Myth: “Democrats didn’t even read the Health Care Reform bill before they passed it”.
Nancy Pelosi even said ‘We have to pass the (health care) bill so we can find out what is in it”.
The claim that Democrats never read the Health Care Reform bill is an often repeated falsehood. Democrats did, in fact, read the bill before they voted on it. What Nancy Pelosi actually said was “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of controversy.” She wasn’t talking about members of Congress. She was speaking to the American people, saying that the American people didn’t know what was in the bill and had been lied to by the Republicans. Since you, the American people, were misled, you wouldn’t know the truth about the Health care bill until after it is passed.
Watch Nancy Pelosi’s actual statement here and see for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU
We need to come to terms with our Politicians, which means waking up to their Reality and not their propaganda. The reality is We The People want Single Payer, Universal healthcare for everyone in this country. Chinese/American Philosopher Lin Yutang stated “a society is only as healthy as it’s sickest member.” Well, between the Psychopaths in leadership, Pelosi incuded, and 50 Million of us Americans living in poverty, this battle is the epitome of absurdity. As it stands, our children will not live the five years we are living now. Why is that? Lack of available Health care is the number one reason Americans are slowly, painfully dying, The Economy is the 2nd reason they are dying homeless, suffering illnesses no one will lift a finger to treat. Pelosi told her constituency in 2004 when we reelected her that she’d move to impeach Bush. A few days after becoming Speaker, she told the world that “Impeachment was off the table.” She lied, we reelected her again only because the Republicans have gone so far off the edge, we were afraid not to, but we have the same thing from her as in 04, and from all the rest. Politicians are more completely owned by their Corporate handlers than any Slave allowed themselves to be by an American slave owner’, as politicians consciously chose their enslavement in exchange for a 1%er’s lifestyle. If more than 20 Senators and Representatives read the ACA bill in full, I would be more than surprised and assume it was for the very purposes that they are employing, destroying the American People, For our Fascist Politicians, simple distraction…..from what we really need to do……..
So when the President along with all the Democrats said that “if you like your plan, you can keep it”, they knowingly weren’t telling the truth? In other words, they lied.
This doesn’t explain why we the People can’t know what’s in the bill before the fact of it being passed. We can assess it for ourselves even in spite of either party’s attempts to “mislead” us. I honestly doubt that every Democrat has read the bill. In fact, 39 House Democrats voted AGAINST it. How does this explain Pelosi’s argument? Why would a Democrat vote against something that their party was trying to support as a whole?
Will, the Affordable Care Act was posted online. The American people had every opportunity to read it. Every member of Congress had the opportunity to read the bill since they were working on it for over a year when it finally passed.
Pelosi simply said, we need to pass this bill so the American people can find out whats in it without the fog of lies by Republicans confusing people. She probably never guessed that Republicans would still be lying about this law four years after it passed.