Health care round up

• Small businesses are holding off on hiring in part because of concern over health care legislation.

• The Congressional Budget Office says the Republican health care plan would reduce the cost of insurance premiums and the budget deficit. So of course it has no chance.

• The Washington Examiner finds a $6 billion payoff in the health care bill.

• Sen. Tom Coburn might force health care legislation to be read aloud on the Senate floor.

• Health care bill: Buy a $15,000 policy or go to jail.

• The health care bill apparently doesn't index for inflation.

• The central planning conceit: how past government-led efforts to rein-in health care spending has worked out. Or not.