Today members of the House of Representatives are meeting in a rare Saturday session to vote on the Democrats plan to take over 1/5 or 1/6 of our economy (depending on which economist you talk too) under the guise of Health Care Reform.
Michelle Malkin is liveblogging the proceedings, of what she’s termed, the new Imperial Congress.
House Minority Leader John Boehner released and new chart crafted by The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) House Republican staff which he calls a “blueprint for a taxpayer-funded mega-bureaucracy”
“This is the blueprint for a taxpayer-funded mega-bureaucracy,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH). “The new chart is an astonishing and unsettling glimpse of the future that awaits American health care, should H.R. 3962 be passed by the House and signed into law.”
The chart, completed at the direction of Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), the committee’s ranking House Republican Member, shows that the Pelosi plan has grown even more complex in the months since it was originally unveiled by congressional Democrats. The new bill – expected to be brought to a vote in the House as early as Saturday – contains all of the bureaucracy of the original plan, plus a whole lot more, the chart illustrates. The full chart can be seen here:
“The American people have spoken. They don’t want their health care replaced by massive government bureaucracy. This chart shows the Democratic leadership hasn’t listened,” Boehner said. “Instead of starting over on a common-sense plan to improve our health care system, Speaker Pelosi and her allies have created a bureaucratic beast that will end the American health care system as we know it. I commend Ranking House Republican Brady and his team for illustrating what’s at stake.”
Keep an eye on how these 69 Democrats vote on this bill today
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I am still trying to figure out how 111 new bureaucracies are going to help make Health care Cheaper. Anything done by the government only raises prices and it is one of the main reasons that Health Care is so high as it is now. Get the Government out of Health Care to lower prices.
Agreed Doug,
The fact is if we would have left curing polio to the Government – we’d have the very best Iron Lung money could buy and not a polio vaccine!
I love how everyone thinks that Congress is giving or enforcing rights and yet somehow they have to do it with coercion.
So by restricting others rights everyone else is free?
If I recall that is referred to as slavery….at best tyranny.
10 ways the House bill would change health care: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091107/pl_mcclatchy/3351547
These are some of the changes in the way health insurance would work in the United States if the House bill were to become law:
1. Creates a government-run plan, or “public option,” to offer insurance coverage to compete with private sector insurance companies.
2. Sets up health insurance “exchanges,” or marketplaces, where consumers can easily compare coverage and rates.
3. Requires nearly everyone to obtain health insurance coverage starting in 2013.
4. Ends blanket exemption for insurers from anti-trust laws.
5. Provides federal financial help for lower and middle income consumers so they can obtain coverage.
6. Bars insurers from denying or limiting coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
7. Bars insurers from imposing lifetime limits on coverage.
8. Expands Medicaid coverage to more people.
9. Imposes a 5.4 percent surcharge on adjusted gross incomes of more than $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for joint filers.
10. Imposes penalties on people and businesses who fail to comply with the new law.