Jim DeMint in Fed Up!, by Rick Perry


On Health Care: ObamaCare: a byzantine network of 159 federal programs

Obamacare raises our taxes, empowers the IRS to enforce the plan's provisions, funds abortion, and widely expands the administrative state and federal deficit spending. Sen. DeMint (R-SC) called Obamacare "a bureaucratic nightmare; a byzantine network of 159 new federal programs and bureaucracies to make decisions that should be between just the patient and their doctor." He is right.

The problem with Obamacare is that federal bureaucrats will be empowered to ration care and make important decisions about our health--even in matters of life and death. Two new bureaucracies have been established--the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Independent Payment Advisory Board--which will soon have the final word on what constitutes "good" medicine. The importance of power of this board is hardly being hidden by the Obama administration.

The net result of this will be government bureaucrats--not your doctor--deciding what the right treatment is for you.

Source: Fed Up!, by Gov. Rick Perry, p. 80 Nov 15, 2010

The above quotations are from Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington.
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