› The Cost of Bureaucracy

By Steve Schultz, OperationRedState.com

With the health bill that passed the Senate in a last minute desperate attempt to say they “did something”, there were changes that will take months to cover.  One of which, of course, is the fee you’re going to have to pay if you are uninsured.  You will be penalized for choosing not to have insurance. In other words, the government will be unconstitutionally forcing you to purchase health care one way or another.

The question has been how will this be monitored and enforced.  Well, the bill that passed the Senate and is still pending final passage has placed this responsibility on the IRS.  That’s right.  Your favorite “tax man” is now your new “healthcare enforcement agent.”  The IRS is given a budget of $11.5 billion per year.  Already a huge waste of money.  Now, by merely adding the responsibility of enforcing health care penalties they will require an additional $10 billion which will only cover them for the first decade.

This is the cost of bureaucracy. We add one responsibility onto an agency and the cost goes up $10 billion.  What I find incredibly asinine from this bill and this healthcare penalty is that if the IRS is only monitoring and enforcing, all those illegal immigrants get a “get out of jail” card free.  Illegal immigrants who have been taxing our financial system for years can show up to the hospital with no insurance, get free healthcare and walk out the door without any penalty.  Meanwhile, if you opt to not have insurance your toast.  You’re going to go to the doctor, pay out of pocket for your care and then get taxed for paying outright for your healthcare.

It seems Congress and the Whitehouse cannot help themselves when it comes to making government bigger, less efficient and more moronic.  And they do it at what cost?

There were so many opportunities Congress had to fix the healthcare system and they managed to not fix it at all after weeks of debate and who knows how many wasted dollars.  This irresponsibility must end now.