Health care reform legislation will be debated in the House this coming week, and the issue is all teed up.
H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, was introduced last week—all 1,990 pages of it.
You can see it by clicking “Read the bill” in the “Learn more” box on the bill’s page.
The Los [...]
The Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill has finally been introducted. It is S. 1796.
At this writing, the bill text is not available, but reports have it that it is 1,502 pages long. To read it, go to the bill page, and click on “Read the Bill” in the “Learn More” box. (Again, if it’s [...]
Site visitor Blaine Whittle writes in to note that his petition on Change.org is “#5 with a bullet this week.” Congratulations, Blaine!
The petition supports H.R. 676, the United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. According to its authors, it would provide comprehensive health insurance coverage for all [...]
A little over $12,000 per U.S. family. That’s the estimated cost of a piece of health care legislation called H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. I don’t know if “affordable” should really be in the title . . . .
It’s a preliminary estimate, and the bill is very complex, but [...]
“Instead of saving the federal government from fiscal catastrophe, the health reform measures being drafted by congressional Democrats would increase rather than reduce public spending on health care . . . .”
That’s the lead sentence in a Washington Post article about testimony in Congress from the Congressional Budget Office today. The CBO is the source [...]
S. 1252 would “promote ocean and human health.”
Let’s say you’ve been injured by a doctor. Who do you want deciding what happens? Do you want to be able to go to court, or do you want your claim considered by a “health care tribunal”?
The people in the picture to the right are not a health care tribunal. They’re a random group that [...]
As early as Monday, Senator Kennedy (D-MA) may unveil health care legislation, and President Obama says that he wants this issue to be dealt with this year. All this is according to a Washington Post story.
According to the Post:
In many respects it adopts the most liberal approaches to health reform being discussed in Washington. Kennedy, [...]
We’ve pointed out new constitutional amendments a couple of times here. Well, a bunch of new ones are on Congress’ docket.
Just for you, we’ve organized them into two piles. From the consistent-with-our-scheme-of-negative-rights pile, there’s:
H. J. Res. 28, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote
H. J. [...]
Since we’ve been in big economic stimulus bills and such up to our necks, I haven’t had time to call out the really fun legislation that gets introduced all the time in Congress.
One of my favorites are the bills that make dramatic claims about what they can achieve. And health care is one where [...]