Why I Oppose the HCR Bill: A Moving Target
Nancy Pelosi:
You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Emphasis added (by Reason magazine), and it speaks for itself. No matter what they tell you about the bill, they’re not telling you everything. No matter what they say it’ll cost, they won’t say all of it. "Trust us to overhaul the health care insurance industry, with a bill made with back-room deals with unions, and bribes for votes."
Yeah, right. It’s huge and it’s shrouded, and it’s a classic carnival huckster method. How can people actually fall for this?
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The bill is right there. All you have to do is read it. It’s not a mystery unless you never learned to read.
Well, reading and comprehending a 2000+ page bill of legalese may be easy enough for you, but for most folks this is a bit beyond them. This is why we wait for our Congressmen to explain it. But if they won’t until after the bill is signed, well, that seems rather self-serving.
And if we wait for the media to help out, well, they seem to be on the same schedule as the Democrats, figuring out just today that it will cost companies billions.
It is huge, and that’s part of the shroud.