street Journal features an article outlining concerns over the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) financial viability.  The article points out that FHA currently insures 23 percent of the loans in the housing market up from 2.7 percent in 2006.  7.8 percent of FHA loans at the end of the second quarter were 90 days late or more or in default.

Starting on page 197 of H.R. 3200 - one of the main health care reform bills circulating in Congress:

16 ‘‘SEC. 59C. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS.

Starting on page 167 of H.R. 3200 - one of the main health care reform bills circulating in Congress:

18 ‘‘SEC. 59B. TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE

3 (a) GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COV

4 ERAGE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of

5 this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable cov

3 SEC. 223. PAYMENT RATES FOR ITEMS AND SERVICES.

4 (a) RATES ESTABLISHED BY SECRETARY.—

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish

6 payment rates for the public health insurance option

11 ‘‘SEC. 4375. HEALTH INSURANCE.

12 ‘‘(a) IMPOSITION OF FEE.—There is hereby imposed

13 on each specified health insurance policy for each policy

14 year a fee equal to the fair share per capita amount deter

[Click here to download over 9,400 comments from our activists on health care reform]

Early in the health care debate this year FreedomWorks created a webpage for activists to post their comments to be delivered to Congressmen on health care legislation. So far we have collected over 9,400 comments.  In the spreadsheet linked above you will find name, town, state, and comment on health care reform from our activists sorted by state.

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Media Matters Fact Checked us on our Obamacare Translator: Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) on June 19. In our original CER article, we argued that government intervention to compare health care methods was not necessary--private companies already do it. Here’s their entire post and our response to it: