Dawn of the New Age

Beginning herewith, a new series.  Our great and good friend, Ms. Speaker Pelosi, told us last week that passing National Healthcare would be a good thing, because then people "can find out what is in it."

Passage happened Sunday, and lo and behold, details about what's in the bill are coming out.  Most would think that such details would best be reviewed by Congresspersons and voters before the bill is signed into law, but hey, that's only going to happen in a perfect world.  And the Dems haven't promised perfection, only Utopia.

So in this series, we will offer hot-off-the presses details as and when they come available. Click the Label "National Healthcare" for all posts in this series.

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Jen Rubin reports from Politico that - surprise! - some Congress people will not be subject to Utopia-Known-As-National-Healthcare:

The health care reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama Tuesday requires members of Congress and their office staffs to buy insurance through the state-run exchanges it creates — but it may exempt staffers who work for congressional committees or for party leaders in the House and Senate.

Staffers and members on both sides of the aisle call it an “inequity” and an “outrage” — a loophole that exempts the staffers most involved in writing and passing the bill from one of its key requirements.

President Obama insisted ad nauseum that if you like your current health plan, you can keep your current health plan. However, as Veronique de Rugy points out, CBS News has finally uncovered the explosive truth:

CBS Evening News had this story yesterday about how small business now have an incentive to drop employees' coverage: "Small businesses employ more than half the workers in this country and those businesses provide health insurance to nearly half of their workers, but will they continue to provide it under the new healthcare law?"

CBS added, "Last year, Allentown, Pennsylvania, businessman Dick Bus saw his company's health insurance costs spike 33 percent.…The new law seeks to limit those kinds of increases, while giving businesses incentives to cover more workers," but "there are potential problems. Case in point: It would be much cheaper for Dick Bus to drop the generous coverage he now offers…his 120 workers.....Saving $390,000....