The title of this thread is misleading. There is nothing "simple" about this 2700+ page law.

If you've ever tried reading it, you quickly see that there is everything but the kitchen sink embedded in and tangled up in this healthcare FINANCE--not health CARE--package.

As the endless confusion and quagmire of this massive health finance package unfolds, here is one of the biggest reasons many of us dread how all of our health care will be hugely affected, adversely:

What IS scandalous and the President is silent about this “unelected issue” is this…

by Greta Van Susteren

April 2 2012 - 3:29 PM ET

The Supreme Court has the power to review the constitutionality of the health care law (and any other law) Marbury v. Madison, Supreme Court, 1803. So do not be disturbed by them reviewing the health care law. That IS their job.

What may disturb you is that not one member of Congress READ the bill before voting for it…and the President sure didn’t read it before he SIGNED it.

But, to get to the President’s point about ‘unelected officials’ (see prior posting) – AND WHAT IS SCANDALOUS – is that after the 2700 page law was signed by the President, it got sent to HHS for them to create rules to implement.

Those who are writing these rules – and there are thousands of rules expected – are not only NOT elected, we don’t ever learn their names.

They are simply government employees at the HHS with ENORMOUS power over your lives and you have zero say about it. You can’t vote them out of office – they aren’t elected and you don’t know their names!

Yes, THAT is scandalous because they have so much power over your life. Congress – our elected officials – should write the rules. They are answerable to us. (End of Greta Van Susteren's commentary)

Now read this, from a different essay writer:

(excerpt)...The birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration. This tactic was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have sole discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing thousands of pages of regulations they, and not Congress, would subsequently write.

For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do something, and more than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion some form of regulatory action.

On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the "Secretary determines." In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.

American Thinker- Print Article

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