If Republicans don't like the size and weight of the reform bill in Congress, then so away with the insurance companies and remove all legislation having to deal with their involvement. That would make the bill a 20 page document.
After watching the video news clip below, the health care ad pictured at the right, came up as a sponsor. Gee, I wonder what side Fox-TV took on the size of the House bill Ryan opposed.
It amazes me that intelligent grownups are complaining about doing their job, like writing and reading legislation, and serving the people they are supposed to represent. If they don't have the time or "smarts" to do this difficult task, then maybe we need to replace these ideologues.
Media Matters writes: Following the release of the House Democrats' health care reform bill, the leaders of the House Republican caucus repeatedly stressed the length and size of the bill during an October 29 press conference. Numerous media figures and outlets have followed in lockstep, with the Politico's Jonathan Allen asserting that the bill "comes out to about $2.24 million per word," and Sean Hannity claiming that "if you can't put this down in 30 pages or less, it proves that this is a complicated, you know, bunch of bureaucratic garbage."
WITI-TV Fox 6 reports the spin as "fact," and let's you decide: WITI-TV, FRANKLIN - Congressman Paul Ryan used a green grocery tote to carry the Democrat's entire health care reform bill into the Franklin Public LIbrary Friday. He told a crowd gathered there, now is the time to organize support against the nearly 2,000 page bill -- before next Saturday's up or down vote in Congress.
Agreed, I cannot stand seeing and hearing health care reform disparaged based on the length of the bill. I just read a press release from Ryan and Sensenbrenner taking a cheap shot at the bill by claiming they wanted to bring a copy to a town hall meeting but couldn't get it on the plane as a carry-on. I doubt it would be difficult to find a bill of similar length Bush signed that they supported. And Hannity with his 30 pages dig? Ridiculous. By that standard there are at least 100 pages of bureaucratic garbage in the original Patriot Act.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing to me that this one detail has never been discussed.
ReplyDeleteWe hear all the time that the simplest most cost effective way to deliver and pay for health care is with single payer, yet no one seems to feel any outrage over the massive amounts of safe guards that have to be written into reform to prevent the private sector from retaliation and abuse.
Thus the huge bill Republicans have complained about. The size is their own doing.