States of Personal Privilege (Healthcare Bill more fair to some)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/10/09 | Kimberley Strassel

[cowtowney]

How good is Sen. Max Baucus's health reform bill? So good that Democrats have made sure some of the most costly provisions don't apply to their own states.

The Senate Finance Committee is gearing up for a final vote next week, and Chairman Baucus now appears to have the Democratic votes to pass his bill. Getting this far has of course meant cutting deals, and those deals, it turns out, are illuminating. The senators are all for imposing "reform" on the nation, so long as it doesn't disadvantage their constituents.

[cowtowney]

The Dems will never cease to disgust you.

[cowtowney]

Poor Mr. Strickland. If only he lived in . . . Nevada! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is worried about losing his seat next year, worked out a deal by which the federal government will pay all of his home state’s additional Medicaid expenses for the next five years. Under the majority leader’s very special formula, only three other states—Oregon, Rhode Island and Michigan—qualify for this perk, on the grounds, as Mr. Reid put it recently on the Senate floor, that they “are suffering more than most.”

[freeangel]

And I have no doubt it will pass, too.

[SkyPilot]

Let's call it what it is.

It is an Affirmative Action health care bill. It is a give away to those who won't pay for health care, while health care will be robbed from those who do pay for it.

[dr_who]

Yes, what voters think doesn’t matter any more. It’s appalling to think that in an age of 24 hour “news up to the minute” that a few politicians have pretty much perfected a way to ram huge bills through congress without any real debate whatsoever. We might as well be in the soviet union at this point.

[RU88]

First thing I thought of after reading this article was the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. As the pig leader Napoleon stated: “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS”

[maine yankee]

FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD !

[Prince of Space]

So Congress hasn't heard of the 14th amendment?

Mrs. Prince of Space