One Person’s Assessment of Healthcare

This is one lobbyists assessment of the status of healthcare as of today.

Subject: FW: Senate Health Care Reform Legislation

From my lobbyist friend  of JI

Today I began reading the report to accompany S.1796, America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009.  This is the report to accompany the so-called Baucus bill reported out by the Senate Finance Committee. (A report always accompanies any piece of legislation and basically explains in layman’s terms what the statutory language means.)

I read and took very precise notes on the first 100 pages or so of the report. That’s as far as I got today. I will continue my reading tomorrow.  At this point, I don’t think I will attempt to send each of you a summary of the report.  That’s because I learned from the first 20 pages that this legislation will eventually force everyone into a single payer government-run health care system, something that the White House and the leadership of the Senate and House continue to deny.  You really don’t need to know more than that.

You might like to read some of the report.  If so, go the website of the Library of Congress at:  www.loc.gov, under search type in Thomas Register, then select from the far left-hand corner of that page the fifth item down, Legislation, Congressional Activity.  That will bring up a page with several options.  Click on Senate Finance Committee Version of S.1796, America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009  This will bring up the report I mention above.

As you know, H.R. 3200, the House version of the bill and S.1796, the Senate version, will be considered by conferees from the House and Senate before any final legislation is written and passed.  But I think it’s safe to say that the final House version will contain a public-option and the Senate version will use different weasel words to accomplish the same thing in the end.

Get ready for government-run health care.  It appears to be on the way, if these bills pass.  Isn’t our government wonderful?

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