Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

By: John Packham

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: March 24, 2026

Words: 1,441

Last Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago

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Last summer, President Trump signed H.R.1 or the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law. H.R.1 is certainly “big” (870 pages of final legislative text to be exact) and, by definition, a “bill.” It is, however, anything but beautiful.

Mincing no words, health economist David Cutler called it “(t)he worst piece of health care legislation ever,” noting that “as bad as it is as economic policy, the bill is even worse as …

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