The Right Wing pathetically points to a mis-statement in the throes of the passage of the Affordable Care Act which took a year. When Speaker Pelosi stated "We have to pass it to find out what is in it," it was the fact the law would lead to regulation. The original law states throughout, that the burden of writing the regulation as stated by the law fell to the responsibility of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It would be the regulation that would spell out the form the law would take.
Minority Leader Pelosi is a wonderful person and knows how dearly the country needs universal healthcare. At the very moment she stated these words on the house floor in recognition of the Late Senator Edward Kennedy, people were dying by the tens of thousand in the USA every year either with or without health insurance. But, these deaths were special. Those deaths could have been prevented. No, not just by receiving preventive care, but, by preventing victimization by the health insurance industry itself.
She is a moral person that understands Americans needs protection from cancelled contracts and ridiculous definitions of pre-existing conditions. She helped pass the law under her Speakership and the regulations were written and today we are on the verge of engaging the opportunity of health care for all. She has every reason to be proud of her accomplishment. It is necessary and vital and it raises the moral content of the nation. We have laws now that protect the innocent and that is one of the most important reasons to legislate.
Well done.
