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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Yep. And I think this is why the initial big push to pass something without careful review and discussion of the final bill was really odd and to me suspicious.
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See, I didn't find that odd or suspicious at all -- to me that seemed like business as usual. Congress passes monster bills all the time that lots of people (including too many members of Congress) haven't studied carefully. Something like this (typically) has to be done in an off-election year. It made perfect sense, while there was a "mandate" behind the president and while he has a majority in Congress to try and do something quickly, especially on an issue that historically generates lots of heat. And it's not like it came out of a vacuum or was unexpected.
As for the single-payer fear, I think it has less to do with a slippery slope
per se and much more to do with deep-seeded (and sometimes rational, sometimes irrational) American distrust of anything that seems to have even a sniff of socialism or government control/oversight about it.
And sorry -- right now I don't know where to look for the latest versions of any bills.
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