The Problem With Passing A Law So You Can See What’s In it…
10th April 2010
Tim Cavanaugh connects the dots.
…is that all your supporters will just start imagining what’s in it. And then you (or actually, innocent bystanders in the private sector) will have to talk them down from the ledge.
I’d like to join in the funmaking, but how can this be a surprise? The first rule of freeloading is that you have nothing to gain by being shy. Of course people are making the phone call. Who can say for sure that if you called an insurance company right now and said “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act says you have to sell me insurance now,” you wouldn’t get somewhere?
There’s a new benefit on the table. Anybody who isn’t grabbing for it already is unworthy to be a citizen of Schnorrerstan.