The long and the short of it
Too Long:
“The best way to get a sense of what Speaker Pelosi’s takeover of health care looks like is to actually look at it. Just shy of 2,000 pages, it runs more than 620 pages longer than the government-run plan Hillary Clinton proposed in 1993. [It’s] 1,990 pages of bureaucracy.” – House Minority Leader John Boehner, in October
Too Short:
“The White House’s ‘plan’ consists of an 11-page outline, which has not been scored by the Congressional Budget Office or posted online as legislative text. So they want to reorganize one-sixth of the United States’ economy with a document shorter than a comic book, and they’re complaining that they can’t find our plan on their own website? C’mon.” – Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner, today
Just Right:
“First it was too long, now it’s too short. Goldilocks is easier to please than these folks.” – Doug Thornell, adviser to DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen
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February 24th, 2010 at 7:59 am
Where’s your confusion? The Health Care Bill should be longer than 11 pages, but shorter than 1,990.
February 24th, 2010 at 10:16 am
I guess you’re right. The House Republican health proposal is 230 pages. Just right (except that it doesn’t provide insurance to the uninsured, doesn’t block insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions, and doesn’t close the Medicare Part D “donut hole”).
Meanwhile, hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted into the bipartisan House and Senate bills that have already passed and all four of the Republican principles of health reform are already incorporated into President Obama’s proposal. Of course, that doesn’t mean obstructionist Congressional Republicans will ever vote for it.