What happens when you pass a 3,000 page piece of legislation dealing with perhaps the most complex segment of American society that few legislators bothered to read, and that no one - not the authors of the bill, the Democratic leadership that sought its passage, or anyone in the White House - knows the consequences of the bill's thousands of provisions?According to NRO's Stephen Spruiell, you get stuff like this: Now another provision is blowing up in the Democrats' faces: a tax change that exposes companies such as Caterpillar, John Deere, and Verizon to hundreds of millions of dollars in new costs and may lead some of them to drop prescription-drug coverage for retirees.   The provision did not attract much attention during the larger debate over the health-care bill, but now corporate memos are starting to leak in which employees are told to expect changes to their health-care plans as a result of the legislation. The tax change affects a subsidy that was...(Read Full Post)