"Umm - Say Doc ... didn't you forget a provision in this bill?"
"What provision ??? I WROTE the rootin' tootin' thing - BUT did you REALLY expect me to READ it ???"
Posted on 03/24/2010 1:05:55 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON — Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.
Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.
Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.
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This is what happens when write bills in dark rooms, and vote on them before reading.
FUBAR
Where does this bill provide federal funding for killing unborn children? Stupak’s problem with the bill was not that it directly funds abortion, but that the provisions in it that prohibit funding of abortion are not strong enough. This is true (of course), but I don’t think it is fair to say that the “Federal funding for killing unborn children made it in no problem.”
No, this was not an accident. One of the duties of the death panels (which do exist in the law) is to decide whether people are too handicapped to continue to receive care.
Obviously, insurers are not going to be asked to insure handicapped children, since most of them will be put to death fairly speedily in any case.
Incidently, even vets qualify to be on the death panels. After all, they can put down your cat or dog; why not your child?
What are the other duties of these death panels? Where are they defined in the statute?
Haste makes Waste.
Perhaps they should have read the bill?
This will not be the last mistake found...
It's like this country is being run by 4th graders with no adult supervision.
Boehner was right: They did not read the bill..............
lulz, an EO does not trump law.
ooopsie...
Time to ride this one for all it’s worth.
Get the bill repealed because of it.
If someone had read the blankity-blank thing, someone just might have picked up on it BEFORE it was voted on.
"Umm - Say Doc ... didn't you forget a provision in this bill?"
"What provision ??? I WROTE the rootin' tootin' thing - BUT did you REALLY expect me to READ it ???"
EPIC FAILURE!!!!
After 14 months and 2700 pages, they couldn’t get the most basic promise right........or maybe they got it exactly as THEY want it but it sure isn’t as promised. More importantly, they thought it was there but it wasn’t, so they have no clue as to what’s in the bill.
The pubs have GOT to make hay of this. They should be hollering about this from every rooftop until they either force another vote or force the rats to vote against the change since they don’t want to have to try to pass another bill or make sure the public is completely aware of their epic failure and refusal to correct. This is a big chance to open some big doors in ridding ourselves either of the legislation or the more onerous failures of the bill.
Should Coburn’s viagra amendment be tied to any fix of this?
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