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2486.\\ As If There Were Any Doubt...

David Harsanyi deconstructs the 2000 page omnibus health bill in an article from the Denver Post last week.

I just don't understand how something with a $1.2 Trillion price tag will reduce our deficit. I also fail to see how half a million words outlining new regulations, taxes, fees, mandates, penalties and bureaucracy could possibly make health care faster, cheaper and better (hell I'd settle for any one of those three).

Best bit:

As you flip through the pages of the House bill, you will notice the word "regulation" appears 181 times. "Tax" is there 214 times. "Fees," 103 times. As we all know, nothing says "affordability" like higher taxes and fees. The word "shall" - as in "must" or "required to" - appears over 3,000 times.

God help us. Although I suppose in the near future I'll be required to say "Government help us".

Reported by Christo the Elder on November 4, 2009 @ 12:39

 TAGGED AS: David Harsanyi, Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Orwellian, Taxes

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