Jimmy W said:
From what I have read, this bill is still being debated. There is some talk of doing away with the government insurance part. How do you already know what the final bill will be?Jimmy
That's a fair question.
First of all, look back to the stimulus bills. They were passed in a hurry. They told us it was an emergency. That it had to be done
right now so as to save the economy. I don't think I am far off base in saying that was a couple of outright lies. Stinking, baldfaced lies. The majority of the money was not even scheduled for expenditure this year. How can that be an emergency? And the bill was infested with pork spending and left wing agenda pieces that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy. Items that may or may not have been valid ideas, depending upon your point of view, but which were
not economic stimulus and were
not emergencies.
And they passed those massive bills in a hurry, with minimal or non-existent opportunity for public review.
Now they are doing everything they are able to do to ram through "health care reform". Or "health insurance reform", or whatever the democrats
(who used to refer to themselves as "socialists" and then started calling themselves
"liberals" until people figured out what that meant so they started referring to themselves as "progressives") want to call it this week. Every week we get a new deadline, a new goal, a promise to get this done by such and such date.
The reason this is an "emergency" is that if they wait until next year, an election year, they know damn well they won't get it done, because what majority they have in the senate and house is mostly comprised of "blue dog" democrats who know better than to vote for something that their constituents don't want, in an election year.
Getting back to your actual question, we don't know what will be in the final bill. And if the democrat leadership has their way about it, we
won't know what's in it until after they have already voted on it.
And that is the point.
George
