Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and Representative Kevin Brady of Texas joined forces to lead the creation of a detailed chart that graphically lays out the “bewildering array of new government agencies, regulations and mandates” that make up Obamacare. Unfortunately, only about one-third of the actual complexity of the bill would fit on the chart – yet that is frightening enough. [Click on picture for full sized PDF]

Writing for Bloomberg, Kevin Hassett observes that the resulting chart is “a terrifying road map that shows Democrats have launched America on the most reckless policy experiment in its history, the economic equivalent of the Bay of Pigs invasion.”

The new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements. …

Based on the administration’s own numbers, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates.

Those mandates also might make your health care more expensive. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that premiums for a small number of families who buy their insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100.

The central Obamacare mechanism for increasing insurance coverage is an expansion of the Medicaid program. Of the 30 million new people covered, 16 million will be enrolled in Medicaid. And you could end up in the program whether you want it or not. The bill states that people who apply for coverage through the new exchanges or who apply for premium-subsidy credits will automatically be enrolled in Medicaid if they qualify.

There’s more. Read it all to understand the true impact – or at least as much of the impact that we understand at the moment. Never underestimate the effect of the Law of Unintended Consequences.

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