Frightening New Chart of Health Care Bureaucracy Available

Do you remember the charts that came out last year to help us understand and navigate the maze that was the proposal for ObamaCare?  Well, they were pretty tame compared to the 2,801-page finished product that the socialists in Congress passed earlier this year.

The Republican Joint Economic Committee has an updated chart of this mess that is somehow supposed to make the American health care system better.  The website quotes Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)

“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.”

Brownback, the committee’s ranking member, added, “This updated chart illustrates the overwhelming expansion of government control over health choices and the bewildering complexity facing everyone affected by this law. It doesn’t take long to see how the recently signed health care bill causes a hugely expensive and explosive expansion of federal control over health care. Personal choices that should be between a doctor and a patient will quickly be strangled in a never ending web of bureaucracy.”

Some of what this Medusa-like monstrosity illustrates:

• $569 billion in higher taxes;
• $529 billion in cuts to Medicare;
• swelling of the ranks of Medicaid by 16 million;
• 17 major insurance mandates; and
• the creation of two new bureaucracies with powers to impose future rationing: the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payments Advisory Board.

As usual, when you hear the words, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,” this is your signal to run the other way as fast as you can.

My fellow Americans, let’s give as many as possible of these bureaucratic socialists their walking papers in November and start our return to the free market model that made America the greatest nation on earth.

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