ObamaCare: To Be Determined...

One phrase is repeated ad nauseum in the Democrats' latest iteration of their health care legislation: "...to be determined by the Secretary."

The 1990 page Obama-Pelosi Health Care Tyranny Bill creates vast new powers for bureaucrats. Rather than taking the trouble to write a bill that creates carefully circumscribed rules and regulations, the House Democrats give unelected officials a big stack of blank checks.

Here are some of my "favorites":

• Rationing: "The Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or establishing waiting lists."

• Preventing tort reform: "The Secretary shall make an incentive payment, in an amount determined by the Secretary, to each State that has an alternative medical liability law in compliance with this section ...[if] the law does not limit attorneys’ fees or impose caps on damages."

• Defining health care: "The term 'health benefits' means medical, surgical, hospital, prescription drug, and such other benefits as shall be determined by the Secretary."

• Micromanaging hospitals: e.g., "The Secretary shall not permit an increase in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of a hospital under clause (i)..."

• Micromanaging random diseases: e.g., "The Secretary shall, to the extent practical, identify and implement policies promoting proper use of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening among Medicare beneficiaries at risk for such aneurysms."

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