Glenn Thompson: “They were appalled. And it has grown as these bills have been further proposed and developed in the back rooms among the…”

“They were appalled. And it has grown as these bills have been further proposed and developed in the back rooms among the Democratic leadership. The current set of new bureaucracies is somewhere around 130 new bureaucracies that have been created to dictate to that part of our lives called health care. I will just give you one example. In addition to just the imposing of the Federal Government among our personal lives and our personal decisions with health care, what it does to the cost of health care. Under the former Clinton administration, we wrote out HIPAA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and certainly no one can be opposed to maintaining privacy as it relates to health care. And portability, we would be much further along if that would have taken care of portability, if it was the right solution for taking your insurance with you when you change employers. I happen to think that type of portability is a positive thing. But the fact is that is what HIPAA did. And that was just one new bureaucracy that was created under HIPAA. The cost of providing health care because of HIPAA, I am sure that we could find many health care hospitals that will say, health care systems that actually probably laid off direct caregivers because they had to hire people to push papers, they had to hire people to be compliance people to be able to comply with all this massive new bureaucracy and the new regulations that were as a result of HIPAA.”