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TRILLION-DOLLAR PROPOSAL WOULD CREATE MASSIVE WEB OF UNECESSARY BUREAUCRACY
While President Barack Obama was calling on Congress to “buck up” and pass his trillion-dollar health care “reform” proposal, U.S. House leaders released a chart demonstrating the bureaucratic mess that the plan would create.
Using data from the House Joint Economic Committee, Republicans created the chart to illustrate the remarkable bureaucratic “maze” that will be developed under Obama’s health care package.
The flow chart begins simply enough, with the president and Congress at the top. But from there, things quickly spiral out of control, with countless arrows pointing all over the place between dozens of governmental and non-governmental bodies.
Similar versions of Obama’s plan Wednesday passed the Senate Health Committee and were introduced in the House. Obama is calling for legislation that creates a public health care option that would provide access to insurance for the 50 million people Democrats say are uninsured.
The Senate version would expand coverage by requiring individuals to get insurance and employers to contribute to the cost. In the House, the Democrat bill would cost between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion over 10 years and raise taxes by $540 billion for couples earning more than $350,000 a year.
Critics charge the plan is extremely wasteful, creates unnecessary bureaucracy, and imposes mandates and tax hikes on small businesses to pay for it.
To compensate for the plan’s shortcomings, the Democratic National Committee Wednesday announced that they would be running ads in targeted moderate-Democrat districts to encourage them to support the faltering Democrat health care bill.
Noted one Washington insider, “What does it say about the quality of your proposals when you have to attack your own to sell it?”
you need a f-in rocket ship to get through that junk.
What’s wrong with this chart:
Patient —-> Insurance Company —-> Patient —-> Doctor
works for those of us w/ a job..
That C street group has allowed ONE COMPANY to hold all insurance companies.
So when insurance is mandated, you will be beholden to FMR, who has complete control over the SSA Trust Fund and most likely the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
I believe this company has brainwashed the men who attend C Street.
I have every reason to believe that since I have been profoundly abused . The state of South Carolina owes me an explanation of how our Governor has taken away all of my rights.
You see, I reported crime, then got abused.
IT”S GONNA STOP MARK>
“But these charts–and, more important, the Republicans who use them as propoganda–tend to ignore one inconvenient fact: American health care is already complex. Ridiculously complex. Thanks to decades of haphazard, disorganized growth, it’s evolved into a mind-numbing web of institutions, agencies, businesses, and individual actors. And while that may be self-evident to anybody who’s ever had to deal with, say, a billing dispute between an insurer and hospital, it’s easy to lose sight of that when the discussion is all about what reform might do–rather than what health care would be like without it.”
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/07/15/rube-goldberg-already-lives-here.aspx
“Noted one Washington insider, ‘What does it say about the quality of your proposals when you have to attack your own to sell it?’”
It says you’re trying to reform something that doesn’t want to be reformed. I would think a Graham cheerleader would recognize that fact, given his losing battle against pork.
Don’t blame the Republicans for this type of chart. They are following the flow of the bill the Democrats are trying to pass. Go back to when Hillary Clinton proposed the Health Care bill. This chart looks very familiar. Yes, we need to improve our insurance/health care procedures. No, we don’t need government intervention. Look at Medicare. What a massive, costly mess. I like choosing my own doctor, or being able to have a test in a timely fashion or getting the required medicine. If you don’t believe you will lose these abilities or that it will cost you, your children and your children’s children dearly, you need to investigate more into what this bill includes. Scary!!! Why the big rush to get something passed before August. Could it be that the representatives are going to get an ear full from their constituents when they go home or that Obama is beginning to hear more and more grumbling from the American people about the debt??? American health care may be complex to some but you haven’t seen anything more complex than government controlled health care.
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