Halloween may be over, but the Health Care Zombie has only just started clawing at his grave. And his stench is only becoming more noisome as the days goes by.

As the Pelosi “deadline” for the House vote on her bloated, $1.2 trillion health care “reform” package approaches, (vote scheduled to take place on Thursday night/Friday) more details of this FedZilla monstrosity of a bill are coming to light.

Side Note: At 1,990 pages and a cost of $1.2 trillion, that is a cost of $603,015,075.38 per page. I wonder where the howls of Earth First/Man Last are? I can think of better uses for all of that paper. And I am sure you can, too. And without using one curse word to boot.

From FOX News: (Hat Tip – FC)

House Republicans claimed Monday that the health care reform bill pushed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi would create a whopping 111 new “federal bureaucracies.”

In its latest attempt to portray the Democrats’ reform package as an unwieldy expansion of federal government in the health care sector, the House Republican Conference circulated what it called a list of “new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs” created in the House health care bill.

Among some off the new agencies, the list cites a Health Insurance Exchange; the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; the Public Health Investment Fund; the Public Health Workforce Corps; an Assistant Secretary for Health Information; the Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health; grant programs for alternative medical liability laws, infant mortality programs and other issues; and about 100 other government-sponsored creations.

“That ought to tell you all that we need to know, that we’re going to have 1,990 pages of legislation,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said in an interview Sunday. “The word ’shall’ exists in this bill 3,345 times.”

The list underscores the GOP complaint that the health care reform bill over-burdens taxpayers and the government itself. Republicans said Monday they plan to read aloud the massive bill — in the space of four hours — on the House floor Tuesday.

A Democratic source dismissed the list of “bureaucracies” as an exaggeration, calling them “demonstration projects” instead.

“Demonstration projects”. Ha! Another long-used Marxist Cloak Term that means a new bureaucracy and therefore, more bureaucrats. As Reagan said, a government bureaucracy is the closest thing to Eternal Life. Just as “city bonds” are just another term for “raising taxes”. Which, incidentally, is why I vote against every bond that appears on any ballot I fill out.

Also, if you can make it, be sure to attend Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s Rally on the Capitol Steps on Thursday.

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