March 16, 2010 5:09PM 

# Questions for Thoughtful ObamaCare Supporters, Part III 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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I’ve already posted [two](https://www.cato.org/2010/03/11/questions-for-thoughtful-obamacare-supporters/) [series](https://www.cato.org/2010/03/15/more-questions-for-thoughtful-obamacare-supporters/) of such queries. But every day brings new questions to mind. So here are a few more:

- What does it say that [pharmaceutical-industry lobbyists are meeting with House Democrats to write this legislation behind closed doors](http://www.politico.com/politicopulse/0310/politicopulse208.html)? Or that the pharmaceutical industry is preparing to spend millions of dollars on advertisements in support of the legislation?
- Does it trouble you that a former federal judge writes, “[Under Article I, Section 7, passage of one bill cannot be deemed to be enactment of another](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575121532877077328.html)”?
- Does it trouble you that Speaker Pelosi says of the proposed “deeming” strategy, “[I like it *because* people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503742.html)”? (Emphasis added.)
- What does it say that left-of-center *The Washington Post* editorializes that [the Democrats’ endgame seems “dodgy”](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/15/AR2010031503156.html) and “threatens to turn into something unseemly and, more important, contrary to Democrats’ promises of transparency and time for deliberation”?
- What does it say about the *feasibility* of the Obama health plan that Speaker Pelosi is drawn to the “deeming” strategy, [which she once opposed in a court of law](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34508.html)?

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