Senator Makes Preposterous Health Care Claim

Senator and contributing author of the Senate version of ObamaCare, Max Baucus took to the Senate floor Wednesday and asserted,

This bill does not increase government.

So far, Liberty Works has identified 55 new commissions, demonstrations, councils, programs and bureaucracies in the latest Senate bill:

1.    Sec. 1321. State flexibility in operation and enforcement of Exchanges and related requirements.
2.    Sec. 1343. Transitional reinsurance program for individual and small group markets
3.    Sec. 1322. Federal program to assist establishment of nonprofit health insurance issuers.
4.    Sec. 2705. Medicaid Global Payment System Demonstration Project.
5.    Sec. 2706. Pediatric Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project.
6.    Sec. 2707. Medicaid emergency psychiatric demonstration project.
7.    Sec. 2801. MACPAC assessment of policies affecting all Medicaid beneficiaries.
8.    Sec. 2951. Maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs.
9.    Sec. 3001. Hospital Value-Based purchasing program.
10.   Sec. 3003. Improvements to the physician feedback program.

11.    Sec. 3004. Quality reporting for long-term care, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, and hospice.
12.   Sec. 3005. Quality reporting for PPS-exempt cancer hospitals.
13.   Sec. 3006. Value-Based purchasing program for nursing facilities and home health agencies. 14.   Sec. 3008. Payment adjustment for conditions acquired in hospitals.

15.    Sec. 3012. Interagency Working Group on Health Care Quality.
16.    Sec. 3021. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation within CMS.
17.    Sec. 3022. Medicare shared savings program.
18.    Sec. 3023. National pilot program on payment bundling.
19.    Sec. 3024. Independence at home demonstration program.
20.    Sec. 3025. Hospital readmissions reduction program.
21.    Sec. 3026. Community-Based Care Transitions Program.
22.   Sec. 3123. Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program.
23.    Sec. 3140. Medicare hospice concurrent care demonstration program
24.    Sec. 3301. Medicare coverage gap discount program.
25.    Sec. 3403. Independent Medicare Advisory Board.
26.    Sec. 3506. Program to facilitate shared decision-making
27.    Sec. 3508. Demonstration program to integrate quality…health professionals
28.    Sec. 3510. Patient Navigator Program.
29.    Sec. 4001. National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council.
30.    Sec. 4206. Demonstration Project Concerning Individualized Wellness Plan.
31.    Sec. 4303. CDC And Employer-Based Wellness Programs.
32.    Sec. 4306. Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project.
33.    Sec. 5101. National Health Care Workforce Commission.
34.    Sec. 5202. Nursing student loan program
35.    Sec. 5203. Health care workforce loan repayment program.
36.    Sec. 5207. National Health Service Corps.
37.    Sec. 5210. Ready Reserve Corps.
38.    Sec. 5304. Alternative Dental Health Care Providers Demonstration Project.
39.    Sec. 5204. Public Health Workforce Recruitment And Retention Programs.
40.    Sec. 5205. Allied Health Workforce Recruitment And Retention Programs.
41.    Sec. 5310. Loan Repayment And Scholarship Program.
42.    Sec. 5311. Nurse Faculty Loan Program.
43.    Sec. 5405. Primary Care Extension Program.
44.    Sec. 6112. National independent monitor demonstration project.
45.    Sec. 6114. National demonstration projects on culture change and use of information technology in nursing homes.
46.    Sec. 6201. Nationwide program for National and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities and providers.
47.    Sec. 6302. Federal coordinating council for comparative effectiveness research.
48.    Sec. 6411. Expansion of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program
49.    Sec. 8002. CLASS Act
50.    Sec. 1341. Transitional reinsurance program for individual and small group markets in each State.
51.    Sec. 1342. Establishment of risk corridors for plans in individual and small group markets.
52.    Sec. 1514. Reporting of employer health insurance coverage program.
53.    Sec. 2401. Community First Choice Option.
54.    Sec. 2704. Demonstration project to evaluate integrated care around a hospitalization.
55.    Sec. 2403. Money Follows the Person Re-balancing Demonstration.