Wonder what you would find if you frisked Baucus’s newly written Obama-Care bill?
Answer: Who knows!? The damn thing is 1,502 pages long!
And we all thought the original H.R. 3200 Obama-Care bill was huge. Now we got ourselves another Mount Everest, in the form of paper, on our hands:
The Senate Finance Committee filed its sweeping health care reform bill Monday and its release served largely to highlight the divisions among Democrats over the direction of reform.
The massive, 1,500 page bill is expected to serve as the backbone for Democratic reform efforts going forward and five senators expressed concerns about one of its main provisions, a 40 percent tax on high-end insurance plans.
It’s important to remember that the bill won’t exist in this form for long. Senate Majority Leader Reid and Sens. Max Baucus and Chris Dodd along with senior White House aides are merging the Finance and Health Committee legislation into one bill that will be considered on the floor of the Senate. The behind-closed-doors dealings have drawn criticism from Republicans, particularly because President Obama had promised a transparent process and pledged to negotiate the health care bill on C-SPAN.
Ahh yes! The lovely transparency promises made by Obama during the campaign. Being able to watch the health-care negotiations on C-SPAN would be kind of helpful right now. Whatever happened to that and all of the other promises? I haven’t seen one single transparency promise kept yet. Mr. President, I’m throwing on the Jeopardy theme song and waiting…
[Do, doot, do, doot, do, doot, doooo. Do, doot, do, doot, DOOT, do, do, do]
It will be interesting to see what’s uncovered in this heap of paper that politicians call a ‘bill’.
Side-Note: If environmentalists want to complain about something, maybe they should attack the liberals drafting these health-care bills that probably take a whole tree to print. Just a suggestion. After all, to carry this bill around you would have to take a lift dolly to work each day.
1,502 PAGES! WTH! 😡
*UPDATE:
Speaking of transparency and un-kept promises by Obama… The Republican National Committee just released this political advertisement about it:
Perfect. Once again, we’re waiting Obama… Don’t make me sing the Jeopardy theme song again!
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