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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	ObamaCare-Congress having buyers remorse?
	Date:	4/13/2010 11:37:08 AM

This from a blog on National Review. Were it true that ObamaCare means the end of the federal employees health plan...oh sweet justice that would be for Congress!!! And GF asked me to explain why it was bad for my business.

Buyer’s Remorse [Yuval Levin]

A few weeks after passing “historic” health-care legislation, Democrats in Congress may finally be discovering what other Americans already know in their bones: this law is a horrendous mess. Some members apparently asked the Congressional Research Service (an arm of the Library of Congress that does research for members and staff) to explain to them just what will happen to their own insurance and that of their staffs as a result of the law. As the New York Times reports today, “In its painstaking analysis of the new law, the research service says the impact on Congress itself and the intent of Congress are difficult to ascertain,” but it sure does seem as though members and staff (like so many other Americans) will not be able to keep the insurance they like—despite vehement promises to the contrary by President Obama and Democratic members of Congress themselves. Pointing to a broad array of complex and contradictory provisions and a variety of “drafting errors,” the CRS concludes: “It is unclear whether members of Congress and Congressional staff who are currently participating in F.E.H.B.P. [the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program] may be able to retain this coverage.”

If you had your own research service to help you figure out what the law will do to your insurance, the answer would likely be just as confusing and discouraging. And what it will do to American health care and American public finances is even more appalling. As more and more voters appear to be concluding these days, the new law was one big drafting error.

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ObamaCare-Congress having buyers remorse? - MartiniMan - 4/13/2010 11:37:08 AM

ObamaCare-Congress having buyers remorse? - rude evin - 4/13/2010 2:59:36 PM

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