Yes, you read that right: the Democrats are going to use the budgetary process of reconciliation to pass a non-existent bill revamping the entire health care industry over the strenuous objection of the American people.With the President and Congress’s plan to pass comprehensive health care reform reaching increasingly high levels of unpopularity, and reconciliation becoming an impediment, the leadership of the Senate is rumored to be preparing a new secret plan to railroad the bill through the Senate in record time by using a seldom used parliamentary procedure.
Their plan is to proceed to a House passed non-health care bill to provide a shell of legislation to give Obamacare a ride to the House then to the President’s desk. Sound confusing? We lay out the steps below, but essentially the Senate would pass health care reform as an amendment to a completely unrelated bill so the Senate and House could act quickly and without further debate. Even worse? Nobody really knows what that legislation looks like but they plan on voting for it anyway.
Right now, the Senate Finance Committee is in the midst of marking up health care reform “legislation.” Due to Senate procedure, what they are actually marking up is a 200+ page conceptual framework of the actual legislation, not a real bill. That means that not only has no Senator even read the bill but, there is a high probability that the bill hasn’t even been written yet. If the Committee sticks to their artificial deadline of completing work by this Friday then they would have passed a conceptual document reforming the nation’s health care system, spending trillions, without ever seeing an estimated 1,500 pages of legislation, which may or may not be written.
If 'read the bill' was a common mantra a few weeks ago, 'make a bill' should be coming into common use anytime now.
In an attempt to inject a tiny shred of sanity, Republican Sen. Jim Bunning proposed an amendment that no vote could be taken until the actual text of the bill had been written and posted alongside the CBO cost for public viewing for 72 hours. Sounds reasonable, right? The Democrats didn't think so, and killed the amendment. Wanna know their reasoning? You, the American public, are too stupid to understand the wording even if it was available.
Uh, Senators? Do you remember the entire month of August, when the American people schooled the entirety of Congress?
This is a gigantic warning sign of just how desperate the Democrat leadership is to pass government-controlled health care. They are willing to do quite literally anything and everything they have to in order to get it done.
Be afraid...be very afraid.
Now might be a good time to call your Senators and give them the biggest, baddest ear-chewing you can muster.
There's my two cents.
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