No problem, they can just amend it in the Senate.

Ha! Just kidding. They can’t amend it in the Senate. They have to pass the same bill the House passed.

AP: Gap in health care law’s protection for children.

WASHINGTON — Hours after President Barack Obama signed historic health care legislation, a potential problem emerged. Administration officials are now scrambling to fix a gap in highly touted benefits for children.

Wh…well, I don’t believe that for a second. Every member of Congress read that bill, cover to cover. Right? Because that’s the responsible thing to do. No way they didn’t know this thing inside and out. All 2,800 pages of it.

Right? They couldn’t have made a mistake like that.

Obama made better coverage for children a centerpiece of his health care remake, but it turns out the letter of the law provided a less-than-complete guarantee that kids with health problems would not be shut out of coverage.

Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.

So you’re saying…that was a mistake?

Gee, I wonder if there could be other mistakes in the bill. Who’s supposed to root those things out?

Who’s supposed to make sure that we’re sticking it to the insurance industry and “for profit” health care? After all those months and months of demonizing them, somebody was supposed to make sure.

Weren’t they?

Via Memeorandum.