whonew wrote:
AZKC wrote: 
As Speaker Pelosi so famously said, “It’s going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.”


You're such an independent when you repeat these Republican talking point gems.

She wasn't saying that SHE didn't know what was in it. She was saying that people would see the actually effects of the law after it was passed rather than what the lying scumbag Republicans were claiming that the law would do.
Whether you want to admit it or not, PPACA is not a well crafted law and it only passed the Congress by the use of overt bribes to various Congressmen who only were willing to vote for it if they could use their vote to pry changes to the basic law to make it more palatable to their constituencies.

It was done on a totally artificial deadline, put out by our President, for no other reason that he knew the more people learned about the program the more people would not want it passed.

So much of how the law works is executive departments writing rules, bureaucrats who are not answerable to voters in any way.

Speaker Pelosi didn't know exactly how PPACA would be implemented because it wasn't possible to know. Much of how PPACA is going to be implemented is still undecided even today. The brouhaha over the free contraception paid for by the health insurance paid for by religious institutions is just part and parcel of this inability for anyone to know what the PPACA actually had in it at time of passage.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson