Here is picture of the Obamacare regulations that have been printed so far. It is more than 20,000 pages. There are many more pages to come because the law calls for over 150 new bureaucratic boards and agencies, many of which have not been formed yet. Think of hordes of bureaucrats churning out regulations, processing forms, making critical healthcare decisions for people they do not know, and making excuses for why this monstrously inefficient system is so monstrously inefficient.

Representative Kevin Brady of Texas prepared a chart showing the labyrinthine bureaucratic mess that is Obamacare.  This chart and story below were published in 2010 here.  You can study the chart in detail here.

This chart was meticulously compiled over the last four months after perusing the 2,841 pages of Obamacare that no one who voted for the bill bothered to read. This so-called “reform” has morphed into a new monstrosity of mandates, taxes & rationing, it will hurt seniors and hand healthcare into a bureaucracy which has now taken over 1/6 of our economy. This is a massive expansion of government & the bewildering complexity of this new law is overwhelming.

The HHS czar, Kathleen Sebelius, has 2200 references in the law and 600 new authorities which cannot be challenged. On the chart everything in dark blue to the left are expansions, orange are those empowered with rationing healthcare in the future. In the bottom left hand corner in blue, 150 new bureaucracies and boards have been created between doctor and patient. Those in yellow are specific mandates and there are 17 new mandates on insurance. Rep. Brady stated this law is so complex he couldn’t get the chart to fit on one page, the chart is only actually 1/3 of the size of the law so he shows “bundles of bureaucracy.” For example, one brown bundle hides 59 grant programs. Green diamonds are the taxes this law has created. In the far right corner are 19 special interest provisions, including the “Louisiana Purchase” and special interests for unions.

Buried deep in the law are 19 special sections that cannot be challenged by the courts or any regulatory system. What the public is being sold and what the law actually has are 2 totally different things. House Republicans are dedicated to repealing this law. If they take back the House they plan to block the most egregious parts of this law & replace it with common sense reform. They are also backing states who want to block this law. Rep. Brady stated if these mandates are allowed to stand there are no boundaries to what this government can do.

And jobs created? Yes. Many. 16,500 new IRS agents to police the law and an explosion of jobs in the HHS Department with probably no jobs created in the private sector. This law will eventually need even more taxes to fund it and the US will have an “anchor around Her neck” with difficulty competing with other countries.      [end of quoted story.]

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I take issue with part of the quote above.  The statement, “House Republicans are dedicated to repealing this law” is false.  They are dedicated to acting like they would like to repeal it.  They are not, as a group, taking a principled stand against it.  They are not educating the public about the certain disaster that lies ahead.  In fact, the public is ahead of them in this regard.  The majority of Americans continue to oppose Obamacare.  But will the Republicans rally this army and engage in a real fight to overturn this horribly bad law? No, they won’t. They are unprincipled weaklings.

The House of Representatives has the power of the purse.  They can fund what they want and they can defund the programs they don’t want to support.  They are spending money to support the implementation of Obamacare.  Obamacare will be the largest black hole of debt ever created.  It will suck up resources faster than anything ever has.  It’s the end-game.  It’s socialist check-mate.

If you think about the images above, it is clear that Obamacare cannot be a cost-efficient way to provide health care.  You may wonder, “Why would someone who wants inexpensive health care propose such a system?”.   Because it is not about health care.  It is about centralized power and control and it achieves that goal very well.

Update: You can make the case that as the disaster of Obamacare unfolds, voters will see the light and will repeal it.  Betsy McCaughey makes that case very well today right here.  McCaughey has written a book on Obamacare and understands it as well as anyone.  Obamacare was written so that the popular provisions kicked in first with the more painful ones postponed until after the last Presidential campaign.  McCaughey details the pain that is coming and the backlash she expects.  It’s an optimistic scenario, so it’s a nice change of pace from doom and gloom.