Clear Explanation of the Health Care Bill

This is probably the clearest explanation of the Health Care bill that I have seen. It is long and has several graphs and pictures (Particularly illustrative is the one showing the bureaucratic structure created by the bill) so I didn't copy and paste it here. Instead you'll have to visit this LINK. If you have ever wanted a clear explanation of the actual bill (If you're like me and started to look at the summary of the bill and didn't get it and didn't want to read the hundreds of pages then you too have probably been relying on the various media outlets' highlights) from someone who really gets it, then this is it. For full disclosure the author uses as a main source the Heritage Foundation which is a very conservative group and the author works for fortune 500 companies consulting them on the benefits they offer. So obviously they are very biased, but hey, so am I since my costs went up due to the bill.

One of the criticisms that I heard, which really stuck, during the presidential campaign was that President Obama had pushed as a senator a bill for equal rights for women in the workplace, which would have required all companies to submit to a government agency the number of workers on their payroll, their salaries, and the explanation of differences in pay if there were any (I know there was a consequence if the person monitoring it thought there was an inequality, but I can't remember what it was). The article I was reading referred to it as being the same as using a sledgehammer instead of a flyswatter to kill a fly. Their main point was that if elected President Obama was likely to follow the same pattern and overshoot or miss completely the mark on the major issues of the day.

To me, this Health Care bill was similar to his previous work only, instead of a sledgehammer it's as if they just decided to bulldoze the house the fly was in. Hopefully more of it can continue to be repealed.