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Video: Rep. Conyers (D-MI) Admits Health Care Bill is Indecipherable

Posted By Gerrit Lansing On July 27, 2009 @ 3:54 pm In Health Care | 23 Comments

Although we’d like to see all lawmakers read all the bills they sign, we understand Rep. Conyers’s (D-MI) exasperation when he says the 1,018-page House health care bill is indecipherable without a a pair of lawyers to translate it. So maybe each lawmaker should get a whole team of lawyers to help read it?

For taxpayers’ sake, let’s hope these lawyers don’t charge by the page: at $1.3 trillion [1], the bill clocks in at $1.264 billion per page [2]. 

Better yet, lawmakers should write a bill that makes health care portable and affordable [3]… and decipherable.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACbwND52rrw[/youtube]

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[1] $1.3 trillion: http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=324

[2] $1.264 billion per page: http://www.foundry.org/2009/07/15/morning-bell-the-houses-hidden-health-care-train-wreck/

[3] lawmakers should write a bill that makes health care portable and affordable: http://www.foundry.org/2008/12/04/morning-bell-health-care-reform-we-beleive-in/

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