Posted by Bruce M on July 29, 2009, 2:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Health Care: Why Obama is rushing it through"
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The House version creates 53 new federal bureaucracies with everything from a Health Choices Administration to a Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund to a Health Benefits Advisory Committee. Thirty-three entitlement programs are created or expanded. The notion is put to rest that government might cooperate with doctors and patients to work out what is best for providing care. The health care bill uses the assertive word 'shall' 1,683 times.
These passages are government mandates that force doctors, consumers and others in the health care profession to do what Congress orders. The word 'penalty' is used 156 times for those who don't follow orders. 'Tax' is referred to 172 times. The bill is 1,018 pages long, very complicated and surely will cause legal disputes about its meaning for years to come."
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