Dawn of the New Age

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Good for business? Bring down costs? Ehrm, apparently not. Jennifer Rubin informs us that it took just a few days for National Healthcare to suck $4.5 billion out from the bottom lines of just three American companies.

But the Dems can fix that. Henry Waxman forthrightly announces a plan to shoot the messengers.

The New York Times scoops everyone yesterday with the shocking discovery that National Healthcare " ... may be as much of a burden to some state budgets as it is a boon to uninsured consumers." Except Philip Klein warned of precisely this problem back in July of last year. Hey, NYT, keep up the good work! I'm sure all those readers will come back some day.

Dawn of the New Age

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Is this Healthcare reform or socialism? Before passage, the New York Times said it was Healthcare reform and Glenn Beck said socialism. After passage, the Times reaches across the aisle to Mr. Beck, and declares the essential rationale to be income redistribution. James Taranto quotes the Times' James Leonhardt as "praising ObamaCare as 'the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago' "

Fast food will still be fast, unless you have to read a menu. Mike Riggs informs us what our Betters in Washington tucked into Healthcare.

If they can't get straight what's in the bill, Mary Katharine Ham wonders how they can run 1/6th of the American economy. Apparently, our President misstated the bill's coverages during the signing ceremony.

Dawn of the New Age

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President Obama crowed: "Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions." Not so, says the AP and Daniel Foster:

Full protection for children would not come until 2014, said Kate Cyrul, a spokeswoman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, another panel that authored the legislation. That's the same year when insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to any person on account of health problems

It appears a 2,700 page bill was not quite big enough for Congress to save the children this year, inasmuch as it was already too big for the President to actually read it before it passed.

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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