Reading the Health Care Bill: Part I

Aaron Opine Blog ^ | 7/28/09 | Aaron

[aaronopine]

Unlike President Obama, and most members of Congress, I am actually reading House Resolution 3200. I am commenting on relevant sections (see below) and pulling out the text the American public should be most concerned with. There are some provisions that provide “consumer protections” some of which may be beneficial, but all of which either already exist or will necessarily increase insurance premiums (or bankrupt insurers in the case of controlled premiums).

Just the Table of Contents is telling and contradictory. A recurring theme throughout the bill is a massive expansion of the Federal government which will be necessary just to administer the plan. President Obama once remarked that the Constitution of the United States of America was deficient because it was a document of negative rights (from the perspective of the government) which says what the government cannot do, not what it “Can or should do.” House Resolution 3200 attempts to “correct” that problem by listing what the government can do in sufficiently vague language as to minimize all those pesky “Can’t dos.”

[HighlyOpinionated]

Send this to your CongressCritters who aren’t reading the Bill.