Let’s ‘find out what’s in it’

Democrats continue with their desperate push to pass this Frankenstein’s monster known as health care reform. Every once in a while, though, the truth comes dribbling through all the rhetoric.

Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tried to defend the measure based on the fact that it would promote a “healthier America” where “preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for … “

Never mind most analysts agree that expanding “preventive” care will do absolutely nothing to bring down health care costs — the supposed purpose of this legislation. In fact, it will almost certainly do the opposite.

Ms. Pelosi continued saying, “You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. … But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Read that again. “We have to pass this bill so that you can find out what is in it … ” No kidding.

Nor is Ms. Pelosi the first high-ranking House member to admit that they don’t have a clue what’s actually in the measure, nor do they care.

Last summer, Rep. Steny Hoyer, Ms. Pelosi’s left-hand man, said, “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes.”

Also last summer, attendees at a National Press Club luncheon were honored to have House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., as the featured speaker.

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’ ” he said. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

In fact, the most radical overhaul of the nation’s health care system in history is really a giant social experiment that nobody — not even its most ardent supporters — can predict where it will lead. But don’t squirm: We’re just their little guinea pigs.