@revelette1,
If passed, still has to make it through the Senate which most everyone thinks is unlikely.
This is worth attending to if only as a study in propaganda but that's an important aspect of how the GOP now operates.
Quote:A Republican congressman admitted Thursday that he hadn’t read Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, despite announcing his intent to vote for it Wednesday.
“Oh, gosh, let’s put it this way, people in my office have read all the parts of the bill,” Rep. Tom Garrett (R-VA) told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. “I don’t think any individual has read the whole bill, but that’s why we have staff.”
Garrett earlier told Ruhle, referencing the passage of Obamacare, that “I have said all along that it was sort of hypocrisy for us to lament passing a bill to find out what’s in it and do the same thing.”
But he insisted members of Congress had “several months to sort of wrap our brains around this.”
TPM
After the ACA was passed under Obama, the right wing media and politicos and then countless right wing supporters on sites like this one parroted the "no one has even read the bill" line. If you queried these posters regarding other bills and who will have read them top to bottom, you would not get anything close to a thoughtful or rational answer. That's because those people posting had been trained to NOT think rationally.
There's educational value in Garrett now being honest about the process of how a bill gets reviewed (though lobbyists are often involved as well which he doesn't say) but we need to understand that he (or others) saying it at this point is obviously not because of some notion that a well-educated electorate is in everyone's best interest -
he's explaining it now because he/they must account for the earlier ACA propaganda line (which works against them here).
