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Originally Posted by RedHorseRidge I can't say with certainty, but I suspect Congress had access before the public did. And not taking time or energy to read it carefully is not the same thing as "not being permitted" to read it... |
Sorry, but it was not "taking" time or energy to read it carefully, Congress was not "given" time to read it carefully. Those are two different things. Senators and Representatives of course rarely read lengthy legislation themselves - that is one of the things their aides are for, but in the case of the final Obamacare legislation, there was insufficient time. I'm not sure where you were then - maybe oversease or something, but the whole sordid affair prompted a lengthy debate about giving Congress a minimum time to review proposed legislation before bringing it to the floor...you don't remember any of that?
In any case, it is possibly the worst piece of legislation ever written. It was passed 3 years ago this month, and there are STILL questions about what it contains and all the rammifications, and already it is waaay over budget with more to come. That is what happens when you try to hurriedly jam something through before the mid term elections...the Dems knew very well they would lose the House and therefore lose the opportunity to pass Obamacare. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with that - politics are politics, but this Obamacare was far too complex and far reaching to jam through haphazardly, and we are already suffering the consequences. If you have followed the news, the money for covering people with pre-existing conditions has run dry, and that was one of the primary objectives - which both Dems and Republicans agreed on, by the way...
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