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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
We keep referring to HR 3200 which, if I understand correctly, is for the most part the healthcare reform plan put forward by the White House, all 1,017 pages of it. I guess there are a couple of other less inclusive bills batting around the House, but this is supposed to be the one that embraces the administration's plan for reform.
The Senate has apparently not responded with a bill from that body. I guess that might mean that they don't want to put forth the effort to actually draft a bill, choosing rather to simply negotiate whatever bill comes out of the House in joint committee.
But as far as "full disclosure" and "transparency" is concerned, I don't know what more the administration could do beyond this. Maybe read it for us? Nah, we can do that. Here it is...
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...3200ih.txt.pdf |
As the Administration has ghost-written the legislation sponsored by Rep. Dingell (
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03200:), and the fact that the "thomas" URL has all the bill's content, that is all that is necessary to make it available. Now, I'm not sure how sharp everyone on this board is, but I know that the 800+ pages, many of which link into other statutes which also have to be researched, took me quite a bit of time to go through in a cursory manner. There's a lot of technical content meshed with a lot of vague "will do later" items that I still don't understand.
My point is, this bill is a lulu, and is as intense to go through as any document I have seen in quite a while. As my knowledge of medical systems is minimal, there's a lot of questions I have, and that's with a cursory review.
This is more than a "trust me" exercise. Shouldn't it get the full attention of Congress before committing $1Trillion and initiating 4 years of utter confusion?