A major official has admitted that this most important public policy proposal was written intentionally so that it could not be understood by voters. From the story:
Hostility…will be intensified by a startling intervention by Karel de Gucht,…who suggested that the [bill] was designed so that people could not understand it in a bid to avoid “real debate”. He said: “…”People didn’t read the [bill], they didn’t understand the first word about it. No real debate about [it] could happen. This was a deliberate decision of the … Council.”
Oh, wait a minute. My mistake. He’s talking about the Lisbon Treaty for the EU, not Obamacare! Oh well, same arrogance, different continent.
September 5th, 2009 | 10:38 pm
With every passing day I’m given more proof that Garet Garrett was correct.
September 6th, 2009 | 12:59 am
You raise a good question, Wesley. Who actually did write the House bill, H.R. 3200? Yes, the names of certain congressman appear on the bill as authors/sponsors. But we may be sure that they did not write it. Think about it. Here we have over 1000 pages of densely written legislation. Who was it that started with a blank page and did the actual writing? What instructions were give to those writers, and by whom? There is a news story here waiting to be uncovered by an industrious journalist.
September 6th, 2009 | 9:43 am
Ezekiel J. Emanuel notes, “One of the key health policy challenges for the next decade will be to resolve the ethical dilemmas posed by shifting to a population-based health system. Most of the attention surrounding this challenge has been focused on physician resistance to population-based health care, but the real ethical dilemma, and probably the more serious problem, arises from the public’s resistance.” Patient v. Population. . ., Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy, Marion Danis, et. al., (New York: Oxford, 2002), 243.
My guess is that this bill has been years in the making.
Robert at bioethike.com
September 7th, 2009 | 1:23 pm
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September 10th, 2009 | 10:00 am
Wesley: What’s your point? Most readers here have never examined any H.R. or Senate Bill in detail, so it’s not surprising that the language would be “unintelligible.” Go read some chapters of U.S.C. and you’d probably wonder how anybody can make enough sense of it to govern the country. Or is it simply that YOU are having difficulty understanding H.R.3200? Have you actually read the text?
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