New health-care rules multiply man-hours for policymakers, bureaucratsN.C. Aizenman
Written by Written by Rob Lillpopp on June 3, 2010 – 5:40 am

N.C. Aizenman of the Washington Post writes - “At the Department of Health and Human Services, the team charged with writing new health insurance rules has ditched the fridge and microwave in their break room so they can have more work space.

At the Labor Department, a clue to the hours staff members are keeping is offered by the motion-activated lights in the hallways. They are on by 6 a.m. and don’t flicker off until long after dark.

The health-care overhaul may have slipped from the headlines since President Obama signed the bill into law in March. But the gargantuan chore of putting the statute’s more than 2,000 pages of provisions into practice is keeping Washington’s policymakers and bureaucrats busier than ever.”

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