Rep. Issa Brags About Writing A Seven-Page Health Care Reform Bill

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Lazy)

As House Democrats released their combined health insurance reform bill, Republicans took to the streets in opposition.  Rather than attack the substance of the bill, the most common criticisms regarded the level of security at the press conference and the length of the bill.

It is a long bill.  At 1,990 pages, there's no denying that.  Why is it so long?  Because it's important. Fixing our nation's broken health care system is not something that can easily be done at the drop of a hat in just a few pages.  If it was that easy, it would have been done decades ago.

Yet that hasn't stopped Rep. Darrell Issa from trying.  Today Issa tweeted:

You read that correctly.  Rep. Issa foolishly tried to fix the entire health care system in seven pages. (Read it here, if you want.)

It took Issa and his staff roughly the same amount of energy to craft their plan to "reform" health care as it did to write the "Plant Breeders Equity Act of 2005" and a bill allowing the postal service to "accept donations as an additional source of funding for commemorative plaques." Those bills are five and three pages long, respectively.

An Indication Of Priorities

Rep. Issa's bite-size bill is a clear indication that neither he nor the Republican Party is truly dedicated to fixing America's health care system.  It's readily apparent that their top priority is defeating Democratic proposals in order to keep things the way they are.

When a member of Congress truly believes in an issue, he or she will spend months working on comprehensive legislation aimed at achieving meaningful results for their constituents.

Health care reform is a critical issue for American families and it may very well take close to 2,000 pages to right every wrong in the system.  And if it does, so be it.