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am_Unition · 208 days ago · link ·
Included in the bill was a provision that repeals the Affordable Care Act's "individual mandate", and another provision that enables (oil/natural gas) drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Similarly, I would be surprised if the Affordable Care Act didn't include at least a few provisions seemingly unrelated to healthcare. Extreme partisanship is undoubtedly the driver of this type of legislative packaging, and I think the method is damaging to democracy, on the whole. Especially when the final, massive (several hundred pages long) bill is released only several days or a couple of weeks before the vote is set to take place.
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johnnyFive · 208 days ago · link ·
Absolutely. There's still some question about just how many unintentional loopholes are going to show up, which Congress may or may not actually be able to close.
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Somewhat ironically, I understand parliamentary rules may dictate that fixing some of the loopholes and even straight up errors might take 60 votes. Go figure. And good luck getting any Democratic hello with that. "Republicans passed a bill they didn't read and now they want us to bail them out. Thanks but no thanks."
Well, well, even USA today doesn't necessarily agree with this take. It is amazing the "talking points syndrome" continues with inaccurate reporting. We don't have many real journalists any more; we have opinionists masquerading as journalists.
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johnnyFive · 208 days ago · link ·
Neither of those links contradict either WaPo's editorial or the overwhelming consensus of economists. The link is to an editorial.opinionists masquerading as journalists.