Pelosi Bill Would Create Super-Powered Czar

By: Ernest Istook (Diary)  |  October 30th at 04:23 PM  | 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill would create a health czar with the equivalent of super-powers–supported by a super-size bureaucracy. Under the 1,990-page $1.1-trillion+plus legislation, a presidential appointee will both control the new government-run insurance plan AND decide how private insurance companies must operate. Likewise, employer-run health plans would answer to this super-czar. In other words, this health czar will control both the government plan | Read More »