Baucus health care bill: 1502 pages

By: Charlie Spiering
Online Community Manager
10/20/09 3:12 PM EDT

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., right, talks with committee member Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., on Capitol Hill in Washington during the markup of health care legislation.

Not for the faint of heart. For any of our interested readers we have posted the full text of the 1502 page Baucus health care bill that passed out of the Senate Finance Commitee last week. Subject to change without notice. . .

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ladybug

Oct 20, 2009

Wayne Ostrander has a website breakitapart.ning.com ready to help people assess the health care bill when it came out. He described the process as having interested people check out pages for a bill, read them, and then post an analysis of those pages for others to read.

Could be an interesting way to tackle these forest-killer bills.

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Baucus health care bill: 1502 pages

By: Charlie Spiering
Online Community Manager
10/20/09 3:12 PM EDT