Does anyone "really" know what is in the "proposed bill"...........?

 

The H.R. bill, which is extremely unpopular, is almost certainly going to be gutted by the Senate and then............and only then.........will anyone be able to answer this question and that might not be until after the 1st of the year......................

Two of the largest volumes I have here, the American College Dictionary and Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, don't even approach 1,990 pages. How many of the disfunctional people serving themselves and their special interest groups in Congress will have read that reform bill?

 

Only if the Senate guts it to about the size of a comic book will anyone really read and understand what it involves. Even then you won't really know until it has been passed and they send the small businessman the other 'bill', the one you have to pay or else.

 

It depends on too many factors, to be able to form an opinion.  Will it make insurance companies more competitive, or simply give them more customers to gouge?  Will employers be able to "opt out" of offering health insurance benefits altogether, or pay more taxes to do so, or a combination of the two?  How will the changes, if any, be implemented--right away, or gradually, over time?  Will consumers and doctors make decisions about the best course of testing/treatment, or will insurance companies continue to dictate this?  Or, the government?  Or, the employer? 

 

It seems the more it's discussed, the less I know what the facts are...

 

One thing seems almost certain to me, though...it won't make everyone happy, and it probably won't ever be completely fair. 

When I was a kid, I used to work in Manhattan as a messenger for Elizabeth Arden and I used to see the guys on the street corners who would set up card tables and play 3-Card Monty or Shell Games..........

 

Watching Congress debate this so-called Healthcare Reform (I think that's what we are calling it this week???) takes me back to those days in Manhattan except..............there are no cops (none that I can see anyway) in the area to break up the game before someone is.............fleeced :(