 merrie says: Betsy McCaughey reads massive healthcare bills so you don’t have to. New York’s former lieutenant governor, now chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, fired the torpedo that ultimately sank HillaryCare. While the sheer girth of that 1,431-page legislative juggernaut intimidated nearly everyone, McCaughey devoured it. Her resulting January 1994 New Republic article, “No Exit,” unmasked HillaryCare’s previously overlooked warts and sores. The horror that McCaughey revealed eventually spelled that initiative’s doom. McCaughey has done it again. In a June 19 Wall Street Journal op-ed, she dissected the 615-page draft of Ted Kennedy’s Affordable Health Choices Act. The Massachusetts Democrat’s bill is, essentially, the Senate’s version of ObamaCare. McCaughey’s “light reading” is scarier than Stephen King. While touting health-care reform as a vital measure to which every American has a God-given right, Kennedy’s elaborate new medical scheme includes a trap door . . . . through which members of Congress may slither away after dark. On page 114, it defines “qualified individuals” who must obey this law. Among them are those ineligible for the generous and choice-rich Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. This excludes current and retired members of Congress. How convenient! Before America steps an inch closer to nationalized medicine, lawmakers and citizens alike should follow Betsy McCaughey’s lead and read this bill. Meanwhile, about the best one can say for Ted Kennedy’s $1 trillion incarnation of ObamaCare is that House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s $3.47 trillion version is even worse. — Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News ... |
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