While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was busy securing passage of the federal health care bill so we could “find out what’s in it,” she confidently predicted that it would boost the economy and that Americans would embrace its sweeping changes. …

Polls show that Americans like some specifics of the law, such as more universal coverage and coverage of pre-existing conditions. But they don’t like the complexity, control and economic dislocation the overall plan imposes. …

To put it bluntly, it’s a mess.

It assumes too much power.

… The law gives the new health care bureaucracy unprecedented, open-ended power to dictate the terms under which the system will operate. It authorizes thousands of new regulations, most of which have not even been written yet. Insurers, care providers, consumers have no idea what the shape is going to be. …

Free market? Fuggedaboudit.

It’s costly.

After claiming reform would save $143 billion over 10 years, proponents now admit – and figures confirm — that it will raise costs. “Bending the cost curve on health care is hard to do,” President Obama now explains.

… Lawmakers must deal with Obamacare before its tentacles are so enmeshed in the U.S. economy that they can’t be removed. …

The Cincinnati Enquirer