Long Health Care Bill is Long (Really, Really, Really Long)
HR 3590, the Senate version of the congressional health care bill drafted by Harry Reid, is now available online. A word of warning for those who want to read it: it is immense. In fact, it eclipses the 2,000 page mark, longer even than the House version of the bill (1,990 pages). Highlights include a public option which states can opt out of–although details on that appeared to be sparse on a very preliminary skim-through, Medicare and Medicaid cuts to pay for the thing, a provision preventing illegal immigrants from receiving benefits, a mandate for all Americans to purchase insurance, and of course, tax increases of all kinds (examples are a 0.5% increase in Medicare taxes to single people making $200,000/yr or more and couples making $250,000/yr or more, and taxes on cosmetic procedures). Unnecessarily long winded details here.
P.S. WARNING: The link is the actual bill. Loading takes a pretty long time for a .pdf file, probably because of its gargantuan length.
