Today, the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved, on party lines, a healthcare reform bill. The bill includes a provision to create a government run health insurance plan which will compete with private insurers. The plan is expected to cost $1 trillion dollars over 10 years.
I examined the plan and released a detailed flow chart highlighting the 31 (at current count) departments, agencies, and programs that will administer the proposed Democratic government-run healthcare bureaucracy.
Gee Willikers...
"The bureaucracy is expanding......to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
It's pretty horrific. Of course neither party wants you to see what the current system looks like. Also horrific. I do think the proposed reform is worse. But let's not pretend that the current system isn't a Kafka-esque bureacracy akin to the picture.
I'm Gherald L. and this is a place to journal and rant inexpertly about whatever interests me.
At present this includes humor, freethought, liberty, laissez-faire economics, pragmatic politics, and foreign policy of the realism school.
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“On environmental issues, we have to follow the evidence where it leads — and on social issues we have to take our society as it is. If the world changes, we have to change with it. The refusal of so many of my fellow conservatives in the United States to adapt their thinking to facts and realities does not demonstrate their adherence to principle. It demonstrates a frivolous indifference to the responsibilities of political leadership”
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