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Archive for November 19th, 2009

Long Health Care Bill is Long (Really, Really, Really Long)

Posted by Joe Bonica on November 19, 2009

HR 3590, the Senate version of the congressional health care bill drafted by Harry Reid, is now available online. A word of warning for those who want to read it: it is immense. In fact, it eclipses the 2,000 page mark, longer even than the House version of the bill (1,990 pages). Highlights include a public option which states can opt out of–although details on that appeared to be sparse on a very preliminary skim-through, Medicare and Medicaid cuts to pay for the thing, a provision preventing illegal immigrants from receiving benefits, a mandate for all Americans to purchase insurance, and of course, tax increases of all kinds (examples are a 0.5% increase in Medicare taxes to single people making $200,000/yr or more and couples making $250,000/yr or more, and taxes on cosmetic procedures). Unnecessarily long winded details here.

P.S. WARNING: The link is the actual bill. Loading takes a pretty long time for a .pdf file, probably because of its gargantuan length.

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S.A. endorses release of SAFC student group funding info.

Posted by jdfarragut on November 19, 2009

Obviously having read my post from earlier this week (just kidding…), the Student Assembly just passed a resolution which will hopefully lead to we students being able to see how the SAFC distributes funding (they fund 350 of the smaller groups on campus, which comes out to 37% of the student activity fee–about $75).  Resolution 28 is a sense of body resolution, so it’s not binding, but there was serious talk about drafting a resolution that would change the bylaws.  So far so good on this issue S.A.

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