ObamaCare Madness
[F]or the better part of a year states and groups like the bipartisan National Governors Association and the National Association of Medicaid Directors have been begging HHS merely for information about how they’re required to make ObamaCare work in practice…Louisiana and other states even took to filing Freedom of Information Act requests, which are still pending.
Now post-election, new regulations are pouring out from HHS — more than 13,000 pages so far and yet nuts-and-bolts questions are still unanswered. Most of what we know so far comes from a 17-page question-and-answer document that HHS divulged this week, though none of the answers have the force of law and HHS says they’re subject to change at any moment.
More on ObamaCare’s implementation downfall in the WSJ.
“13,000 pages so far”
Who writes all these regulations? And how could anyone think having over 13,000 of rules and laws be a goof thing?
“HHS is treating the states not as the partners it needs to give ObamaCare any chance of success, but as serfs.”
Federalism is dead.
I cannot help but think that 13,000 pages of regulations is indicative that the regulation writers are writing poorly or they wouldn’t need that many pages to get their points across. There is no way in Hell that state Medicaid directors and state HHS departments can actually follow 13,000 pages. There cannot be much flexibility if there are 13,000 pages.
That’s alot of paper work…
I find the fact that the HHS regulations alone break 13,000 pages, while the citizens regulations for the government -the U.S. Constitution – are a mere 21 pages in common font.
“if we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Thomas Cooper. 1802.
It’s called obfuscation, and it’s intentional.