ObamaCare Is A Bureaucratic Nightmare

Obama’s comprehensive national health care plan just passed its first hurdle in a U.S. Senate committee. As reported by Fox News:

“In a party-line vote that reflected deep concerns over costs, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 13-10, with all Republicans on the committee opposing, to pass a $600-billion version that would expand coverage to nearly all Americans by requiring individuals get insurance and employers to contribute to the cost.

The bill would provide federal aid to families and individuals making less than four times the poverty level, or about $88,000 for a family of four.

That’s just the first hurdle for one of several bills, each with fluctuating cost estimates. For the House Democrats’ version, the CBO estimate tagged the 10-year cost of the plan at just over $1 trillion.

“On a preliminary basis … the proposal’s provisions affecting health insurance coverage would result in a net increase in federal deficits of $1,042 billion for fiscal years 2010 through 2019,” the report said, citing additional expenses for Medicaid and other federal subsidies.

One Democratic aide said the bill would add up to $1.5 trillion over the next decade. But the CBO estimate showed that even if the price tag holds to $1 trillion, more than 80 percent of the costs will hit in the last five years. This indicates that after 2019, taxpayers could be hit with a rising tidal wave of health care expenses resulting from the shift in health care coverage from the private to public sector.”

Below is an organizational chart of ObamaCare, which gives us an idea of the bureaucratic nightmare it promises to be. Navigating through this byzantine bureaucracy alone will require a battalion of new government functionaries, and we all know what the prime imperative of a bureaucracy is, right? — to perpetuate and expand itself!

H/t to GiovanniWorld’s fearless leader Gio himself for helping me post this pdf chart!

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~Eowyn

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