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FRIDAY HOT READ: THE HEALTH CARE MAZE

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Ladies and gentleman, your new health care system.

Jul 28 2010

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Washington, DC – 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.”

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  1. Oh Jeeze.
  2. because dealing with private insurance was so easy, and cheap too. Why did we scrap it again? Yes, because it was an awful system that only covered the healthy or those in a union strong enough for a good health plan.
  3. Answer a couple of questions for me please. If this healthcare plan is soooo great 1) Why are the politicians exempt? 2)Why is England fighting to get away from the SAME kind of system? 3) Why is the SAME kind of system staring to FAIL in Canada?
  4. Thats starting to fail in Canada.

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