Well, the House of Representatives is supposed to undertake the repeal of the socialized medicine bill this week. Good. Not soon enough as far as I'm concerned. What Republicans seem to want is a total repeal of the entire bill, and then go back and pass individual pieces of legislation to help cure the ills of the US health care system. Fair enough. Sounds like a plan.
But polls show that some people like some provisions of the bill, like filling the so-called doughnut hole in prescription drugs for seniors, keeping your kids -- or rather, grown adult offspring -- on your family health insurance until they're just about ready for Medicare... stuff like that.
So naturally the dems and others who want socialized medicine seize on these relatively small features of the larger bill and try to use them as a wedge to salvage the whole big pile of legislative manure.
They say, "We should keep pieces of the bill."
The only trouble with that is that the socialized medicine bill that passed was just shy of about 3,000 pages long. So are you going to keep Paragraph 6 under Title 17, Section 4, pages 1721-23?
I mean -- no one ever knew what-all this stupid piece of legislation contained. No one who passed the bill actually read it. So what are they going to salvage? They don't even know what's in it. Yet. I'm sure they were shocked to find out about the doughnut hole thing and the provision to keep your adult children dependent forever.
Additonally, who's going to comb through this pile of drek to pick out the "good parts"? Any volunteers? If you decide to spare the aforementioned Paragraph 6 under Title 17, Section 4, pages 1721-23, do you know whether or not it's built on a foundation provided in Pargraph 14 under Title 6, Section 2, page 1341, which will be repealed along with all the rest?
No. Just pull the whole damn thing and start over.
In fact, I didn't see any evidence of any actual legislators writing the socialized medicine bill in the first place. Didn't it just arrive on Pazzo Pelosi's doorstep, UPS overnight from the Tides Foundation, like the Stimulus Bill? No wonder no one knows what's in it, except a pack of rabid socialists.
Just dump the whole thing and start over. AND READ THE DAMN BILLS BEFORE YOU VOTE ON THEM THIS TIME. No earmarks. No exemptions. All members of congress, all union members, all government employees will be subject to all the same crap congress lays on the rest of us, too.
Save the Republic.
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