Red tape expands under Obamacare

And in the following story, Rush pointed out that for 6 pages of Obamacare, the regulations to govern it consisted of 429 pages.

This is just getting ridiculous.

There's an old saying - people who don't learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. There's another old saying - it's better to learn from other people's mistakes, rather than your own.

There's nationalized care in practically every country in Europe - which doesn't work to well. Take Japan, for example - at least, prior to their current tragedy. They may have got "free" health care, but their families had to bring in food for the patient and do all the things that nurses in the US do for those.

As for England...that's been messed up since its inception. Check out the movie National Health if you want to see how messed up it was decades ago - and it hasn't improved.

So why in the world did Democrats pass Obamacare?

Story #3: Obamacare Regulations Fill Hundreds of Pages

RUSH: I can't believe this. Paul Bedard at the US News & World Report, he's got this column called Washington Whispers at US News & World, and this is stunning that he would report this 'cause they're part of State-Controlled Media. "Giving proof to Main Street's worries that President Obama's healthcare reform will lead to thousands of new and costly regulations --" folks, listen to this now "-- the Department of Health and Human Services has taken one small section of the law and written enough new rules to every page of Obama's campaign book, The Audacity of Hope -- plus another 45 pages." The way to synthesize this, six pages of the Obamacare law have ended up as 429 pages of regulations.

"Section 3022 of the law, which is about the Medicare shared savings program, take up just six pages in the 907-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But HHS has turned that into 429 pages of new regulations and that's too much, says Republican Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, a practicing doctor. 'Regulations increase the cost of doing business,' he says. He distributed a fact sheet on the book of regulations to fellow Republicans this week." Now, stop and think of this, and this shouldn't be a surprise if you paid attention. The phrase in the health care book, "as the secretary shall determine" is littered throughout Obamacare. So six pages in section 3022, six pages entitling or empowering the Health and Human Services department. They have already written 429 pages, new pages of regulations, out of six pages of the health care bill. So what was a 2200-page health care bill is now a 2600-page health care bill. And that's just from one section.

I want to say this again. Six pages of Section 3022 of Obamacare has permitted Health and Human Services to create new regulations that require 429 pages to print. That is the clearest illustration I have yet seen of what a bureaucracy is and how they grow, what happens to them, particularly when they are under the command of Democrats.

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