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Opening Arguments

Here we go

Be afraid, be very afraid:

With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.

The Health and Human Services Department “was given a billion dollars implementation money,” Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana said. “That money is gone already on additional bureaucrats and IT programs, computerization for the implementation.”

“Oh boy,” Stan Dorn of the Urban Institute said. “HHS has a huge amount of work to do and the states do, too. There will be new health insurance marketplaces in every state in the country, places you can go online, compare health plans.”

The IRS, Health and Human Services and many other agencies will now write thousands of pages of regulations — an effort well under way:

“There’s already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they’re not even done yet,” Rehberg said.

“It’s a delegation of extensive authority from Congress to the Department of Health and Human Services and a lot of boards and commissions and bureaus throughout the bureaucracy,” Matt Spalding of the Heritage Foundation said. “We counted about 180 or so.”

13,000 pages of regulations and 180 boards, bureaus and commissions, and they're just getting started. That giant sucking sound you heard was the life being squeezed out of the Constitution.

Comments

Rebecca Mallory
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 12:59pm

13,000 pages of new regulations and more than a dozen tax increases on the most productive sectors of the economy. 

I wonder if Nancy Pelosi will read any of the regulations.  Probably not.

tim zank
Sat, 07/07/2012 - 7:20pm

Anybody that thought this was EVER about getting more people access to Doctors and treatment was either completely naive or (for lack of a better analogy) just plain farking stupid.

Access to Doctors, Hospitals and prescription drugs was not a problem until Teddy Kennedy and his communist thinking brethren convinced enough sheeple that HMO's (managed care) would rid us of the problem of millions of poor people dying in the streets of America (which was all bullsh*t).

Anything the government does to "help" you will invariably, inevitably and most assuredly be bad for you. Fact of life, it's called history.

 

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