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Health Care Text

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
Health Care Text
By
Jamie Dupree
@ October 20, 2009 12:00 AM

Six days after the Senate Finance Committee approved a health reform bill, the panel released the legislative text to go along with that effort. It totals out at 1,502 pages, with all kinds of fine print for you to explore.

If you want to start reading the bill, then you can find it at http://is.gd/4rnoc

The bill has 13 instances where "such sums" would be spent on certain items in the bill:

* Health Insurance Consumer Assistance Grants
* Medicaid Global Payment System Demonstration Project
* Pediatric Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project
* Services to Individuals With a Postpartum Condition and Their Families
* Elder Justice Coordinating Council
* Advisory Board on Elder Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
* Report To Law Enforcement of Crimes Occurring in Federally Funded Long-Term Care Facilities
* Teaching Health Centers Development Grants
* Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
* Improved Complaint System for Medicare Prescription Drug Program
* National Independent Monitor Pilot Program
* National Demonstration Projects on Culture Change and Use of Information Technology In Nursing Homes
* Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit

As for what's stuffed in this Finance bill, let's face it, we can look through this thing for days and days to find things.

For example, there was this language on eligibility for the Health Insurance Consumer Assistance Grants mentioned above:

"In this section, the term 'eligible entity' means any public, private, or not-for-profit consumer assistance organizations. Such term includes ''(A) any commercial fishing organization, any ranching or farming organization, or any other organization capable of conducting community-based health care outreach and enrollment assistance for workers who are hard to reach or employed in rural areas."

"Fishing" gets two mentions in the bill; the other is about workers in "high risk" professions.

A quick swing through the bill revealed all kinds of legislative gobbledygook, which certainly must mean something to someone, like this on page 1068:

"The productivity adjustment described in this subclause, with respect to an increase or change for a fiscal year or year or cost reporting period, or other annual period, is a productivity adjustment equal to the 10-year moving average of changes in annual economy-wide private nonfarm business multi-factor productivity (as projected by the Secretary for the applicable fiscal year, cost reporting period, or other annual period)."

So take a few minutes and go through the bill to see what you find, and let me know.

http://wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree/2009/10/health-care-text.html
 

Mike

Well-known member
Something needs to be done to make all Bills in Congress be put into a plain language format. :roll:

We can read for days and not understand some of this gobble-de-goop because they are always referring to others laws etc., and generally deceitful.

I suppose the way they are written is for a purpose...........to keep us from understanding what is in them. :mad: :mad:
 
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