Fox News reported that the current healthcare proposal will create 111 "new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs" if it is passed. Let's make a conservative estimate about the money involved in creating and maintaining that sort of bureaucracy. If every new agency has only one head, one staff member, and a place to meet, the minimum cost would be at least $200,000 per year per agency. That's even before the government spends a penny on healthcare. How is this going to save money? Also, have you ever seen a government program that got smaller? How much was Medicare supposed to cost when it was started?
It really is time to throw this bill overboard and start from scratch. We need tort reform, health insurance sold across state lines, provisions made for pre-existing conditions, and a tax credit to help lower income people purchase insurance. The government does not need to run health insurance, they just need to free up the insurance companies to do business. As I reported in an earlier article, the insurance companies averaged about 2% profit last year. They are not greedy corporations taking advantage of Americans; right now Congress seems to fit that description!
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