{"id":1804,"date":"2009-11-04T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2009-11-04T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:45:38","slug":"big-health-care-big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1804\/big-health-care-big-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Health Care, Big Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi\u2019s attempt at a government takeover of health care weighs in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/106xx\/doc10688\/hr3962Rangel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1,990 pages<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0  However, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1703\/revenue-provisions-in-health-care-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a few<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1696\/major-tax-provisions-in-house-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">reading guides<\/span><\/a> available to save your eyes, and your sanity.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.gov\/policy-news\/09\/11\/02\/new-federal-bureaucracies-created-in\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">House Republican Conference<\/span><\/a> has done the dirty work and compiled a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs created in the House health care bill.\u00a0  There are over 111.\u00a0  Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> \u201cPublic Health Insurance Option\u201d (Section 321, p. 211)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Ombudsman for \u201cPublic Health Insurance Option\u201d (Section 321(d), p. 213)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Demonstration program providing reimbursement for \u201cculturally and linguistically appropriate services\u201d (Section 1222, p. 617)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Section 1907, p. 1198)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Healthy Teen Initiative grant program regarding teen pregnancy (Section 2526, p. 1398)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Program of Indian community education on mental illness (Section 3101, p. 1722)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Urban youth treatment center demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1873)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi\u2019s attempt at a government takeover of health care weighs in at 1,990 pages.\u00a0 However, there are a few reading guides available to save your eyes, and your sanity. The House Republican Conference has done the dirty work and compiled a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[423,12,36,43],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-h-r-3962","tag-health-care","tag-pelosi","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}