Demagogue or Ignoramus?
The first amendment to the Reid health-insurance nationalization bill that was introduced, and passed, came from Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. From her news release:
U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today put women first in the health care reform debate by introducing as the first amendment to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act a measure to guarantee women access to preventive health care screenings and care at no cost….Senator Mikulski’s amendment would require all health plans to cover comprehensive women’s preventive care and screenings with no copayments. [Emphasis added.]
I’m pretty sure mammograms and other preventive health care screenings have costs–maybe Mikulski would disagree–but her amendment fails to specify who would pay them.Is it asking too much to require members of Congress to declare who will be burdened by their grand ideas and in what manner? Should we let them pretend–and let them encourage others to believe–that such things are free?Demagogue or ignoramus? You decide.
