so she can find out what was in the order after it's signed; why not, since she thinks it's just great to pass a law 'so we can find out what's in it'?
Nancy Pelosi told us that we needed to pass the ObamaCare bill to find out what was in it, but apparently we needed to pass it to find out what wasn’t in it as well. Thanks to one of the 2800 pages that apparently no one in Congress read before voting on the bill, the new law has drug manufacturers canceling discounts to childrens’ hospitals that helped provide medicine to children suffering from rare diseases. The change will cost these hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars, and will almost certainly curtail access to critical care for children:
...It didn’t end up in the bill as a “mistake in drafting”; the tradeoff is rather transparent. Congress wanted to expand a mandate on drug manufacturers to sell their most expensive products at steep discounts to rural hospitals as well as the community centers and clinics, and the drug manufacturers balked at eroding even more of their revenue, much of which goes to development of new medications and therapies. Congress therefore cut out the children’s hospitals to strike a balance.
There’s no mistake in the drafting here, nor is this an unintended consequence, as the New York Times calls it. There was a mistake in the priorities of Congress, and a big mistake in voting for a 2800-page bill without actually reading it. But otherwise, this is precisely the kind of rationing that Congress intended to impose on the American health-care system. And it’s the children who get to pay for it first.
Also on the subject of Obamacare, we have this crap:
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From what I've heard, our best hope for getting rid of this disaster is another omission; in that they forgot a clause to keep one portion of the law from ruled unconstitutional and thus the whole thing is also unconstitutional. Usually they include such a clause that states that if one portion of a law is ruled against, the rest of it will still stand unless those portions are individually ruled against.
Read something about that not long ago. ANY tool that helps get rid of the mess is good
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