usmbguest5318
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isn't it dishonest to evaluate a bill before it's completed and ready to be signed?
Not if one wants to know what one thinks of the proposed bill in time to contact one's Representative and Senators to tell them what one thinks of the thing. What would you do? Call or email them and not know in detail what you're talking about when get them on the phone?
After the bill is passed, it's too late do do anything about it, except complain. I don't operate that way. I'd rather do what I can before it's too late, so that if I'm left with no alternative but to complain later, I at least I know I did the most and best I could not to find myself in such an emasculated position.
Excuse me but didn't the ACA change several times after it was signed. Didn't it go through numerous changes after the bill left the House and went to the Senate? Are you assuming that once it's voted on nobody is allowed to amend it, it's literally written in stone like the Ten Commandments? Even the constitution allows for amendments.
No. I'm pointing out how the bill is currently written and how it will pass the House assuming they don't, between now and Thursday, change the provisions I've discussed. I'm doing so in order to share with you and others here what I found out from having read the ACHA and the corresponding (amended) sections of the ACA.
It's not much of a political matter as far as I'm concerned.
- The draft bill says what it says. One either likes what it says and the impact on what one will have to pay for health insurance, or one doesn't.
- The draft bill says what it says. It's provisions are such that one either will end up paying more, about the same, or less out of one's pocket in order to purchase health insurance. That's either okay with one or it's not, and one will either let one's representatives know that or one won't.
- One has either taken the time to find out the same things I have by doing one's own reading and analysis or one has not.
Frankly, I hope for a lot of folks' sake that they do change the bill before the parts discussed in my OP take effect. I hope that out of humanitarian purposes, but also because I don't really want to hear people bitching and moaning after the fact, talking 'bout what they didn't know or didn't understand or do to try to get it changed before it their prospects and ability to have health insurance became FUBAR'd. Don't you think it makes more sense to understand what's in the offing and act to correct it before it's made a mess than not know, let it become a mess and then have to fix it?