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CNN reports five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against the Democrats' Senate Obamacare bill. According to CNN, the Democrats are 11 votes shy of passing Obamacare.

Friday, we reported that the Democrats were within four votes of passing Obamacare. Monday we were told that the Democrats picked up four votes. Was that just propaganda to make it appear that passage of the unpopular Obamacare bill was, like a Hillary Presidency, inevitable?

CNN's analysis shows that opposition in the House to the Senate Obamacare bill has reached 205 members:

• A total of 27 House Democrats, including nine who supported the House plan in November, have indicated that they would join a unified Republican caucus in opposing the Senate plan, which passed in that chamber December 24 with the minimum required 60 votes.

• Of the 39 Democrats who voted against the House plan in November, 17 have indicated that they will vote against the Senate plan as written, 11 remain uncommitted, and nine did not return repeated calls for comment.

In the setup to the following interview with New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner, Megyn Kelly reveals that the Fox News political team now calculates that Democrats are just "four votes shy" of being able to pass their Obamacare bill through the House. 

We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and wont leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt. -- Senator Scott Brown

In this week's Republican Address, newly-elected Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts explains that the Democrats running Washington have their Obamacare priorities all wrong:

• Americans told me that they want their President and Congress to focus on creating jobs and reviving Americas economy. Instead, for more than a year now, we have seen a bitter, destructive, and endless drive to completely transform Americas health care system.

• Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

• I haven't been here very long, but, I can tell you this much already: Nothing has distracted the attention and energy of the nations capital more than this disastrous detour. And, the surest way to return to the peoples business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and wont leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Watch the video of Senator Brown's address:

The Employers for a Healthy Economy coalition opposes the President's Obamacare push with a new ad campaign urging Congress to begin listening to the American people and start over to get health care reform right.

The coalition says the Democrats' Obamacare legislation will not improve health care, and in fact, it will only make health care more expensive for small business, large business and individuals.

Watch the ad:

• You cannot keep the plan you have. All health insurance plans will be subject to numerous new mandates, requirements, regulations, and bureaucratic oversight, which will force the plans to raise prices and change or eliminate plan offerings.

• Your health care costs will increase. The bill will do very little to control costs, while simultaneously taxing the health industry -- taxes consumers will pay -- and forcing Americans to purchase more expensive health insurance.

• Your taxes will increase. There will be a massive new payroll tax, a new tax on investments and 401(k)s, a new tax on “Cadillac” health benefits, new taxes on medical devices and prescription drugs, new taxes on all health insurance policies, and increased taxes in the form of cost-shifting through lower payments to hospitals and doctors.

• The debt, the deficit, and federal spending will increase. Despite a number of accounting gimmicks, like starting the taxation before the program spending begins, and double-counting $500 billion in Medicare cuts, the bill’s true cost will be trillions of dollars. The bill creates new entitlements that will increase forever, much like Social Security and Medicare.

• Medicare will be cut by $500 billion. The Congressional Budget Office clearly stated: “20 percent of Part A providers would become unprofitable” and stop seeing Medicare patients.

• Jobs will be lost, or never created. The bill creates a huge incentive not to hire low-wage workers and not to grow a business beyond 50 employees. Employers who hire a low-wage worker, even if they offer great health insurance, could be fined $3000 per year.