Conservative gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo said health care exchanges that the state of Colorado is required to create under ObamaCare would create new, dysfunctional bureaucracies that would get in the way of delivering health care.

“Health care exchanges are an exercise in futility because of the bureaucratic restrictions,” Tancredo told viewers of a debate among three gubernatorial candidates on Channel 12. “We should say that there is a big picture that Colorado needs to reform health care to extent that we can under Federal restrictions. We need to eliminate restrictions on insurers so we can choose insurers other than those state allows in the state,” Tancredo said.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes didn’t seem to know what health exchanges are.

Obama Democrat John Hickenlooper said he would involve the public in designing the exchanges. That means, in effect, that he would let health care industry and government employee unions join highly-paid and motivated lobbyists from the health insurance and provider industries design the exchanges to meet their needs, not the needs of patients and insurance buyers. When the government gets the “public” involved in designing programs and writing laws, industry and union lobbyists soon gain control of the process. They are paid to attend “community” meetings while the general public and consumers don’t have or take the time to attend them or have much of an influence on the proceedings.

Under ObamaCare, each state would create a health care exchange where consumers would buy health insurance that met expensive and unworkable standards set by highly-paid bureaucrats in Washington.