Pelosi healthcare plan chart = bureaucratic nightmare

Mega-Bureaucracy: J.E.C. Chart Shows Speaker Pelosi's New Bill Will Create Unprecedented Health Care Labyrinth
Posted by GOP Leader Press Office on November 7th, 2009

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The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) House Republican staff, which earlier this year created a chart mapping the bureaucratic complexity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's original health care proposal (H.R. 3200), has combined similar analysis by the House Republican Conference with the earlier chart.  The analysis details new additions to the health care bureaucracy contained in the new version of the Speaker's bill (H.R. 3962) that were not previously listed.  Let's just say the Speaker's vision for government-run health care hasn't gotten any simpler.

"This is the blueprint for a taxpayer-funded mega-bureaucracy," said House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH).  "The new chart is an astonishing and unsettling glimpse of the future that awaits American health care, should H.R. 3962 be passed by the House and signed into law."

The chart, completed at the direction of Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), the committee's ranking House Republican Member, shows that the Pelosi plan has grown even more complex in the months since it was originally unveiled by congressional Democrats.  The new bill - expected to be brought to a vote in the House as early as Saturday - contains all of the bureaucracy of the original plan, plus a whole lot more, the chart illustrates.  The full chart can be seen here:

"The American people have spoken.  They don't want their health care replaced by massive government bureaucracy.  This chart shows the Democratic leadership hasn't listened," Boehner said.  "Instead of starting over on a common-sense plan to improve our health care system, Speaker Pelosi and her allies have created a bureaucratic beast that will end the American health care system as we know it.  I commend Ranking House Republican Brady and his team for illustrating what's at stake."

In addition to establishing the Mother of All Bureaucracies, House Republicans note, the Pelosi health care bill will kill millions of small business jobs at a time when our nation's unemployment rate has exceeded 10 percent.  It will also cut Medicare, pile massive debt on future generations, increase Americans' health care costs, and use federal funds to pay for abortion.

Republicans have offered a better solution: a common-sense, step-by-step approach to health care reform, which can be seen in full legislative text at http://healthcare.gop.gov/.