{"id":1323,"date":"2009-11-03T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2009-11-03T06:35:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:35:54","slug":"i_guess_this_will_help_unemplo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"I Guess This Will Help Unemployment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/11\/02\/house-republicans-new-bureaucracies-health-care\/\">Fox News<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the current healthcare proposal will create 111 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/11\/02\/raw-data-gop-list-new-bureaucracies-house-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs<\/a>&#8221; if it is passed.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s make a conservative estimate about the money involved in creating and maintaining that sort of bureaucracy.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; That&#8217;s even before the government spends a penny on healthcare.&nbsp; How is this going to save money?&nbsp; Also, have you ever seen a government program that got smaller?&nbsp; How much was Medicare supposed to cost when it was started?<\/p>\n<p>It really is time to throw this bill overboard and start from scratch.&nbsp; We need tort reform, health insurance sold across state lines,&nbsp;provisions made for pre-existing conditions, and a tax credit to help lower income people&nbsp;purchase insurance.&nbsp; The government does not need to run health insurance, they just need to free up the insurance companies to do business.&nbsp; As I reported in an earlier article, the insurance companies averaged about 2% profit last year.&nbsp; They are not greedy corporations taking advantage of Americans; right now Congress seems to fit that description!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News&nbsp;reported that the current healthcare proposal will create 111 &#8220;new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs&#8221; if it is passed.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s make a conservative estimate about the money involved in creating and maintaining that sort of bureaucracy.&nbsp; If every new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}