What did they find in the Health Care Bill NOW?

The Health Care Bill passed by Congress may have accidentally stripped them of health care coverage.

Just to review, Nancy Pelosi said we would be excited when we started finding out what is in the bill. It will be good for part-time artists. Not to mention violent sex offenders who want Viagra and child abusers on Indian reservations.

Even though they tried to divert attention from the bill to its opponents, we soon started to find things out about the bill. (If Nancy Pelosi REALLY thought that the Tea Party protesters were so violent, why did she lead a group of legislators through the protest, wearing that Cheshire cat grin of hers and carrying a giant, cartoon-sized gavel, after the vote?).

We found out, for example, that senior Democratic staffers who helped write the bill were exempted from its restrictions. Legislators who made sleazy deals in return for their votes, like Ben Nelson, were kicked under the bus. I'm not sure if the special deals for rich people in Nevada, not to mention union members who are paid more than their non-union counterparts, are still in there. All in all, approval of this bill was an ugly, messy, corrupt, haphazard process.

Members of Congress were surprised when corporations took massive charges against earnings, decreasing their ability to hire more employees during this recession. Henry Waxman declared war on those who had followed accounting rules for which he voted. Glenn Reynolds explains that this is not because Rep. Waxman is stupid.

Waxman and his colleagues in Congress can't possibly understand the health care market well enough to fix it. But what's more striking is that Waxman's outraged reaction revealed that they don't even understand their own area of responsibility - regulation -- well enough to predict the effect of changes in legislation.

If Congress were able to understand what was in the bill, would they have used language which might deny them health care coverage?

Update:  From a smaller, less complex country where government health care is firmly, solidly established, a grand idea for politicians.  Read through the entire post for an exciting political decision to waive health and safety regulations for health care workers belonging to a certain minority. Not that conditions are much better without those exceptions to sanitary procedures.

Imagine what politicizing health care would be like in the vastly larger USA:

The politics of deciding who gets what in the way of medical treatment doubtlessly will push aside traditional affairs of state. Every member of Congress will need to hire several staff members just to manage constituents' complaints about their care. Elections will be won and lost on the basis of who can get the most in the way of health care for their districts.

We will become the Gulliver of nations, a great power whose leaders are tied up in strings as they spend much of their time addressing the medical complaints, valid and imagined, of their electorate.

There's something to be said for allowing the individual states to become "laboratories" for the best health care policies.  The USA is so big and complex.  Socialized medicine would fall into a miserable condition in the USA faster than it has done in Europe, due to the size and complexity of our nation.  British hospitals were not ALWAYS compared to those in the third world.

UPDATE II:  Waxman has cancelled his show trials, apparently.

UPDATE III: Where were all the reporters before the health care bill passed? Oh, and incidentally, the promises that insurance premiums would be lower and that less-healthy citizens would pay less may not be true.