Posted on 04/12/2010 8:57:16 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The perfect ending to a day that saw support for repealing O-Care reach a new high in Rasmussen (58 percent) and support for The One reach a new weekly low in Gallup (47 percent). Turns out that fantastically long, mind-bogglingly complex bills which no one has actually read may create unintended consequences. Remember how they forgot to require insurers to cover kids with preexisting conditions? Oh, and they forgot initially to let young adults be covered by their parents’ insurance until Reid fixed it in reconciliation. Now this. Who knew that when Pelosi said they’d have to pass the bill so that people could find out what’s in it, “people” meant Congress?
I’d call it comedy gold if not for the obvious point raised by the Times: “If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”
The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees health program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.
But the research service found that this provision was written in an imprecise, confusing way, so it is not clear when it takes effect.
The new exchanges do not have to be in operation until 2014. But because of a possible “drafting error,” the report says, Congress did not specify an effective date for the section excluding lawmakers from the existing program.
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Too funny !!!
Schadenfreude?
(Snicker)...
Proud to have beaten Hot Air to the punch!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2491798/posts
But it’s still POETIC JUSTICE, isn’t it?
The bill was written by a few Congressional staffers, and a whole bunch of lobbyists.
Even PELOSI has no idea what’s REALLY in it.
Hey, they really are Marxists!
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No, but they really are stupid.
The GOP does not have the nads because the Dems control TV news cause the public sheep pay for cable and sat TV keeping the liberal networks in business. Fox/Saudia is only marginally better. Until the public gets it that TV is used to control them then the GOP will be cowered by the power of the news media.
someone needs to make sure rush, and beck see this.
Hey, they really are Marxists!
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No, but they really are stupid.
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See Post #9 ...
The list, ping
Thanks nachum.
luv it!
What about that clown of a Congressman who recently said he read it three times...yeah he read it three times and voted for it!
Please let this be true!
lolololol
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
This is absolutely great. We need to make this permanent and make it compulsory that they participate in Obama care just like thebtest of us.
Do we really believe this? If it’s true, they’ll find a way to secretly wiggle out.
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