Federal Health Care: Creating Dozens of New Bureaucracies

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, P.L. 111-148, March 23, 2010) creates, requires others to create, or authorizes dozens of new entities to implement the legislation. The precise number of new entities that will ultimately be created pursuant to PPACA is currently unknowable, for the number of entities created by some sections is contingent upon other factors, and some new entities may satisfy more than one requirement in the legislation. (Read the report…)

Click here to download the list of bureaucracies that will be created.

Track the implementation of the federal health care law and read certified copies of the enacted legislation on our timeline.

RELATED POSTS:

1. Health Care Reform Legislation Timeline
   To better understand the bill, the Alaska Policy Forum has compiled a timeline that outlines the legislation's implementation....
   
   
2. Audio: The Ideology Behind Federal Health Care Reform
   Burke Balch explains how the federal health care law was passed to avoid a two-tiered system and about The Darthmouth Atlas and how it is...
   
   
3. Idaho first state to pass legislation prohibiting federal health care reform
   Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter was the first to sign a piece of legislation into law which would prohibit the federal government from requiring citizens...
   
   
4. Audio: Federal Health Care Law would create more paperwork than IRS could handle
   In the morass of new health care restrictions, rules and regulations in the federal law is a requirement that could greatly increase the amount of...
   
   
5. Health Care: IRS to mop up mandates mess left by Congress
   (CNNMoney.com) -- With a new mandate looming that will require business owners to file millions more tax forms, the Internal Revenue Service has begun the...