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Read all 2,074 pages of the Senate bill

By Eric Zimmermann and Jeffrey Young - 11/18/09 07:16 PM ET

The Senate healthcare bill Harry Reid revealed today spans 2,074 pages, marginally longer than the House bill's 1,990 pages.

Read the whole bill by clicking here. Senate Democrats have also released a short summary of the bill, along with a list of reforms that would go into effect the first year after enactment.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that it will cost $849 billion over ten years, will reduce the deficit by $127 billion and would cover 31 million Americans.

Reid presented the bill to his caucus at a 5pm meeting. Democrats are pleased that the legislation comes in under the $900 billion maximum Obama has mentioned and reduces the deficit.

Republicans, meanwhile, slammed the bill as a costly "experiment."

“While Americans have been clear about their opposition to thousand-page bills for new government programs, it’s now abundantly clear that Democrats haven’t been listening," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after the bill was released "This is yet another trillion-dollar experiment, but it is not what Americans bargained for."

Democrats hope to open debate on the bill as early as Friday, but GOP demands that the entire bill be read aloud could delay that until next week.

Source:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/68487-read-all-2074-pages-of-the-senate-bill

Comments (10)

Kill the bill. Both of us are retired and cannot afford all of these "taxes" that are in the plan. We get along very well with Medicaid and Tricare.BY Granny Tillberg on 11/18/2009 at 22:20
At last! While I favor a single-payer system, I consider it a significant victory that in the first year after passage, the bill provides for affordable coverage for those who have suffered inexecusable neglect by our "system" because they have a pre-existing condition. Our "system" has been nothing less than a long battle between the well against the ill. As the summary states in a list of first-year reforms, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will provide $5 billion in immediate federal support for a new program to provide affordable coverage to uninsured Americans with preexistingcond itions."BY Smilinjack on 11/18/2009 at 22:22
How do we know what the real dollar cost will be for each American citizen? It's way too early to get happy. With the House Bill, the Government Insurance option would cost $397 per month per family member. The subsidy would cover less than half of that amount for someone who earns around $45,000 a year. Also, is there a penalty for those who don't buy health insurance? Hopefully we'll know more after the bill is interpreted and explained to the country.BY We-R-Sheep on 11/18/2009 at 22:45
Granny, I'm personally subsidizing your medicaid and tricare, so how about you move beyond the me-me-me to the we and let the taxpayers provide a little help to get health care to someone besides you?BY mojofrazzle on 11/19/2009 at 00:51
with pre-exiting being replace by the power of the health czar and the panel and the money it will cost the working class in job loss and medicare . this just a bill that lets then tell us who live or dies . im sick that i voted for one of these guys that going destroy the county , this bill is making me sick and jail time if we don't like this is not the usa and three week obama apoints the new head of HHS they cut pre care for breast caner people just think!!!! 40 million and no new doctors in harford you already wait 3 months to see a doctorBY stingray on 11/19/2009 at 03:39
Let me read the bill first. Then I can comment better.BY StoicEmperor on 11/19/2009 at 05:45
I can not believe that we are on the verge of a complete takeover of a government health care system. Maybe some of these government politicians should read Brave New World, 1984, or Animal Farm. I can not think of one government program that understated the financial impact on the American people. I agree that our health care system needs improvement, however, we can fix this without the government intruding with this massive system.BY Norman Jensen on 11/19/2009 at 11:35
I will support it if both the House, Senate and other people in government will get off of their policy and adopt this one- anyone? Bueller, Bueller?BY AgainstdaBill on 11/19/2009 at 13:30
Have tried to open you link to the whole bill (http://thehill.com/images/stories/whitepapers/pdf/senatebill.pdf), and all I get is 2.5MB of blankiness. I'm using Safari on a Mac. Anyone else have this problem?BY David Swink on 11/19/2009 at 17:40
We-r-sheep - If you think you are subsidizing Granny wait until you are subsidizing Granny, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Lets see Medicare was supposed to be an insurance program which was self funded but where did the money go? Oh to increased govt spending. Where do you think any new taxes will go - to medical coverage that is a laugh. In fifty years, if it can even get that far, this government medical system will be more bankrupt then Medicare. Don't fool yourself. You are sheep if you believe the government is capable of running anything.BY Networker on 11/20/2009 at 05:09

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