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Richard E. Ralston: Why rush health-care legislation?
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, July 4, 2009
Why does Congress have to rush through a huge bill transforming health care and a seventh of the total economy? (“Act fast on health care, Obama,” Froma Harrop column, June 25) Are we afraid that some congressmen voting for it might actually read it first? That they might determine what it will cost before they pass it? Must they be pressured to vote for a bill that no one can understand, or read, or even lift? Right now?
That was the theory behind the stimulus bill, and we will be living with the consequences of that for many years. Let’s not make our health-care system worse with the same frantic thoughtlessness.
RICHARD E. RALSTON
Newport Beach, Calif.
The writer is executive director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine.
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