Impress your friends: Read the bill
October 21, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffRemember when protesters at this summer’s town hall meetings started chanting “Read the bill! Read the bill!“?
Friends, don’t let this happen to you.
The Senate Finance Committee has now posted its health care bill—all 1,502 pages of it—so that it’s viewable for anyone to see.
A couple of quick observations:
First, unlike a lot of web-based .pdfs, this one seems to be cut-and-pastable. Considering some of the crazy and incorrect information floating around about this legislation, maybe not such a good idea.
Second, this appears near the very beginning of the document:
bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar
Read twice? Do they mean out loud? We happen to have obtained a shot of Senator Orrin Hatch, caught around page 650 of the second reading:
For those who prefer a somewhat pithier gateway into the world of health care reform, we return you to a previous post: “Health care reform explained on the back of a napkin.”
