Lem <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> said...
you read my mind md.. /the louisiana purchase is still on too/!!! page 2100 CHAPTER 2---SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS FOR LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AND ALABAMA this time the list grew i think. 3/15/10 12:18 AMBlogger madawaskan <http://www.blogger.com/profile/09259086579871139667> said...
Seriously- I just looked at this from National Review- Foster is saying this- /The Democrats' 2,309-page reconciliation bill was released for public viewing Sunday and will begin the mark-up process in the Budget Committee Monday at 3pm. Contrary to the Democratic pledge to post the reconciliation measure 72 hours before consideration,* the bill posted is a dummy --- or a "shell" as Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) put it --- an early version of the House bill that cleared key committees in 2009,* thus making it eligible for the reconciliation process under budget rules. Once that bill clears the the committee it will be gutted and replaced with the closed-door "fixes" agreed upon by Congressional Democrats, and appended with an unrelated student loan bill./ 3/15/10 12:22 AMBlogger madawaskan <http://www.blogger.com/profile/09259086579871139667> said...
So maybe this doesn't have any of the new agreements in it. Weird-I guess it's a way to get around their promise of posting the actual text of the reconciliation for 72 hours before voting on it. That's why Rep. Ryan is calling it a shell. 3/15/10 12:24 AMBlogger madawaskan <http://www.blogger.com/profile/09259086579871139667> said...
Yep-it's right here on the cover- This division may be cited as the ''America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009''. 3/15/10 12:28 AM <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> Blogger Lem <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> said... holy cow, page 2099 and 2100 is a pork index. what does health care have to do with student loans? DIVISION III---HOUSE COM17 MITTEE ON EDUCATION AND 18 LABOR: INVESTING IN EDU19 CATION 20 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 21 This division may be cited as the ''Student Aid and 22 Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009''. they tacked on some goodies for labor unions. 3/15/10 12:31 AM <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> Blogger Lem <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> said... are you saying this is a bait and switch? don't people go to jail for that? 3/15/10 12:35 AMBlogger madawaskan <http://www.blogger.com/profile/09259086579871139667> said...
Lem I don't know why they posted that. Maybe they will still wait 72 hours after posting the final version of the budget reconciliation. I don't know what the purpose of this Sunday night post was. ****** At the very least they are disorganized. Glad I only wasted a couple of minutes on it. If it had been an unsearchable document I might have actually tried to read the stupid thing. I'm off- have to wake up at 5:00 a.m. 3/15/10 12:55 AM <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> Blogger Lem <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> said... thanks for the heads up. 3/15/10 12:59 AM <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> Blogger Lem <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03569712564034666751> said... page 29 SEC. 123. HEALTH BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. the road to a death panel seems to be via rationed care. /(a) ESTABLISHMENT.--- (1) IN GENERAL.---There is established a private-public advisory committee which shall be a panel of medical and other experts to be known as the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced, and premium plans/. jumping ahead.. /(1) RECOMMENDATIONS ON BENEFIT STANDARDS.---The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this subtitle referred to as the ''Secretary'') benefit standards (as defined in paragraph (4)), and periodic updates to such standards. In developing such recommendations, the Committee shall take into account innovation in health care and consider how such standards could reduce health disparities/. skipping down.. / BENEFIT STANDARDS DEFINED.---In this subtitle, the term ''benefit standards'' means standards respecting--- (A) the essential benefits package described in section 122, including categories of covered treatments, items and services within benefit classes, and cost-sharing; and (B) the cost-sharing levels for enhanced plans and premium plans (as provided under section 203(c)) consistent with paragraph (5). (5) LEVELS OF COST-SHARING FOR ENHANCED AND PREMIUM PLANS.--- (A) ENHANCED PLAN.---The level of cost-sharing for enhanced plans shall be designed so that such plans have benefits that are actuarially equivalent to approximately 85 percent of the actuarial value of the benefits provided under the reference benefits package described in section 122(c)(3)(B). (B) PREMIUM PLAN.---The level of cost sharing for premium plans shall be designed so that such plans have benefits that are actuarially equivalent to approximately 95 percent of the actuarial value of the benefits provided under the reference benefits package described in section 122(c)(3)(B)/. 3/15/10 6:03 AM jaed <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03328666344764784829> said... /I don't know what the purpose of this Sunday night post was./Presumably it's to confuse people. By the time the newsies realize the import of the term "shell bill", they'll already have convinced everyone that the honest, doughty Congress put the actual bill up.
(Side note: as far as I can tell from the description of "premium", this means it will be illegal to purchase insurance that actually covers everything. If you have a costly disease or injury, you're still going to be paying five percent, which means you're still going to go bankrupt. Yay, Congress. Sigh.)
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