At nine inches tall and more than 19 pounds, it’s sort of like the world’s biggest cancerous tumor — a government cancer. And the tumor grows. And once it takes hold, it can’t be cured. Not even in America, where many people including Canadians now turn for their cancer care.
Politico.com warns that just in case you do choose to read the stupid “health care” (it’s got little to do with “health care”) bill from Nancy Pelosi and her army of left-wing bureaucrats (and I won’t), be ready for paragraphs like this one, which is absolutely ubiquitous in modern day big-government socialist nanny-state crapspeak rules and regulations and laws and policies and in their planned, Soviet-style, central government dictates. (Politico left out my fancy adjectives.)
“(a) Outpatient Hospitals – (1) In General – Section 1833(t)(3)(C)(iv) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395(t)(3)(C)(iv)) is amended – (A) in the first sentence – (i) by inserting “(which is subject to the productivity adjustment described in subclause (II) of such section)” after “1886(b)(3)(B)(iii); and (ii) by inserting “(but not below 0)” after “reduced”; and (B) in the second sentence, by inserting “and which is subject, beginning with 2010 to the productivity adjustment described in section 1886(b)(3)(B)(iii)(II)”.
—Nancy Pelosi, relating to Americans, in her own way. The liberal government way.
Politico.com clocks it in as about $2.2 million per word; or roughly the same as what I figure it costs Canadians for the state-owned CBC. Luckily for Americans, as we can see from the paragraph above, the “health care” bill is far more interesting than anything at the CBC, and thus it’s a better bang for the taxpayer buck.
As an aside, I took a gander at the American Constitution last night, and it clocks in at about 50 pages if you include all the amendments and depending on the font, the Declaration of Independence. So you see, that’s why liberals call themselves “progressives”.
And let me add this: never before in history has the word “bill” in “health care bill” been more salient. The government’s bill to taxpayers will be trillions of dollars. And the government growth in size and intrusion immense. Which is precisely the sort of thing the Constitution was written to prevent.
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