Senator Reid's New Health Care Reform Plan Link

As promised, Senator ReidSenator ReidSenator Reid released the full text of his Health Care Reform Plan in easy to read PDF format. Here is the link to the Senate bill H.R.3590

http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf

Personally, I do not see the need for 2074 pages of anything, (even some of my high-school teachers and college professors were not that mean as to give me this much reading material in such a short period of time to actually get the reading done - so, it really makes me wonder how all of our elected officials are going to pull of this reading assignment; but I wish you all the best of luck!).

What I do know about this 2074 pager that I will be reading all day is this:

I stand by my previous article as far as my personal opinion in this whole health care nightmare, which I sent to Senator Reid and he has still not replied.

This morning I heard snippets about Senator Reid's bill that included words such as, "medicare tax", "medicare being the public option", and other words that lead me to believe he did get and read the material I sent him, or someone over there in Harry Reid office land did - but first I have to dig through 2074 pages to find out for sure. (an email or response letter as usual would be nicer though). I understand how busy he is though, it must take a very long time to write up over 2000 pages of reading material.

So today I begin reading and I hope you do as well. I encourage all to pick up your phones after you read and tell your elected officials how you feel, whether you are for it or against. It is of the utmost importance to exercise our rights and make our voices heard, but our elected representatives can't read our minds, so pick up the phone and call. If you wonder how to find your Rep, try http://www.google.com/ and type the Senator's or Representative's name and you should easily be able to find a link to their senate.gov or house.gov website and find their contact information.

Have a good day everyone! I will post the House Majority Leader's response when I receive it.

Reach

Credibility

Posted By

Adrian Holman | 2 months ago

The elderly will be taxed the most by this new bill. It seems that the Senate wants to ensure that everyone over 65 will die penniless.

Posted By

firesisle | 2 months ago

"The elderly will be taxed the most by this new bill. It seems that the Senate wants to ensure that everyone over 65 will die penniless."

Except them, of course...

Posted By

yuyun | 2 months ago

Good information... thx for sharing

Posted By

Sandra Bonadonna | 2 months ago

I am halfway through reading this and exhausted! My sincere best wishes to all of you in your efforts to tackle this. It truly makes me wonder if our Senators really do "read" the entire thing, because it is a chore - real hard work. If an average person can tackle it though, (and they wrote it), they better! We really need to know what is held in these pages. It does not a person any good to be misinformed and rely solely on his leaders word in search of truth. Educate yourself and exercise your Constitutional rights to have your voice heard. Read this huge 2074 pager and call your Senator and tell him/her if you are for it or against it. Tell them how you feel, but let us the people be informed, even when they over complicate it to try and make us not want to bother - please bother, and read it. Thanks for the support all of you! SB

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