Added to cato.org on July 27, 2009
This article appeared in the New York Post on July 27, 2009.
ON Tuesday, July 14, House Democrats unveiled a health-care-reform bill that was 1,018 pages long. The next day, after all of eight hours of debate, the House Ways and Means Committee passed it. Does anyone believe they actually read the bill?
But apparently, that doesn't matter because, as Ways & Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-Harlem) said: "There's an urgent need to get something done because real lives are at stake."
Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insisting that the full House vote on the bill before they go home for August recess, less than a week from now. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says he may even pull the bill from his own committee and send it directly to the floor. "This can't be an interminable discussion," he says.
President Obama, who admits that he hasn't read the bill either, is also pushing for Congress to act quickly. "Health-care reform can't wait," the president said in a half dozen different variations during his most recent news conference.
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