A View Through the Windshield

Monday, November 30, 2009

An article in the Washington Examiner by: Susan Ferrechio, points out how many times the word Secretary (as in Secretary of Health and Human Services) is mentioned in the new health care bill.

A quick search of the Senate health bill will bring up “secretary” 2,500 times.

That’s because Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it.

This isn’t a new concept, I lost count of how many times the words “commissioner” and “health commissioner” were mentioned in the first health care bill. 

Ms. Ferrechio seems to be just now putting two and two together to realize that this health care scam is nothing more than the biggest power grab in our nation’s history. To her credit, she quotes Edmund Haislmaier of the Heritage Foundation:

“It’s a huge amount of power being shifted to HHS, and much of it is highly discretionary,” said Edmund Haislmaier, an expert in health care policy and insurance markets at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Haislmaier said one the greatest powers HHS would gain from the bill is the authority to regulate insurance. States currently hold this power, and under the Senate bill, the federal government would usurp it from them. This could lead to the federal government putting restrictions and changes in place that destabilize the private insurance market by forcing companies to lower premiums and other charges, he said.

“Health and Human Services … doesn’t have any experience with this,” Haislmaier said. “I’m looking at the potential for this whole thing to just blow up on people because they have no idea what they are doing. Who in the federal government regulates insurance today? Nobody.”

I’m sorry, but where the hell has Ms. Ferrechio been? I mean, the dirty deed is almost done, and she’s just now becoming aware of what this is going to do to the quality of our health care system, our economy, and most importantly, our rights?

And from the comments section of the article comes the best evidence of  “buyers remorse” I’ve seen yet.

From BBub:

50% tax, are you kidding me, we’re heading to 80 – 90% tax rate….Bush’s expire – add 3%, over 250K – add 5%, add 5% for the war, move to unlimit soc sec tax (on employer too), good health plan add 20% tax on it, car – tax, gas – tax, heating oil – tax, and energy – add tax, cap and trade – add tax, medicare tax is going up anyways, property taxes going up with house proces falling, national value added tax (VAT) – wanted, states have already increased their taxes or are underway, global warming (hoax tax), don’t have health insurance – added income tax, have health insurance – adding new taxes to the insurance industry, and oh – yeah ACORN has been guaranteed their money from the feds – 6 BILLION, new cable tax, phone tax, auto taxes. But hey this is the Hope and Change I voted for. How about you!

Nov 29, 2009

I guess it is still hard for me to believe that people really couldn’t see this coming from the start. Better yet, we all should have seen this before Obama was elected; after all, the evidence of who he is, was right there in front of our collective faces. (pun intended!)

by: Backwards boB