1,968 Reasons Obamacare HAS To Be Repealed

A study came out recently about the powers given to the Secretary of Health under Obamacare - 1,968 new powers.  Conservative sources have all been talking about this new study, but it's doubtful that you've heard a thing about it from any liberal sources.  That doesn't mean that the information is false.  It's just typical of the liberal news sources and liberal bloggers to ignore what is clearly too much power being given to one person in the government.  They, like team Obama, have an agenda.

 

Here's some of what Newt Gingrich had to say about it:

1,968 Reasons to Repeal

 

If you had any doubt about the importance of repealing the health reform law, a new chart from the Center for Health Transformation will give you 1,968 reasons to repeal the bill.

The chart, titled "The New and Expanded Secretarial Powers in the Health Reform Law" reveals the ways in which the 2,700-page health reform law grants 1,968 powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Control over the largest single sector of the American economy (about 18% of GDP, or one out of every five dollars in the entire economy) and a matter of life and death for every American, will be handed over to one appointed bureaucrat.

 

Gingrich then lists the just five of the 1,968 powers given to the Secretary of health.  And he summarizes what that means.  Here are just the summary statements.

 

The Secretary will decide what clinical drugs seniors can access.

The Secretary will instruct physicians and nurses exactly how to give a drug to their patients in long-term care facilities.

The Secretary will determine how dentists and dental hygienists should examine your teeth.

The Secretary can overrule states on what insurance rates can be whether they like it or not.

The Secretary can use comparative effectiveness research to determine access to care for seniors, like they do for patients in the British National Health Service.

 

If that doesn't bother you, it should.  Here is the pdf file that shows all 1,968 powers given to the Secretary of health:

 

1,968 New and Expanded Secretarial Powers Under the Health Care Reform Law

 

And here is the video that Gingrich mentions in his article:  An excerpt of the interview by Phil Donahue of Milton Freidman in 1979.

 

As we all know, and Gingrich reminds us, power corrupts.  From his article:

 

Flushed with the promise of these 1,968 new grants of authority to her office, Secretary Sebelius recently made a series of threats to use one of these new powers to punish health insurance companies who have dared to tell the truth about how the health reform law has led to rate hikes for their customers.

The idea of an unelected bureaucrat using her power to punish those who exercise their right to free speech should be considered abhorrent in a society that values liberty.

 

More from the article:

No unelected bureaucrat should have this amount of power, whether he or she is in a Democratic or Republican administration.

The genius of the founding fathers is that they understood the fallen nature of man and designed a system of government to prevent any one person from being so powerful that he or she could violate the rights of any citizen.

Every step we take toward bigger and bigger government throws this delicate balance off kilter.

As Milton Friedman warns in this video clip,which has received over 1,000,000 hits on YouTube, giving power to bureaucrats to right the wrongs of society inevitably leads to worse results than that achieved by free people pursuing happiness on their own. “Where in the world do you find these angels,” Friedman asks “that are going to reorganize society for us?”

Considering the warning of Friedman and many more of history’s great thinkers on liberty, is it really any surprise that a political appointee would use new, unprecedented powers to reward friends and punish opponents?

The very fact that the Secretary is now so powerful that she can unilaterally punish opponents of the new healthcare law shows how dangerous this bill is to the freedom of the American people.

 

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"Giving power to bureaucrats to right the wrongs of society inevitably leads to worse results than that achieved by free people pursuing happiness on their own."

 

We would do well to remember those words.  They have always been true.

 

Start a letter writing and calling campaign again.  This law has to be repealed, for the good of us all.

 

And to the skeptics, just like Glenn Beck always says, "Don't believe me.  Check it out."

 

Facts are facts.

 

Oh, and if you're one who never clicks on links, here is more information from the article above:

 

Secretary Sebelius has also used her new powers to reward her friends. The Secretary has granted a number of companies exemptions from key requirements in Obamacare. More than a third of these companies’ employees are unionized compared to a mere 7% of the national workforce.

This administration does know how to reward its friends, doesn't it?