By now, millions of Americans are familiar with Anita Dunn, who recently resigned her post as Barack Obama's White House Communications Director after it was learned that she had previously cited Mao Zedong, the late Communist dictator and mass murderer, as one of her "favorite political philosophers." By contrast, few people know anything substantive about Dunn's husband, Robert Bauer, who has replaced Gregory Craig as President Obama's White House Counsel. Craig resigned abruptly on November 13, after having repeatedly denied, for weeks, that he had any plans of stepping down.

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More Insane Acts by Congress on Health Care

The "Secretary" is mentioned 2500 times in the Reid "Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act".  The most common mention is for the Secretary of Health and Human Services who is granted extensive new powers in the bill (along with the Secretary of the Treasury).  The Bill consistently describes creation of a bureaucratic infrastructure to interfere in the patient physician relationship specifically designed to drastically reduce spending on patients prescribed by doctors for their benefit. Coupled with the massive increase in health insurance premiums and taxes, the whole bill is more properly labeled the "Patient Assault and Expensive Health Care Act".

COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ALL TAX HIKES IN SENATE GOVERNMENT HEALTH BILL: H.R. 3590

The following information is provided by Americans for Tax Reform

Read the full bill   Read the tax revenue score from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)

Read the budget and tax score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)  PDF of this Document

Individual Mandate Tax (Page 324/Sec. 1501/$8 bil): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying "qualifying" health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the following schedule

Early Analysis ......More to Come

An Act of Congress?  More Like Multiple Acts of Insanity. - Part I

We have all heard about how it takes an "act of Congress" to make major changes.  Well the Senator Reid's so called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" is more like an act of medical, fiscal and Congressional Insanity than a solution to any problem. The underlying theme of the bill, as in the House bill, is to grant broad and inappropriate powers to the government to define medical quality and create a cost-control regime directly intended to cut spending on needed medical care.