Rushing health care in America would be reckless and undemocratic

MITCH McCONNELL, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, once complained that President Barack Obama’s health-care bill was thrown together in a back room and then dropped on the Senate floor “with a stopwatch running”. Now he has made the tactic his own. Mr McConnell hopes to call a vote on a health-care bill that will have barely left the printer’s. A week before a vote that could remake a sixth of the economy, even many Republican senators claim not to know what the bill contains.