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07-16-2009, 08:56 PM
Last April the President signed an Executive Order establishing the White House Office of Health Reform (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Executive-Order-Establishing-The-White-House-Office-Of-Health-Reform/).
Now, we seem to be heading in blitzkrieg fashion to passage of a Health Care Reform bill with broad authority, oversight, micro-management of health care insurers, and impacts on other-business activities. Once (if?) this bill becomes law, the size of the federal effort to implement this law will involve many thousands of people.
The last time such an executive order happened like this one, it established the Office of Homeland Security. That evolved into a full-fledged Department once the Homeland Security Act passed in 2002. Even though there were other Departments which could have taken over this Office and its responsibilities, a new Department was created, complete with a few hundred new political appointee positions. While there is a current Department of Health and Human Services, the potential of that Department morphing into two Departments (Health AND Human Services) is very real.
So, how many more people will the government hire when the Office of Health Reform expands? Are these the jobs that the bailout was supposed to create?
Now, we seem to be heading in blitzkrieg fashion to passage of a Health Care Reform bill with broad authority, oversight, micro-management of health care insurers, and impacts on other-business activities. Once (if?) this bill becomes law, the size of the federal effort to implement this law will involve many thousands of people.
The last time such an executive order happened like this one, it established the Office of Homeland Security. That evolved into a full-fledged Department once the Homeland Security Act passed in 2002. Even though there were other Departments which could have taken over this Office and its responsibilities, a new Department was created, complete with a few hundred new political appointee positions. While there is a current Department of Health and Human Services, the potential of that Department morphing into two Departments (Health AND Human Services) is very real.
So, how many more people will the government hire when the Office of Health Reform expands? Are these the jobs that the bailout was supposed to create?