HOW I SEE IT: Who wins in health care mess? The IRS.

The biggest winner from the passage of Obama’s health care reform bill is not the American people but the Internal Revenue Service. The new bill will require the IRS to hire almost 17,000 new employees.

I don’t know a single person who enjoys dealing with the IRS, but thanks to Obamacare, the IRS will become 12 times more intrusive than it already is. Currently, Americans must deal with the IRS for an annual tax return and all the revisions required if it is not completed to their satisfaction. Under Obamacare, the IRS will be checking every month to see if we have health insurance acceptable to them, not to us. The IRS will levy fines if our insurance is not acceptable.

The Democrats have definitely become the party of government control and socialism. Obamacare heightens the control of the federal government in a major way. It is a government takeover of 18% of the American economy.

Not only is the government ruling over us in a much greater way, but also we have to pay them to rule over us. Our taxes will pay the 17,000 new IRS workers to reign over us. This seems to be the only way that Obama can create new jobs.

The Republicans’ health care bill would not require our taxes to pay more government workers and would have incorporated free-market ideas instead of a government takeover. Not a single Republican voted for the Obamacare bill.

The second biggest winner in Obamacare is the insurance industry. It’s ironic that after all the criticism directed at insurance companies by Obama that the insurance companies will now have more business than ever. This is because every American is now required by law to buy from the insurance companies.

The Republican idea of allowing insurance companies to operate across state lines would have lowered costs through more competition — without adding any administrative costs.

The abortion industry is also a winner. The conservative Democrats had insisted that they would not vote for Obamacare unless there were assurances in the bill that the Hyde Amendment would not be changed. Instead of getting this change in the bill, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., was promised an executive order stating that public funds would not be used for abortions.

But everyone agrees that an executive order does not trump statute and that Rep. Stupak really got nothing in exchange for his vote.

The National Right to Life Committee issued a scathing statement that this executive order “Does not correct any of the serious pro-abortion provisions in the bill.”