TGIF: Let's Ignore Congress
Filed Under: Anything Peaceful
Tags: congress • Consent of the Governed • Herbert Spencer
I spent a good part of Wednesday night closely skimming — my conscience won’t let me type “reading” — the Republicans’ alternative healthcare “reform” bill. It’s 219 pages of legalese. I know it’s one-tenth the size of Speaker Pelosi’s bill, but that doesn’t make for easier navigation. Figuring out how it all would work is no easy task, and I don’t claim to have done it. At least the bill appears to legalize the purchase of insurance across state lines and does not contain an individual or employer mandate.It does promise to lower the cost of medical insurance. Maybe it would, but with Medicare driving up prices and shifting costs to non-Medicare patients, I doubt it. Others have pointed out that belief in government is like belief in magic. No need to wonder how it will achieve some glorious purpose. The mere expression of its will is enough to make it happen. I think of Yul Brynner as Ramses II in The Ten Commandments: “So it is written, so it shall be done.”
The rest of TGIF is here.
