Ooooh, that awful House healthcare bill examined, page by page
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 11:05 Oh, jeeze … another one of ‘those’ emails that went out with a handy click of the Forward button, and without a bit of due diligence. Admittedly, this one is complex since it goes page for page with somebody’s ( author unknown ) interpretation of the suspect passages contained in the House bill.
Of course it’ all scary as hell, especially for anybody who’s never dealt with the standard annual re-up process on any really large ( as in America’s largest airline - which I get my health insurance from ) American corporation not currently in bankruptcy, having been crushed by providing healthcare costs to employees, their spouses and families.
As in GM. Get my drift?
Fortunately, I deal with this kind of legalese each and every year, about November, when I’ve got to read through pages upon pages of ‘if this, then that, unless the other thing’ legalese. I end up doing nothing, since I’m ‘happy’ with my current plan ( uh, yes there are reservations there).
For ease of discussion and reading, I’ll copy/paste the text of the email at the end of this post. Believe me, you don’t want to wade through it here.
There numerous ‘tip offs’ that it’s the bogus, paranoid ramblings of somebody who either works within the insurance industry or its lobbying firms, somebody who has great health coverage unlike so many millions of others and isn’t likely to lose it or some neo-con/libertarian wingnut that’s hunkered down waiting for the UN troops to swoop in with the black helicopters.
That they keep using language like “yet another payoff for ACORN” tells me it’s the latter.
I began to go through the first dozen or so pages, comparing them side by side with the actual text of the proposed legislation - admittedly, not something everybody has the time or motivation to do. I got my draft of the actual text at http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf.
Let’s start at the top of the mis-characterizations contained within the email:
