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Does America really need the 111 new federal bureaucracies created under the latest plan to “reform” health care?  If you believe that these government entities, created behind closed doors by Harry Reid and Co. contrary to their promise to not act behind closed doors, will benefit the country I defy you to explain how.

All these agencies will need to have budgets and staffs.  They will then need oversight committees to, in theory, watch over them.  Each will create its own volumes of regulations which will then become intertwined into our daily lives, and we will NEVER get rid of them.  Read any section of the bill.  Can you understand it?  Could you explain it to someone in plain English?  You might as well be trying to read a cinderblock.  It’s just as dense and just as informative.

Here, have a small sample from page 220:

4 SEC. 203. QUALITY MEASURE DEVELOPMENT.
5 Title IX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
6 299 et seq.) is amended—
7 (1) by redesignating part D as part E;
8 (2) by redesignating sections 931 through 938
9 as sections 941 through 948, respectively;
10 (3) in section 948(1), as so redesignated, by
11 striking ‘‘931’’ and inserting ‘‘941’’; and
12 (4) by inserting after section 926 the following:

So, there you go.  Simple, easy, to the point.  I feel better already.  Don’t you?  There are over 2000 pages of this nonsense.  2000 pages of bigger government prying ever farther into our lives.  Mandating this, penalizing that, taxing this, criminalizing that.  It’s nothing short of central planning U.S.S.R. style.  It’s government over reach and decidedly unconstitutional.  Which founding father would sign off on this monstrosity? What common sense citizen thinks this is good and will work as advertised for the costs projected?  Anyone older than 30 should know that there will be many unintended consequences and the cost projections will end up being way off the mark.  It’s always the way.

Remember that the lead dog in this battle is Harry Reid, who has argued that Americans do not have to pay taxes and happily announces that he has never read any of Sonya Sotomayor’s opinions, yet will vote for her confirmation to the Supreme Court anyway.  What qualifications does he have for such a gargantuan undertaking?  On top of all this, they are telling us that they are going to REDUCE the deficit and make health care better and cheaper.  Who could possibly believe this claptrap?

The leftists, that’s who.  Today in the New York Times, for example, Nicholas Kristof speaks for them clearly.  He argues that “These days, the critics of Medicare have come around because it manifestly works.”  Works?  Well, I guess it works, if you don’t mention what the Wall Street Journal reported in May of this year:

Last week the Medicare trustees reported that the program has an “unfunded liability” of nearly $38 trillion — which is the amount of benefits promised but not covered by taxes over the next 75 years.

So, yes, it works.  It’s just that it’s not being paid for.  No big deal, apparently, to Kristof and the rest of the socialist left.  Isn’t this the same group of folks who constantly pound the “sustainability” drum?  Why doesn’t that apply to funding of government programs?

This health care bill is terrible.  It’s too big, too complicated, too fiscally irresponsible.  No conservative will ever vote for it.  Olberman and Maddow and Schultz and Reid and Pelosi and Obama and the rest will opine forever about how great this health care reform will be, and how dumb and out of touch the right is when criticizing it.  But common sense tells me it’s a damn boondoggle.

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