“We’re taking a closer look at it to see what exactly the requirement will be,” said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the main industry lobby.

Because they’ll drop children like a rock in a high risk pool if they can get away with it and pad their bottom line. Health care won’t be reformed until health is considered before profit.

Darn that Center for Medicare and Medicaid Management.

Well, it seems that they’ve mislead me. So…I misread the facts. Combine number of pages is about 132,000 pages.

When GWB was running for election…he displayed 132,000 pages of regulation, etc…and, well, you can see below his comments.

Quote: Bush pointed to the “132,000-page document.. Bush said during the debates, “The idea of supporting a federally controlled, 132,000 page document bureaucracy as being … the only compassionate source of care for seniors is just not my vision.”

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2000/12/5/gop-calls-medicare-rules-voluminous.aspx

Lets step back in history to 2005

According to a 2005 108th Congress Report – Page 146

“Reglatory burden.—A major reason for the skyrocketing cost of
health care is the regulatory burden that government is placing on
the health care system, often without regard to the costs of that
regulation. Thirty different federal agencies regulate hospitals and
medical care, in addition to many other regulations created by local
and State governments and private-sector accrediting bodies. There
are at least 132,000 pages of regulation in CMS alone, compared
to only 93,000 pages of regulation for the tax code. A study by
Duke University has estimated that at least $128 billion per year
is wasted by this regulatory burden. These costs are unnecessarily
being borne by employers and employees through increased health
care premiums, as well as by taxpayers through higher program
expenditures.”

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_reports&docid=f:hr636.108.pdf

GL,

Call me silly, but I guess I believed the sources cited above.

I like the way your post describes how government controls the citizens. “Con the congregation whilst on their bleeding knees.”

Defining the “Con” as being the promise to treat and dress those bleeding knees under the conditions setforth by the band-aid manufacturers, also known as “the Ventriloquist” that manipulates the mouth of government to make the declaration it will save us all from the tyranny of disease…

Well hell, Bryan – that makes for the perfect storm to shuttle along, at the speed of light, a radical new law, that nobody understands but the band-aid company.

I’m gonna write that down, might want to use that someday. That pretty much tells it like it is…has been, and probably will be for sometime to come.

Hmmm, I think I just implied that we have a gullible society. Did I dooo that?