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Originally Posted by cologal
Reading aloud a bill to no one is a waste of time. And you believe the Repubs in the last administration read aloud or read the bills at all. Sure I believe that.
On at least one point you are clearly confusing the Obama administration with the Bush administration. TARP was issued by Paulson....under Bush.
I support reforming the healthcare system because it needs it. I have looked all over for the bill itself so I could read it but alas...no luck.
And your choice of the word regime is telling.
So are you a birther too?
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Does it matter what happened in the last administration, or the one before it, or before it ad infinitum? Yes, but only to the extent of insuring what was done wrong isn't repeated. Two wrongs definitely don't make a right.
And since the delivery of health care crosses state lines, an argument can be made that the "Commerce Clause" of the Constitution can apply to allow federal intervention in health care. With the FDA involved, HIPPA land other related activities, it's not a hard argument.
However, having the authority and exercising it badly and expensively as a national experiment with no empirical data prior to full implementation is foolhardy.