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Article: Lots of pages, lots of inane complaints by donald luzzatto.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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THE 1,990-PAGE health care bill passed by the House of Representatives is a tangle of dense legalese inadequate to the task at hand. What it isn't, though, is too long.
I realize that critics -- including me -- have slapped at the bill's girth as shorthand for its abandonment of principles (reduce costs, extend coverage), as well as its swap of government intrusion for insurance company avarice.
But more than a few opponents have derided the bill for its number of pages, toting around giant stacks of paper like dead-tree talismans against government vampirism.
As if the penchant of some folks in Congress for hair-afire overstatement didn't make ...