Download Chart at the link.
Posted on 08/03/2010 8:43:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun
Washington, D.C. - Four months after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,"a congressional panel has released the first chart illustrating the 2,801 page health care law President Obama signed into law in March.
Developed by the Joint Economic Committee minority, led by U.S Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the detailed organization chart displays a bewildering array of new government agencies, regulations and mandates.
"For Americans, as well as Congressional Democrats who didn’t bother to read the bill, this first look at the final health care law confirms what many fear, that reform morphed into a monstrosity of new bureaucracies, mandates, taxes and rationing that will drive up health care costs, hurt seniors and force our most intimate health care choices into the hands of Washington bureaucrats,"said Brady, the committee’s senior House Republican. "If this is what passes for health care reform in America, then God help us all."
Brownback, the committee’s ranking member, added, "This updated chart illustrates the overwhelming expansion of government control over health choices and the bewildering complexity facing everyone affected by this law. It doesn’t take long to see how the recently signed health care bill causes a hugely expensive and explosive expansion of federal control over health care. Personal choices that should be between a doctor and a patient will quickly be strangled in a never ending web of bureaucracy."
Senate Steering Committee Chairman Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) called Obamacare "a bureaucratic nightmare. The Democrats’ takeover of health care creates a byzantine network of 159 new federal programs and bureaucracies to make decisions that should be between just the patient and their doctor. It should concern everyone that at the center of this regulatory web is the new CMS chief, Donald Berwick, who has championed rationing and European socialized medicine. Americans were rightly outraged that this big government bill was rushed through Congress before anyone read or fully understood the bill’s consequences. Republicans will fight to repeal this reckless takeover and to ensure health care freedom to American families."
In addition to capturing the massive expansion of government and the overwhelming complexity of new regulations and taxes, the chart portrays:
$569 billion in higher taxes;
$529 billion in cuts to Medicare;
swelling of the ranks of Medicaid by 16 million;
17 major insurance mandates; and
the creation of two new bureaucracies with powers to impose future rationing: the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payments Advisory Board.
Brady admits committee analysts could not fit the entire health care bill on one chart. "This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill. It’s actually worse than this."
Download Chart at the link.
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The President and Congress have given us a health care reform package that will force people into government-defined health plans and penalize them for paying for services with cash!
Missouri’s Proposition C, on the August 3 primary ballot, will protect us from those government mandates by expressly stating that the government may not “penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance or infringe upon the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful healthcare services.”
Furthermore, the August 3 vote is the FIRST TIME any voters in the country will have the opportunity to vote yes in order to protect their freedom from government regulation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH6a-kEwVas&feature=player_embedded
what a clusterf***..........................
According to Al Gore, they are so good there is even an expression coined: "Good enough for government work"
(No...seriously he said that, and he THOUGHT it meant what high quality we get from government workers... He seemed to have no idea it was a sarcastic dig at govt. work being the worst crap you can foist on the public)
the sheeple who support it will only say this is a fake chart put out by left wing nutjobs! They will not believe it until they themselves begin to experience the effects of rationing, higher costs, and not being able to get surgery for something that will simply “improve their quality of life” i.e. a hip replacement after age 60.
Then and only then will they see the light, but of course, it will be too late.
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/speeches/2706.html
(toward the bottom)
I've told some of you before that I remember vividly how, as a youngster, the phrase "Made in Japan" meant to me something that was low quality and would wear out pretty quickly. But now, it means to many consumers a level of -- a high level of quality and craftsmanship. Luckily, America's businesses have responded to that challenge and are now the best in quality in the world. Well, in the same way, the phrase "good enough for government work" means to too many people today just barely enough to get by.
But we can see a future not that far away when these kinds of partnerships that we are celebrating here today bring about a change just as profound in the meaning of that phrase "good enough for government work," as we saw the change in that phrase, "Made in Japan." And some years from now, sooner than many people think, that phrase "good enough for government work" will mean "top quality, world-class, a standard to aspire to."
...though hoping for that in-itself is ludicrous.
Look closely at the chart. Every single box, circle, triangle, etc., references the specific section of the law that creates it.
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