Truly a turkey: 'Reform' bill stuffed with costs

NY Post ^ | November 20, 2009 | MICHAEL TANNER

[Scanian]

Just in time for Thanksgiv ing, Sen. Harry Reid has given us a giant turkey of a health-care bill. At 2,074 pages and more than 370,000 words, it's officially "scored" as costing $849 billion over 10 years -- $400 million per page, or $2.3 million per word.

But that doesn't come close to measuring its true cost. The bill uses various accounting gimmicks to hide its true cost. For example the bill doesn't include more than $200 billion needed to prevent a 21 percent cut in Medicare next year. [The CBO "score" actually assumes Reid cuts Medicare 23 percent -- Ed.] That cost has been spun off into a separate bill, even though the Senate voted down that approach last month.

[Quiller]

Senator Kerry spoke against legislation that would require a bill to be posted on the internet for a period before it could be voted on. One of his comments was that the language of most bills was too "arcane and legalistic" for most of the public to understand.

If arcane and legalistic is PC buzz for theft and extortion, then I guess he was right. But the greater danger from understanding is that the public will realize how $crewed they are, and have been, by our elected "representatives".

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Cross my heart, we're not hiding anything from the public.