Originally Posted by pj67coll

First off. I happen to think that the US health care system is crap and needs radical change. The idea that the supposededly most advanced country on the planet is unable to provide the worlds leading health care for it's citizenry independently of the vagaries of industry and the necessity of massive incomes or bankruptcy is preposterous.

However, the idea that it's acceptable to stuff a gigantic piece of legislation thru government without anyone knowing what's in it in an ideologically driven pretense of "fixiing" the problem is even more so. I have not read the bill, neither have you. It's not possible to read it in any meaningful way given how huge it is which is why so many of the supposed "leaders" have no clue what all it's ramifications are. It is inexcusable to pretend that government can function effectively like that which is part of the reason Washington is in the mess it's in. That is a piss poor piece of work on the part of the clowns who dreamed up this bill and rammed it thru.

- Peter.