Rather than slowing the trend of rising health care costs, the Democrats’ government takeover of health care makes things worse – by hundreds of billions of dollars.

By The Numbers:

* $390 billion – The amount by which taxpayers’ commitment to health care would increase between 2010 and 2019 under the Democrats’ reconciliation bill, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

* $222 billion – The amount by which national health care costs will rise between 2010 and 2019 under the Senate health care bill, according to the Obama Administration’s actuaries at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). (NOTE: CMS has informed the Congress that it cannot issue an estimate of the reconciliation bill before today’s vote, so House Democrats will for a government takeover of health care without knowing its true impact on the federal budget.)