Health Scare Bill Update
What do the Koran, the Jewish Bible, War & Peace and the King James Bible have in common?
Answer:
None of these books have as many pages as the Health Care Bill that’s being pushed in a mad rush for passage by Congress. The bill currently has just over 2000 pages at last count. None of the books listed have a Trillion Dollar price tag associated with them either.
Looking at the Koran, or Qur’an as it’s often referred to, comes in at just under 600 pages in most English translations. You can probably get one for free at a local Mosque or for $9.20 from Amazon.com. I also heard that the Fort Hood shooter was donating his now that he plans to plead insanity.
According to Wikipedia, War and Peace has just over 1400 pages in most printed forms. As for cost, you can probably check one out for free at a local library or you can purchase one from Amazon.com for $9.20. A final note about War & Peace, much like the health care bill, no one has ever actually read War & Peace in its entirety.
The Complete Jewish Bible (shown above) in hardcover has 1631 pages. You can probably get one for free at a local Synagogue or purchase one from Amazon.com for $31.49. If only the Health Care Bill had the same disdain for pork that the Jews hold but, I digress…
Last but certainly not least, the King James version of the Holy Bible typically has just over 1900 pages. As for the cost, you can probably get one for free at a local Church or online from Amazon.com for $9.34. Being a King James man myself, I have to say that this one by far is the best deal 
.
If it were mandated that everyone of us had to go out and get any one of the books listed above, the prices would vary usually from free to just under $32.00. Thanks to Congress, we’re about to be mandated to pay for a pork laden bill that without a doubt no man woman or child has ever fully read.
According to the US Census taken in July 2008, there were 304,059,724 people in the United Stated. The trillion dollar price tag for this bill works out to be roughly $3,300.00 per person.
I want to encourage anyone reading this, no matter their party affiliation, to contact their congressman and have them put the brakes on this insanity.
I leave you with recent remarks made from the floor of the Senate by Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee:
“I have an important announcement to make on a subject which I believe will be of interest to the American people: the era of the 1,000-page bill is over. We have a 2,000-page bill, a new health care bill introduced in the House of Representatives today by Speaker Pelosi.“
“While we just know a few things about the bill, we know that the price tag is likely to be more than $1 trillion. Two thousand pages and more than $1 trillion.”
“Our concern has been with bills we’ve seen so far is a bill that’s supposed to reduce costs actually raises the cost of premiums, cuts Medicare, and raises taxes. The new government insurance plan will cause millions to lose their employer-based insurance and become part of the government-run option.“
“In the middle of his remarks, Sen. Alexander yielded to a question from the Assistant Democratic Leader, Senator Richard “Dick” Durbin (D-Il.), who asked if Sen. Alexander thinks “there should be a maximum number of pages that the bill would entail?”
Sen. Alexander responded, “I think a lot of Americans don’t like the idea of a 1,000-page bill. I think they’ll like even less a 2,000-page bill. I think what the American people want us to do is not have a comprehensive bill full of surprises but reduce the cost of health care premiums and reduce the cost of government and go step by step to meet that goal.“
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If you think it’s insane to allow the gang in DC to serve the American taxpayer another helping of spoiled pork, please forward this article and encourage them to contact their congressman.
Thanks in advance,
LEX
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I’m sure Lamar Alexander learned everything he would ever need to know about economics while obtaining his B.S. from Vanderbilt. I’m sure he knows much, much more than M.I.T. economists who say that costs will decrease across the board, but hey, they used the facts within the bill to prepare that study so it is probably less reliable than Alexander’s word. In his defense, the thousand or so pages probably gave him a headache and he couldn’t finish reading the whole thing so I’ll give him a break for making unsupported bald-faced lies about the impact on the average American citizen. Certainly if he had read the whole thing it would have been much easier to offer an example (or two) of these ’surprises’ within the bill. I wonder where he draws the line on the cost of bills. It must be somewhere between $750 billion and $1 trillion since he voted for the bailout….
How long does the bible have to be before Alexander disputes that? Over 1 thousand pages = fraud. Under 1 thousand = legit. I love it when we can draw lines in the sand like this to make all arguments so much easier. Before you present the facts of your argument let me ask you this sir, do they or do they not fit within 1 thousands pages of text? Good day sir.
Oh, and last I checked we don’t divide the cost of every bill evenly between all residents of the US and send them a bill.
John “HT” D’oh,
Rest assured that I’m no fan of Lamar “Bailout” Alexander but the quote was something from recent news. I imagine if Mr. Alexander could get a piece of the health care reform pie, he’d be one of the first to belly up to the bar.
The fact that the vast majority of the clowns voting for Health Care Reform have read the measure is what makes it insane and not just the sheer cost or size of the bill.
For that matter, here’s a link to the massive beast of a bill that was passed by the house on November 8th: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
Personally I agree that we need reform but doing so in a mad rush, to me, represents poor stewardship (either in appearance or fact for most Americans). It also makes it a hard sell for Americans who see other areas such as economic woes as points that should take center stage.
60 Minutes Video on Fraud
When it comes to reform, first and foremost, I think that we need to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in the system. Looking at fraud, between medicaid and medicare, there’s reportedly $90 billion a year that’s lost by way of fraudulent claims. That in itself is nearly a trillion over a ten year period. While, much like your average congressman, I haven’t read the bill in its entirety, I am glad that the language in it does appear to address waste fraud and abuse. Simply addressing that (assuming the measure had teeth for addressing waste, fraud and abuse) would likely make the price tag a totally moot point. Thanks for the comments.
LEX