This is not a finalized version of HB 3200 -- the nationalized health care bill -- but it will get you started on what everyone is talking about ... all 1,017 pages. The final version is not expected to be posted online for weeks.
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... to get a good feel for the bill without reading all 1,000+ pages, check out this abridged version that a friend sent over. It hits the highlights in 10 pages.
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No wonder no one in Congress wants to read this garbage. It is mindbloggling to say the least. Trash it and don't start all over. It is too much like the tax laws, only a lawyer could begin to understand all the legalese thrown in. Why couldn't it be written so a lay person could understand what the heck they are doing. Well, maybe I have the answer, they don't want us to know what the heck they are doing. If we did, the townhall meetings would be a lot more rowdy then they have been. God save us from our government.
You're actually complaining that a law is written in legalese? Laws have to been written using very carefully crafted language to avoid them from being implemented in way that was not the intent of the legislative body when a bill is passed.
Michael -
while I understand that the stated intent of legalese is to make legal language very exact, this bill does not achieve that. I've been plowing my way through and it IS NOT written for exactness. It could easily be more exact AND more readable at the same time. I have seen legal writing that is tediously written and a bugger to plow through, but in the end is very specific. HB 3200 has many areas that are vague or leave details to the individual or department that will eventually decide those details. The areas where is IS exact are more convoluted than most legal writing. This train wreck could have been written in half the pages and with twice the "exactness" and clarity. But then, we would all know what was in it and the politicians couldn't hide behind their inaccurate sound-bytes.
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