“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
-Nancy Pelosi
And so it seems! In the afterglow of the Health Mandate Bill’s passage, a curious dynamic seems to be occurring. Whereas information about the bill was scarce before its passage, suddenly there is a cascade of information in the media, in the form of many articles directly indicating who the bill will most harm: the healthy and the working class.
As with literary research, the truth of any document lies not in the body, but in the footnotes, where the contradictions and suppressed bits are harried from public view. While this still seems to be the case, the footnotes have suddenly hit mainstream.
As the Times analysis argues, Health Care Reform Mandates will positively effect wealth equality in the U.S. because… uh, because…
“In effect, healthy families will be picking up most of the bill — and their insurance will be somewhat more expensive than it otherwise would have been.”
Huh. I worked with a guy who always said “you gotta push a turd out to git one in,” a saying that fits this legislation to a tee. So, basically what the Times argues is that equality is improved by simply spreading the burden of an unhealthy population. But if equality is the standard, then why does this bill punish the healthy to reward the unhealthy?
