Posted on 07/05/2012 8:36:46 AM PDT by grundle
With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.
The Health and Human Services Department “was given a billion dollars implementation money,” Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana said. “That money is gone already on additional bureaucrats and IT programs, computerization for the implementation.”
“Oh boy,” Stan Dorn of the Urban Institute said. “HHS has a huge amount of work to do and the states do, too. There will be new health insurance marketplaces in every state in the country, places you can go online, compare health plans.”
The IRS, Health and Human Services and many other agencies will now write thousands of pages of regulations — an effort well under way:
“There’s already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they’re not even done yet,” Rehberg said.
“It’s a delegation of extensive authority from Congress to the Department of Health and Human Services and a lot of boards and commissions and bureaus throughout the bureaucracy,” Matt Spalding of the Heritage Foundation said. “We counted about 180 or so.”
There has been much focus on the mandate that all Americans obtain health insurance, but analysts say that’s just a small part of the law — covering only a few pages out of the law’s 2700.
“The fact of the matter is the mandate is about two percent of the whole piece of the legislation,” Spalding said. “It’s a minor part.”
Much bigger than the mandate itself are the insurance exchanges that will administer $681 billion in subsidies over 10 years, which will require a lot of new federal workers at the IRS and health department.
“They are asking for several hundred new employees,” Dorn said. “You have rules you need to write and you need lawyers, so there are lots of things you need to do when you are standing up a new enterprise.”
For some, though, the bottom line is clear and troubling: The federal government is about to assume massive new powers.
Congress, and Moslems are exempt.
And Congress’ staff. so these lawyers too.
Everyone who writes some Law is free of it.
How Obama is that?
The reason for this is that rules written only by lawyers usually end up unused!
Best word for such materials is that they are drek.
The problem for this or any other government is that there are only a few dozen people in the entire country who have, at any one time, the native talent to write rules.
EPA, as you have probably guessed, doesn't let the subject matter experts near their rules ~ they write for the courts exclusively ~ and that's how private citizens run afoul of those EPA rules so easily.
I still say we should mount an effort to REQUIRE LAWYER Insurance for ALL Americans....see how the lawyer leeches like that! (And, NO, I do not think ALL Lawyers are leeches.)
Oh Joy.
Oh goodie, just what we need, lawyers creating rules and regulations for health care. What could possibly go wrong? People with only one tool in their tool belt, laws, should not be allowed within 10,000 miles of anything health related.
The communist professors who created the legal parasites must be so proud. Just like the success the of commie union teachers in public schools, the commie professors in law and journalism schools are doing their best to insure the success of the communist manifesto.
13,000 pages just for the current bill?
In my opinion, due to the volume of laws dumped upon the average citizen every year, ignorance of the law should be the avenue of first resort. Seems so many politicians use this excuse so why not the peons?
The whole thing will end up with only white, non-union, working class, Christian taxpayers required to buy insurance or pay the penalty.
Every backer of this horrific monstrosity should be condemned to the flames of hell.
Eff all of them.
“There’s already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they’re not even done yet,” Rehberg said.
That’s indeed the goal.
And, the regulations and penalties will be set up such that they can be arbitrarily enforced or not, and they will only be enforced on that group which you named.
The point is to criminalize our beliefs.
Problem is the public doesn’t know this
Damn the PACS have to get the facts out
Congress already said the bill was too complicated to be read and would require the assistance of two lawyers and THAT’S from a Democrat who voted for it and mocked those who’d ask if he actually read it.
The purpose is to bloat it with red tape and loopholes so that anyone approaching it would become lost down the rabbithole trying to interpret it. Even another challenge to the Supreme Court would fall flat since they didn’t bother to read it and decided the case on “outcomes” not Constitution.
All or nothing, either put Congress under this monstrosity or junk it. Muslims too. Illegals, no.
Not just any lawyers, but far Left liberal hacks will be the ones writing these rules. I highly doubt that anyone even remotely conservative is involved in this disaster.
[ That’s indeed the goal.
And, the regulations and penalties will be set up such that they can be arbitrarily enforced or not, and they will only be enforced on that group which you named.
The point is to criminalize our beliefs. ]
The goal is also to setup an environment where “Selective Enforcement” is the rule of the day. That way political enemies can be punished under the “rule of law” and those that are political allies can get away with breaking their many rules as the enforcement branch will simply “look the other way and cough”.
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