The Patriot Post® · 1,296 Pages of Regulations

“As Americans scrambled ahead of the July Fourth holiday weekend on Thursday afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services released 1,296 pages of new regulations dealing with payment rates to doctors and hospitals,” reports the Washington Examiner. “The release came at 4:15 p.m.” It’s become an almost comical pattern – it would be funny if not so serious – for the “most transparent administration in history” to dump onerous regulations when no one is looking. Since regulations are simply another form of taxation, it’s fair to say Barack Obama breaks two promises with every one of these surreptitious releases. More…