Gross government waste or violations routinely come about when the bills are not read. Witness: Bush Bailout, Stimulus Package, Patriot Act. 
 
I don't care what Party a person belongs to. If a lawmaker is going to vote in favor of the bill, that person has a moral and fiduciary responsibility to read and thoroughly analyze the bill. This applies to any bill, not just the healthcare bill.
 
Competent deliberation is not possible if no one has read the bill. Read it. Understand it. Have a fine-tuning debate about it. Make the healthcare or any bill as good as it can be.
 
We've already had enough slipshod laws passed over the last decade. Let's get some good ones passed now.

I agree with your comment above about reading the bills they write.

When our legislators don't read and research the bills they pass into law, we often end up with gross violations of our rights or serious waste. And we end up with economic bubbles which burst and put us into serious recessions.
 
Witness violations of rights: Patriot Act
Gross waste: Bush Bailout, Stimulus package
Economic Bubble: Revising the Community Reinvestment Act, repealing of the Glass-Steagall Act, lowering lending requirements for financial instutions.
 
Legislators should read, understand and research the actual bill they are to pass, not some watered down interpretation to what the bill says.
 
We elect and pay them to do a good job, not pass the buck to someone unseen person we didn't elect. Sometimes it's what's not in the bill that causes the most harm. You can't know about these without personally reading the actual bill, and dotting the I's and crossing the T's.
 
Legislators should be proud enough of their work that they aren't afraid to post their legislation on the Internet before the vote.

Gross government waste or violations routinely come about when the bills are not read. Witness: Bush Bailout, Stimulus Package, Patriot Act. 
 
I don't care what Party a person belongs to. If a lawmaker is going to vote in favor of the bill, that person has a moral and fiduciary responsibility to read and thoroughly analyze the bill. This applies to any bill, not just the healthcare bill.
 
Competent deliberation is not possible if no one has read the bill. They need to read it, understand it and have a fine-tuning debate about it. They need to make the healthcare or any bill as good as it can be.