Front page lead:
"Health law snag may cost hospitals; Push to correct child-drug pricing delayed in Senate" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff / November 25, 2010
WASHINGTON — Partisan tensions on Capitol Hill are delaying efforts to fix an error in the federal health care law that could cost Children’s Hospital Boston and others like it millions of dollars in added drug costs.
Correcting the error would require changing just 47 words in the 1,880-page law, a task that a previous Congress might have accomplished in an afternoon. Instead, with Republicans fighting to repeal the health care bill rather than fix it and Democrats loath to acknowledge its flaws, months have passed with no resolution, and prospects for one in the lame-duck session are limited....
Here is what they are working on:
Endgame Legislation: Lame Duck Session Ushers in Tyranny
And not a word in my paper. It's full of tax cuts and other garbage.
The error was a simple and unintentional omission in the final, frenetic days of drafting the landmark legislation and reconciling House and Senate versions....
Yup, this HISTORIC and SOCIETY-ALTERING LEGISLATION was SLOPPILY PUT TOGETHER!
That language was accidentally altered.
So NO ONE REALLY BOTHERED to READ the THING, did they?
Not until AFTER the STINKING PoS was SERVED UP to the American people!
“It was a drafting error,’’ said a congressional aide familiar with the writing of the bill but not authorized to speak publicly....
Yeah, and now they tell you how they are going to "fix" it.
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more--"Maybe you would be better off without their "help," America.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go say grace to the porcelain god -- a common occurrence after partaking of a morning feast from the old BG.
