Why Obamacare Must Be Repealed

The healthcare law that Congress passed in 2010  (“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy,” said Nancy Pelosi) was essentially a skeleton of a bill to be written later by the Department of Health and Human Services. No one really knew what was in the bill because the specifics of the bill had not actually been written yet. Well, it is now a work in progress.

Hot Air reported on Thursday that federal and state officials have already drafted 13,000 pages of rules and regulations for Obamacare.

The article concludes:

180 new bureaus/boards/commissions, hundreds of new employees, billions of dollars, who knows how many new rules to comply with… the mind reels. Make no mistake about it, whatever Team Obama says — this is a massive, unprecedented expansion of federal power. Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass it to know what’s in it, and we’re still not even done figuring out what’s in it. Awesome.

And it’s not as if all of these rules and regulations are just innocent little administrative instructions, either; the Catholic Church, for instance, isn’t too pleased with the rule decreeing that insurance plans need to cover contraception, regardless of religious affiliations. What other nefarious liberty-infringing, social-engineering surprises are going to come out of this legislative Pandora’s box?

The way the law is being set up, it will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Think about that for a minute. What is the IRS’s reputation for compassion and customer service? Do we really want them handling our healthcare?

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