In addition to capturing the massive expansion of government and the overwhelming complexity of new regulations and taxes, the chart portrays:- $569 billion in higher taxes;
- $529 billion in cuts to Medicare;
- swelling of the ranks of Medicaid by 16 million;
- 17 major insurance mandates; and
- the creation of two new bureaucracies with powers to impose future rationing: the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payments Advisory Board.
Brady admits committee analysts could not fit the entire health care bill on one chart. "This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill. It's actually worse than this."
As it is, the JEC's chart is both an incredibly impressive piece of graphic design and a jaw-dropping glimpse of the health-care Hell that awaits the American people, unless they elect a new Congress to shutter this entire fiasco before it renders this republic irretrievably ill.
Even those who believe that government actively should heal the American people must wonder if that goal really required something this staggeringly convoluted.
- The private sector lost 7,837,000 jobs.
- Local-government employment dropped 128,000 - state governments shed 6,000.
- Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., boomed.
- Federal employment zoomed by 198,100 slots as Uncle Sam's workforce expanded by 10 percent.
Finally, USA Today on August 10 published this front-page
Federal benefits equal 395 percent of private-sector benefits.
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