Every big idea that works is marked by simplicity, by clarity. You can understand it when you hear it, and you can explain it to people. Social Security: Retired workers receive a public pension to help them through old age. Medicare: People over 65 can receive taxpayer-funded health care. Welfare: If you have no money and cannot support yourself, we will help as you get back on your feet.I'll tell you what people do understand: They understand what it means when legislators vote on 1,200 page bills they haven't read.
These things are clear. I understand them. You understand them. The president's health-care plan is not clear, and I mean that not only in the sense of "he hasn't told us his plan." I mean it in terms of the voodoo phrases, this gobbledygook, this secret language of government that no one understands—"single payer," "public option," "insurance marketplace exchange." No one understands what this stuff means, nobody normal.
And when normal people don't know what the words mean, they don't say to themselves, "I may not understand, but my trusty government surely does, and will treat me and mine with respect." They think, "I can't get what these people are talking about. They must be trying to get one past me. So I'll vote no."
And it's not good.
And they want no part of it.
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I would guess that many of the people in congress must have law backgrounds because with so much verbage they always leave themselves an out on what something means. Be concise and to the point, then we all will know what they mean. How can anyone comprehend, let alone read, their proposal on health care and understand fully what it contains in 1,200 pages, this is ridiculous.
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