Darn, I thought sure my comment on the subject would convince Elwood to do a 180. Oh well!

Two other courts have, with far less media hoopla, upheld that provision. Both conservative and liberal legal gurus have said they expect it to be upheld. I’m not so sure. So, we’ll see where it goes.

Of course, if the Supremes do rule that mandated coverage exceeds Congressional authority, I’m sure there will be challenges to Medicare on the same basis. Part B (Medical) is optional. Part A (Hospital) isn’t. In fact, I believe Dick Armey already has a case going on that. He’s one free market conservative who didn’t like being forced to give up his previous taxpayer-funded federal employee health coverage as a member of Congress at 65 and join the common folk in Medicare. Life’s a bummer. Should he or other challengers prevail, we’ll see how all the “ObamaCare” bashers like them apples.

Nice revisionist spin try.

It’s still an act of unmitigated gall on Pelosi’s part.

It still comes down to pass the bill then read it.

Hopefully the courts will dispose of Ms. Pelosi’s grand scheme of Obamacare. The first shoe just dropped yesterday.

Correct quote:

“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

In other words, so that people can look at it in it’s enacted form, without all the misrepresentations about death panels, 10 thousand IRS agents and blah, blah, blah.

Imagine if we had today’s blogosphere, Fox, MSNBC, and wing-nut radio while those guys in Phily were working on the Constitution.

“Pass the bill, then read it” –Nancy Pelosi