The Huffington Post’s Jeffrey Young writes:
Senate Republicans are hurling themselves toward passing an incredibly unpopular set of health care reforms that even they don’t understand, haven’t seen and likely won’t see until just before it hits the floor.
This rightly has raised the hackles not only of Senate Democrats and the media, but anyone who values transparency in government or is anxious about the consequences of reordering the American health care system and taking away health coverage from millions of people.
But as important as the legislation’s details will turn out to be, there’s a simple, fundamental, incontrovertible fact about whatever the Senate health care reform bill winds up looking like: The purpose of this bill is to dramatically scale back the safety net so wealthy people and health care companies can get a massive tax cut.
It’s the biggest open secret about the secret Senate health care bill.
"What’s shocking is not that the Senate is attempting to pass this bill under a shroud of secrecy; it’s that the strategy is working. With few exceptions, mainstream media outlets have either ignored the Senate health care discussions or downplayed their urgency." -- Jeremy Slevin, Center for American Progress
The details matter. But at its core, it’s still a massive tax cut paid for by depriving millions of health care.
By Jeffrey Young
