1. The healthcare bill was the most widely disseminated, widely studied bills that's ever passed.
Rewriting history already? I as well as many people in this country remember all of the different stories about the bill when it was being written, and "disseminated" to the people...
There are plenty of very large bills that pass every year that garner much less attention.
And that is a problem with progressive legislation...Each proposed action to change the lives of Americans through legislating law, should be held out there on its own merit, IMO. Not hidden in these massive piles of legal language that the congresspeople don't even read.
To act as though it was rushed through after over a year of debate is silly at best.
It's not silly, it is what happened. Remember this....
Or this:
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform? Here’s a case study. On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.” I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill. In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.) Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
The $100 Million Health Care Vote? - ABC News
The President said while running for the office, that he wanted 72 hours for any bill to be online so that congress, and the people could read it fully and understand it before any vote happened...That didn't happen with Obamacare. it was passed on Christmas eve, near midnight along a pure party line vote, IOW rammed through.
2. Yes, no republicans voted for it. That doesn't mean that they have to be ignorant and not make it better in the future. Look at all the GOP governors tat understand how that medicaid expansion would help out their states.
Oh please. Liberal progressives passed this turd, now you try the old, why can't we polish it? You seem to be under the delusion that once passed it is set in stone....Hint, things change.
3. Emergency surgeries weren't denied but his credit will be ruined. And that doesn't seem like a big deal til he goes out to try to buy a house or a car. The simple truth is he'd be better off if this were 2014 and he had insurance or was on medicaid.
Again, not true...If he were to go bankrupt, which is unfortunately where many in his position end up, with the right decisions he could buy a house within 2 years, and in today's climate, a car in probably the same amount of time...And although his personal position would have been better off if everyone else paid for what he needed and absolved any responsibility of his, for his own incurred costs, but at the same time he would have been better off had he owned a catastrophic policy that would have covered this sort of thing...But then again, how would that have made others pay for him....