Do You Read the Fine Print

When you sign a document, do you read the fine print?  I must admit I have been guilty of signing a credit card agreement, even real estate transactions (at a house closing do you stop and read the fine print?), and car insurance without reading the fine print.

I have never had to contract on my own for health insurance.  I have had to either accept what was provided or find a way to live with it.  But, if I were in the marketplace, with my own dollars, looking for health insurance I would want to know what I was buying.  This is my life, and the life of my family that the federal government wants me to place in their hands and they don't want to tell me the details or how it would affect my family before they put it into law.

Congress, apparently, does not want us to know what we are buying in health care.  The process for legislation is complicated.  And, what our representatives agree to, in committee, is rewritten by lobbyists into "so called" legal language (arcane and not understandable to anyone with no access to the Congressional Record or the Library of Congress and days to figure it out).  Who knows what happens between markup and the real bill?

My daughter actually read all of HR3200.  She is an attorney with access to more information than I have.  Even she would be challenged to read some arcane language bill with reference to amending a zillion other bills and still know what was going on.

I think Americans want to know, specifically, how any health care reform will affect them. They would not buy a policy that refused to reveal the details and they are not buying a "trust me" policy from the Democrats.