Republicans Unveil Flow Chart of Democrat Health Care Plan

[Hitman]

 

[stancel]

I don't know what cost more. The healthcare plan or the 500 government employees it took to put this flow chart together.

 

[mct601]

I hope this is a joke

 

[artabr]

It's actually worse than that.

This is the actual chart that was released by Congressman Brady.
The really bad news is that this is only about 1/3 of the plan.

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx08_brady/pr_100728_hc_chart.html


AMERICA'S NEW HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REVEALED
UPDATED CHART SHOWS OBAMACARE'S BEWILDERING COMPLEXITY

Washington, D.C. - 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."

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."

Senate Steering Committee Chairman Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) called Obamacare "a bureaucratic nightmare. The Democrats’ takeover of health care creates a byzantine network of 159 new federal programs and bureaucracies to make decisions that should be between just the patient and their doctor. It should concern everyone that at the center of this regulatory web is the new CMS chief, Donald Berwick, who has championed rationing and European socialized medicine. Americans were rightly outraged that this big government bill was rushed through Congress before anyone read or fully understood the bill’s consequences. Republicans will fight to repeal this reckless takeover and to ensure health care freedom to American families."

In addition to capturing the massive expansion of government and the overwhelming complexity of new regulations and taxes, the chart portrays:

$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.

Brady admits committee analysts could not fit the entire health care bill on one chart.

This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill.

It’s actually worse than this."


The chart in a magnify-able PDF format:

http://www.house.gov/brady/pdf/Obamacare_Chart.pdf




Art

 

[fastmover]

i am no expert but; it looks like it should work.

 

[oleheat]

Yes, but isn't it reassuring to know that we have such a competent, cool-headed, experienced man in the White House to guide us through this?

 

[Baldrik78]

I've seen blueprints for microprocessors that were less complicated than that.

 

[senseibuddy]

 

[ryan]

hows that hope and change working out for you?

 

[posse comatosis]

That m'fkr is so big, it times out downloading on my land line. I'll ask Nancy Pelosi to send me a copy, along with a couple of pics of her naked on the beach in her 20's. Don't tell me she wasn't. Hippie chicks in the 60's. Ya couldn't help but love 'em. Women like her are the reason I need health care today.

 

[Yrdawg]

Remember you have to vote in the bill so you can know whats in the bill

Now its in......I still don't have a clue what is being shoved down my throat, I do however have a good idea whats being shoved into another body orfice

Would WJC call this sex ????

 

[Mirror]

...WAT?

 

[Mirror]

Remember you have to vote in the bill so you can know whats in the bill

Now its in......I still don't have a clue what is being shoved down my throat, I do however have a good idea whats being shoved into another body orfice

Would WJC call this sex ????

Also, WJC? Am I missing something?

 

[senseiturtle]

Cash only... the wave of the past, the wave of the future.


Insurance will have to be reduced to catastrophe -only

 

[DuckYou]

Cash only... the wave of the past, the wave of the future.


Insurance will have to be reduced to catastrophe -only

Many physicians are going to cash only practices. They will not file insurance or even take credit cards. These are mainly specialists.

If I owned a practice, I would be considering this.

If this becomes common place, the government will get involved and make it illegal for physicians to take cash for their services.