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Honeycombe8

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27. Congress never reads entire bills. It's full of legalese and not understandable...
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 05:30 PM
Nov 2012

unless you're an expert in that area of law, and also, laws frequently refer to OTHER laws, so you'd have to know about those, too.

So...Congress people have staffers who read things (in part, I'm sure), and digest and summarize them for the Congress people. There are other services, I THINK, that do this sort of thing. And the guys who sponsored the bill will give a synopsis of what is in the bill.

Having said all that, it is possible for something to be in a bill that most Congress people don't know about. Even if Congress people read the entire bill, they probably wouldn't catch it, anyway. Bills are very lengthy and written in legalese, as I said.

This is the accepted way of doing things in Congress...has been for many many years.

It has no special provisions for skeptics jberryhill Nov 2012 #1
Perfect. Hoyt Nov 2012 #3
There are good resources but they need to read. Kaiser Family Foundation and AARP's website, SoapLovah Nov 2012 #2
HHS perspective: patrice Nov 2012 #4
Thanks for the wealth of info Patrice. Horse with no Name Nov 2012 #14
You are welcome. I probably have more, stuff such as from The Robert Woods Johnson patrice Nov 2012 #15
Brookings: patrice Nov 2012 #5
Still looking for the best (shortest) one I had. patrice Nov 2012 #6
List I found on Reddit: patrice Nov 2012 #7
You can corelate that Reddit piece against this HHS detailed summary overview: patrice Nov 2012 #8
10 immediate Affordable Care Act benefits: patrice Nov 2012 #9
ACA timeline from .gov patrice Nov 2012 #10
The Patient Protection part of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act: patrice Nov 2012 #11
My favorite blogger on this subject: patrice Nov 2012 #12
How much does Obamacare cost? nt mrf901 Nov 2012 #13
Like any insurance, that depends upon what kind of coverage you need and what insurance patrice Nov 2012 #16
I guess one of the things that will happen, when the insurance exchanges open, will be that if patrice Nov 2012 #17
Excuse my manners, welcome mrf901! patrice Nov 2012 #18
I don't see what the state's part of this is ... mrf901 Nov 2012 #19
Unless they refuse to, the states design their own exchanges, which, in turn, will affect patrice Nov 2012 #20
just copy Ebay mrf901 Nov 2012 #21
Individual states will make their choices, maybe some will do something like that. The authority patrice Nov 2012 #23
Obamacare is not an ins. "plan" so you can't buy it. It's a set of rules & regs... Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #25
Short Answer: Read the Law. Avalux Nov 2012 #22
2700 pages, Pelosi didn't read mrf901 Nov 2012 #24
What is your point? Tennessee Gal Nov 2012 #26
see post #13 .nt mrf901 Nov 2012 #28
Congress never reads entire bills. It's full of legalese and not understandable... Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #27
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