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ObamaCare's Bureaucratic Nightmare Revealed

Washington, July 28, 2010 | Staff
Today, Rep. Kevin Brady (TX), senior House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, released a revised chart illustrating the bureaucratic nightmare that is America's new health care system under the recently passed ObamaCare legislation. This detailed visual displays a staggering array of new government agencies, regulations, and mandates created under the plan.
Today, Rep. Kevin Brady (TX), senior House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, released a revised chart illustrating the bureaucratic nightmare that is America's new health care system under the recently passed ObamaCare legislation.  This detailed visual displays a staggering array of new government agencies, regulations, and mandates created under the plan.  Click on the image below to download a PDF version of the chart.



From the Joint Economic Committee:

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.”