House Healthcare Bill Longer Than 'War and Peace'

October 29, 2009 RSS Feed Print
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By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

You knew it would be long, but 1,990 pages? That's how big the House Democratic leadership healthcare reform bill is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled today. So how does that size up to other major works? Well, some critics have begun sending around lists to giggle at, including this:

And you can bet that those who want to read it in Congress are already flipping pages because Rep. Chris Van Hollen today told reporters that members will get just 72 hours to read the initial bill and then another 72 to read the changed version before it goes to the House floor for a vote.

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It's amazing that many drank the wrong kool-aid - kinda like Joe the Plumber who made less than $50K but acts like he makes more than $250K/yr in proving Obama as a socialist!

* Guess which party has been spending: http://bit.ly/2p5Coj (more info at http://zfacts.com )

* About health care reform, you know who is Lance Armstrong, 7-time Tour de France winner? You wouldn't consider him a dumb, poor, lazy, socialist liberal, would you? Then read this story http://bit.ly/3gor0p

Lance put it, "I was lucky. One of my sponsors, Oakley, stood up for me and threatened to take all their business elsewhere if their insurance carrier refused to cover me. Without their help, I might not be alive today. Or I might be completely broke, still trying to dig my way out of a massive pile of medical bills."

If the GOP really cares about you & me, they wouldn't have fought so hard the past 50 years to deny 50M Americans of the basic health coverage. Eventually, a large chunk of the 50M uninsured (like Lance Armstrong was) will hit the emergency treatments without the help of companies like Oakley. Who do you think will pay for that? And emergency treatments are more costly than preventative ones. And then there are Republicans who whine about how the Senate health care reform bill is not long enough! http://is.gd/5ilEo

About the deficits, which party has been spending ( http://bit.ly/2p5Coj )? And wasn't Bush the one that rushed the $700B TARP stimulus passage? That was basically the "only" thing that Bush did right. Otherwise, we would have seen Great Depression II -- everyone would have rushed to the banks and withdraw their money! If that were to happen, everyone would get hurt.

I voted for Reagan and, hands-down, Obama is smarter and lots more effective. We just need to calm the right/left wingnuts/thugs down. If the ocean pirates are an indication, we will sock it to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Prediction... Mullah Omah and/or Osama bin's head(s) by 7/4/11, or latest 9/11/11! Just watch.

If wingnuts demand fast results, they should go & touch themselves! That way, they feel better. Obama gets things done faster.

http://twitter.com/whybs of CA 7:53PM December 13, 2009

Why does the Heathen rage? Anyone with a half a brain could see that the Stimulus Package only stimulated payoffs, pork, and laid the ground work to grow a Socialist takeover. The Cap and Trade Bill has nothing to do with Global Warming. It has everything to do with taxing Americans into oblivion and destroying Small Businesses, while we give up our sovereignty to the U.N. The Socialized Medicine Bill has nothing to do with Healthcare. It has everything to do with a total Socialist take over of our Republic!

David Brown of GA 1:11AM November 02, 2009

Sure would be convenient for a bus to run her over!

California Conservative of CA 7:50PM October 30, 2009

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