Saturday, November 7, 2009

What exactly is Speaker Pelosi trying to hide?

President Obama stopped by the House of Representatives today in an effort to rally support for HR 3962, the "Affordable Health Care for America Act."  Speaker Pelosi will not be allowing the final language of the bill to be posted online 72-hours before a vote comes to the floor of the House even though she pledged to do so only a little over a month ago.  

Why the change of heart?  Could it be because she doesn't want the American public to know that you can be fined up to $250,000 and/or imprisoned for up to five years for willful failure to purchase an approved policy?  Incidentally, according to the CBO such a policy would cost a family of four at least $15,000/year.  

Maybe she doesn't want the American public to know that the reason that AARP is suddenly behind her plan is because they stand to make a significant amount of money given a sizeable source of their revenue is from the sale of, among other things, supplemental insurance policies for medicare recipients.  Of course seniors will be needing plenty of supplemental insurance policies given that Pelosi's health care bill aims to pay for itself via more than $400 Billion in cuts to medicare.  

Perhaps she doesn't want Americans to know that the medically uninsurable will have to wait a full six-months before they are eligible for government-subsidized insurance plans.  Given that most of these people are uninsurable due to terminal illness, I'm sure that they'll be happy to know that they will most likely not survive the six-month waiting period.   

By not posting the final language of the bill online for 72-hours prior to a final vote, Speaker Pelosi is virtually ensuring that the members of congress will not have the opportunity to read the bill prior to voting on it.  Of course this is probably of little consequence to the millionaires club given that they already have top-of-the-line health insurance of which the government pays up to 75% the cost.  

Oh and by the way some members of Congress are still wrangling to get illegal aliens access to the health care plans as outlined in the bill.  

The current session of Congress has made a habit of ramming through bad legislation that is not in the best interests of the American public.  Contact your Congressman today and let them know that you aren't going to stand for it anymore.  After all, there's an election in 2010 and their job depends on it.

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