Health Care Bill a Bloated Mess

Two-thousand page monster is 'irredeemable'

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 27, 2009 10:56 AM CST

(Newser) – The Senate heath care reform bill is an “irredeemable” mess that would create “an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency,” rails Charles Krauthammer. The problem with our system is that it’s complicated and inefficient, and therefore expensive. But the... Read full story »

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