An Attorney on the Health Care Bill

Someone sent me this link this morning. It goes back a few weeks but it is an interesting take by attorney Michael Mconnelly who finished reading the whole health care bill, all one thousand and eighteen pages which is a commendable feat. SEE HERE I started and bogged down pretty quickly. The language is convolved and confusing, almost as if it were written to mystify. Mconnelly's conclusion is sobering:

...I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The interesting thing is how many people are in denial. At the Goodlatte Townhall meeting I attended yesterday I talked to some people who didn't seem to care what the bill actually said, or that it would put in place a Byzantine array of Federal agencies all of which would take their pound of flesh (How can this possibly save money? — it can't and they can't possibly not know it. So they are lying.) and impose their rules and regulations over the good judgment of the patients and their doctors.
The arguments you hear are all inspired by misinformation about the way our economy works. I heard "profit" denigrated a hundred times by people who don't understand what profit is or how a free market economy works. It's actually quite scary how misinformed people are. Profits are what makes possible new technology, now innovations, new buildings and machines and it is profit that gives people the leisure to think of new ideas. Without profits you have no medical system at all because you are still eking out a living from a cave and trying to find food with a club. You didn't have time to discover fire or the wheel or accomplish much of anything but a subsistence existence. But that doesn't keep people from buying into the idea that profit is about greed. They are people with a diminished understanding who would sacrifice their freedom because of their brainwashed ignorance.