I’ve certainly complained about Obamacare from a fiscal perspective, warning that it means higher taxes and more spending.
And I’ve also warned that it will make our health care system less efficient and could lead to some of the horrifying examples of rationing and poor care that you find in the United Kingdom (scroll to the bottom of this post for some shocking examples).
But if you need another reason to be upset, it turns out that Obamacare is going to be a very lucrative gig for a new crop of government bureaucrats.
Here are some very disturbing details from the Pueblo Chieftan in Colorado.
Eye-popping salaries proposed for employees of the health benefits exchange being formed in Colorado grabbed the attention of Republicans and Democrats alike on Thursday. A subcommittee of the board charged with establishing the exchange is considering a draft budget for its federal grant application that would create 24 positions and pay those employees a total of more than $3 million annually to manage the health care cooperative. The average annual salary of a health benefits exchange employee would exceed $125,000 under the plan. …“We have executive directors (of state departments) that are in charge of thousands of people here that make significantly less than that,” said Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs. …A Democrat on the committee overseeing enactment of health benefits exchange legislation in the state agreed that the figures are worthy of scrutiny. …Under the health care overhaul, states were required to establish exchanges. Colorado authorized its exchange this year in SB200.
Keep in mind that the $125,000 figure is an average, which means many of the bureaucrats will be getting much bigger paychecks.
And also remember that we’re talking Colorado, not someplace like New York City where the cost of living is a bit higher.
Even more important, the article refers to the “average annual salary,” which means it probably doesn’t include the gold-plated benefit packages that are far more generous than generally available in the private sector (state and local bureaucrats, for instance, make out like bandits on pensions).
And to show that this story is just the tip of the iceberg, let’s recycle my video about overpaid government bureaucrats.
And if all the data in the video doesn’t convince you, check out this chart.
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Yup… not a bug, but a feature. Scratch a Democrat, find a Stalinist. (Orwell was right.)
Fascism is good for your career… invest everybody else’s freedom.
I’m with teapartydoc……….we would be better off without government intervention!
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The medical-industrial complex is salivating over the prospect of being able to screw the public to an even greater extent than ever. Believe me. I’m part of it. Your only real defense is to stop government licensing of health care workers (all licensing, really).
It’s a feature, not a bug.
The health insurance industry signed on to Obamacare to get those jobs. They did not want to be in the insurance business. Administering other people’s money is a lot more rewarding.
The only silver lining in all this is that those jobs are so mind numbingly boring and full of paper shuffling that few people of real talent are even willing to do them. No wonder the lowest of the low are hired to fill them.Would you want that job 5/30/365?Not me,you would literally have to hold a gun to my head.And BTW, this theory of mine explains how these entities always end up so FUBAR that they always go sideways in trying to succeed at the chosen task.
The NHS actually brags about being one of the world’s single largest employers, right up there with Indian Rail and the Red Army. Glenn Reynolds is quite right about it being a feature, not a bug.
http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/detailed/careers-in-management/
ObamaCare will be child’s play compared to the bureaucracies created for Dodd Frank. It is almost as if those were the plans all along.
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What’s another 24 bureaucrats, highly paid or not, to oversee redistribution from thousands to thousands. Small change to pay for access to a large loot. Looks like Americans have finally figured out how democracy works.
When X decides how resources (ex. healthcare) are accessed by Y, call it an end to the freedoms enjoyed by Y, and a proportionate increase in the power and prestige of X. This can never be a society of “equals” and will be more unfair than all the unfairness dreamed up by the likes of Obama.