Just how ignorant is its namesake about it?
Well, to be fair, he could be just lying.
[Update a while later]
Unravel it, and you get a train wreck.
Actually, you get a train wreck just in trying to implement it:
Baucus isn’t the only Capitol Hill Democrat worried about a “train wreck,” according to The Hill. Even those not yet on Capitol Hill have distanced themselves from the unpopular program. Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a Democrat running for a House seat in a South Carolina special election, called the ACA “extremely problematic.”
As 2014 draws ever closer, and the true scale of the problems of ObamaCare become apparent, expect more Democratic incumbents to commiserate with their constituents about the “extremely problematic” “train wreck” they imposed on them. They had better not expect the voters to let them off the hook, however, no matter how many times Obama tells them they have nothing to worry about.
Everyone running next year against an opponent who voted for this monstrosity should make it a focus of their campaign. Even if the opponent renounces their own vote to attempt to save their seat (that’s the polite word…), their judgment should be called into question.
Of course. Why is this at all surprising? I can guarantee you that no elected official at the federal level has read through the entire thing. None of them have a clue what’s in it.
“Why did you have to see the ill effects of this legislation in action to renounce your vote, Senator? Why didn’t you simply refuse to vote in the first place for a bill that you weren’t given enough time to read and understand — like any intelligent person would have done?”
I was thinking, the places dropping Medicare treatments probably tend to be the places with the highest cost of living, namely urban areas. Those places tend to be Democrat. So we might have a health care policy that to some degree (in addition to the existential threat against labor unions which negotiate “Cadillac plans” for their members health benefits) selectively harms the primary advocates for that policy.
That’s a terrible thing. Really.