Comments on: Pelosi’s health care bill creates 111 new federal Obamacare bureaucracies

By: martyinaz

martyinaz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:57:51 +0000

That sounds like an oxymorn to me. When did any government administration simplify anything?

Government is a disease masquarading as a cure for all society..Robert Lefavre

By: livefreenh

livefreenh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:55:49 +0000

Sorry about that. Strike the word “holy”.

By: dnha14

dnha14 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:34:10 +0000

No. 4 on the list…”Program of administrative simplification”. What does this say about the other 110 items?

By: hickorystick

hickorystick — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:40:49 +0000

65. Healthy Teen Initiative grant program regarding teen pregnancy (Section 2526, p. 1398)
Translation: Free abortion
64. “No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza”
Translation: We don’t care what you decide, we know better
66. Grant program for interdisciplinary training, education, and services for individuals with autism
Translation: “Our vaccines didn’t cause your kids neurological problems but we have a program anyway”

By: USNJIMRET

USNJIMRET — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:30:25 +0000

or in some cases renaming or expanding existing parts of the bureaucracy?
Also, heard that part of the Dem push back is going to be that some of the agencies etc, are ones that in past years Republicans have either proposed or agreed with the need for.
Not that I don’t doubt for a second that this legislation has a stupidly incredible number of new Federal this and that, or that such a huge increase in an already bloated and unresponsive government isn’t just insane.
Actually, I’m not at all certain that “insane” even covers this Congress and the unbelievable amount of crap they crap out on a regular basis!
Makes one wish for some serious Legislative constipation!

By: caindependent

caindependent — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:25:26 +0000

And it was taken down in seconds, but all the paid liberals trolls lengthy notes of support never do.

We need to get this out.

By: carlsbadd

carlsbadd — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:17:57 +0000

5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)

Translation: This is not a death panel. it just separates the benefits congress and the unions get from the rest of the population.

17. Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)

Translation: Tax for calling in sick (union exemption applies)

74. Grant program for community-based overweight and obesity prevention (Section 2535, p. 1457)

Translation: Replaces the Presidents council on fitness, where school children actually took gym classes and went out and ran cross country , did push up’s and pull up’s and sweating sometimes happened, the government is much more progressive now and does not want to subject our children to such extreme measures.

81. Inter agency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (Section 2562, p. 1494)

Translation: Seeks to find ways to cut costs of pain medication, why have state of the art medication when a aspirin will do?

4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)

Translation: Bureaucracy to watch the other 110+ bureaucracies

By: DONTTREADONME

DONTTREADONME — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:22:41 +0000

6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
Choice of What, they want a single payer system?

11. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)
Yeah, just like that whole SSecurity Trust Fund, how long before the D’s raid that “lock box”

12. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)
Why do we have state and federal, can’t we try this at the state level first, oh wait we can’t because it would never work unless bolstered by the federal government.

By: michigan

michigan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:22:10 +0000

at least unemployment will drop to 5%. Geeze, you can’t have it all now. What a system!!!

By: Steph C

Steph C — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:21:42 +0000

I would add what this means in real dollars by comparing it to a comparable program of aid to the poor.

Over the next decade, welfare spending will amount to $30,000 per person per year — $120,000 for a family of 4 per year — 56% of which (or $67,200) goes to the recipients.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/but_what_about_the_poor.html

How much more will that 36%, that the government skims off for every dollar, be when they implement all these new bureaucracies?

Moreover, these direct costs do not cover the concomitant costs for enterprises. That is, many organizations apply to whole populations, although their justification is the needs of the “poor.” For example, most people can afford education, but to guarantee it for the poor, there is public education for most, as well as subsidies. The same holds for establishing Social Security, Medicare, housing, health insurance, and industrial policy. There are then huge additional costs to the taxpayers and to the recipients of services who are not “poor.”

The whole thing is worse than a ponzi scheme. It’s pure graft; government enriching itself at the expense of the people. Didn’t we fight a revolution once upon a time to stop this sort of thing?

By: Swamp_Yankee

Swamp_Yankee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:19:52 +0000

Kudos for the team that put this together. Accessible and detailed. Send to voters in Blue Dog Districts.

By: DONTTREADONME

DONTTREADONME — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:19:45 +0000

“8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155 ”
Anyone ever hear of the SEC? My guess is a whole bureaucracy is needed to look after this whole exchange maybe we shall call it HECk.

By: zachv

zachv — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:16:05 +0000

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They are repeating this each day until THURSDAY when Bachmann is holding the press conference in front of the Capital.

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By: DONTTREADONME

DONTTREADONME — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:13:17 +0000

rotflmao

By: gekster

gekster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:13:12 +0000

send to all your friends
It would be grass roots

By: caindependent

caindependent — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:10:53 +0000

…and trying to scoop them back into my head after it exploded.

No way in hell is this bill going to cost a trillion. That’s chump change for Zero & the Kleptocrats.

Republicans should have gotten off their asses & proposed comprehensive reform designed around the real elephant in the room.

Tort reform.