July 17, 2009
Obamacare in one word: Bureaucracy!
Michelle Malkin’s column today does a fabulous job of exposing the new beast of a bureaucracy the health care bill will create:
Because 32 “czars” isn’t enough, the Democrat plan would add another overlord to the Obama administration. The new “Health Choices Commissioner” would helm the new “Health Choices Administration” (Section 141 of the bill) – separate from the already existing Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration), the Veterans Health Administration, and the Indian Health Service.
Because the government has done such a boffo job managing the near-bankrupt Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, the Democrats have proposed creating a “Public Health Investment Fund” and a “Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund.” The latter would create a “transparent and functional marketplace for individuals and small employers to comparison shop among private and public insurers.”
No matter that state insurance departments already operate such systems. Health care must be “fixed.” The federal cure is redundancy.
The Obamacare bill also creates a new “Bureau of Health Information” (not to be confused with the already existing National Center for Health Statistics) within the department of Health and Human Services. The BHI will be led by a new “Assistant Secretary for Health Information.” The new assistant secretary will coordinate with the recently-created “National Coordinator for Health Information Technology” – who is responsible for monitoring the $19.5 billion in the stimulus law to implement “a nationwide interoperable, privacy-protected health information technology infrastructure.”
That is just a taste of what she wrote. It gets much worse. I urge you to hop on over to her site and read the whole thing. You’ll get lost in all of the new agencies and jobs that will be created under this plan, even if there are already agencies and jobs in existence to deal with these issues. But, that’s politicians for you. I can’t really blame Democrats. I mean, when the five agencies responsible for preventing 9/11 failed, George W. came back with a brilliant idea: The Department of Homeland Security.
People across the country are starting to protest. The health care bill is becoming their battle cry. Politicians aren’t going to give the power back to us; we have to go out there and take it from them!
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