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Offline Chris_

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Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« on: August 02, 2010, 10:54:50 AM »
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Four months after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,"a congressional panel has released the first chart illustrating the 2,801 page health care law President Obama signed into law in March.

Developed by the Joint Economic Committee minority, led by U.S Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, the detailed organization chart displays a bewildering array of new government agencies, regulations and mandates.

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."
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx08_brady/pr_100728_hc_chart.html

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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2010, 12:23:32 PM »
Oh. My. Freaking. Gawd.   :mental:
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2010, 12:24:44 PM »
So where's Waldo?  Or better yet, the detonator?
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2010, 01:44:09 PM »
Hmmmm, so that's where jobs are being created ?
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2010, 02:13:13 PM »
I've seen wiring diagrams that were less confusing.
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2010, 02:18:32 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on August 02, 2010, 02:13:13 PM
I've seen wiring diagrams that were less confusing.

Actually the board schematics for an old 16-bit computer card would be a good match.
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2010, 02:29:53 PM »
I think the Afghanistan spaghetti slide is simpler than that. Holy hell.
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2010, 02:32:14 PM »
Here's the scary part: "This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill. It’s actually worse than this."

Full-size chart
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2010, 02:57:31 PM »
Just the research to put that chart together must've cost millions.

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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2010, 04:30:51 PM »
we are soooo screwed.  :censored:
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2010, 06:08:35 PM »
Holy shit--it's worse than Death By Powerpoint AND Death By Unga-Bunga COMBINED.

It's DEATH BY POWERUNGABUNGA!!!!
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2010, 06:09:53 PM »
:rofl:

As long as it's not Death by Snoo Snoo.
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2010, 06:13:24 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on August 02, 2010, 06:09:53 PM
:rofl:

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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2010, 06:19:21 PM »
Quote from: Mike220 on August 02, 2010, 06:13:24 PM
Futurama is the shit.

I'm not really enjoying the new season.  Meh.
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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2010, 06:21:33 PM »
Would rather it look like this...

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Re: Updated chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2010, 06:23:03 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on August 02, 2010, 06:19:21 PM
I'm not really enjoying the new season.  Meh.

It's not as good as the old ones, but I'm just chalking that up to being off the air for several years. I'm hoping it gets better though.
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