Only in America does governmentalized health care remove one sixth of the private economy, impact small business hiring practices, require 16,500 new IRS agents, and give federal bonuses for feeding once personal data to feds-Mark Steyn

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12/14/12, "ObamaCare Will Bring Bureaucracy, Endless Rules And Coercion, But Improve Nothing," Mark Steyn, IBD

"No foreigner can even understand the American "health care" debate, which seems to any tourist casually surfing the news channels to involve everything but health care. Since World War II, government medical systems have taken hold in almost every developed nation, but only in America does the introduction of governmentalized health care impact small-business hiring practices and religious liberty,

and require 16,500 new IRS agents and federal bonuses for contributing to a national database

of seat-belt wearers.

Thus, Big Government American-style: Byzantine, legalistic, whimsical, coercive, heavy on the paperwork, and lacking the one consolation of statism — the great clarifying simplicity of universal mediocrity.

ObamaCare governmentalizes one-sixth of the U.S. economy — or the equivalent of the entire French economy. No one has ever attempted that before, not even the French. In parts of rural America it will quickly achieve a Platonic perfection: there will be untold legions of regulators, administrators and IRS collection agents,

but not a doctor or nurse in sight." (end of article) via Lucianne


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