Reading into Healthcare Reform: Ambiguity and Interpretation

The problem with a document that is 1000 pages long is that it is so open to interpretation that by nature the message or instruction therein becomes ambiguous. There can be so many different interpretations on the way things are read it is ridiculous. Some people can interpret a simple procedure to notify the elderly of end of life decisions as the promotion of euthanasia for the elderly. It is ridiculous to create a text that is going to rival the bible on interpretation for something as specific as Healthcare and Health Insurance Reform, or is it?

If we look at the Bible, we see a text that has been translated, interpreted and described in various different ways. People have established laws for life based upon a text that is not only open to interpretation but in many ways ambiguous and symbolic. So why cant we do this with Healthcare Reform? The problem with doing this in our secular society is that there are various different parties of thought that already have a certain mindset and set of texts they believe in, namely the US Constitution. The agendas are not nearly as pure as biblical ones. Hardly divinely inspired, most advocates and oppositions are either social rights promoters or corporate patsies.

So yes, large documents base don ambiguity as a way to organize our social order does work. For a theocratic society basing themselves on religions beliefs and divine authority it can work, but for a secular society where greed and deception run the game…we have alot to worry about.