GOP health care bill kept private to avoid public criticism
Originally published by The Morning Call on July 21, 2017 The effort that the Republican U.S. Senate leadership is making to hide the health care bill they will soon bring to a vote tells us just how bad that bill is likely to be. Recent reports indicate that the Senate leadership has been secretly sending pieces of their health care legislation to the Congressional Budget Office to secure the score necessary to pass the bill under rules that allow them to avoid a filibuster. They intend to bring a bill to the floor next week. They plan to replace that bill with the actual bill they intend to pass not much more than 24 hours before the final vote. This process is wrong. Democracy requires not just that we elect political decision-makers, but that they act transparently, in full public view. Long before a vote on complicated legislation like this,… Continue reading
