{"id":1465,"date":"2009-10-20T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2009-10-20T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T19:47:47","slug":"the-baucus-bill-is-filed-all-1502-pages-of-it-check-with-your-doctor-before-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1465\/the-baucus-bill-is-filed-all-1502-pages-of-it-check-with-your-doctor-before-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baucus Bill Gets Filed, All 1,502 Pages of It.  Check With Your Doctor Before Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baucus Bill, passed by the Senate Finance Committee last week, has been written and filed&#8230; all 1,502 pages of it.\u00a0 The public posting of the bill\u00a0is, of course, after the Committee passed it without reading it. \u00a0After the absolute certainty that it isn&#8217;t going to be the bill on which the entire Senate votes.<\/p>\n<p>You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.senate.gov\/press\/Bpress\/2009press\/prb101909.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but we wouldn\u2019t recommend wasting your time.\u00a0 Harry Reid and other members of &#8220;the most open and transparent Congress in history&#8221; are presently working <em>behind closed doors<\/em> with senior aides of &#8220;the most open and transparent Administration in history&#8221; to draft yet another version of ObamaCare that will ultimately be considered by the full Senate.\u00a0\u00a0 News reports indicate that a floor debate on the new, secret &#8220;reform&#8221; legislation could begin as early as next week.\u00a0 But that all depends on whether the White House and Senate negotiators are able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-2277359~Analysis__Courting_doctors_in_health_care_battle.html\" target=\"_blank\">buy off the docs<\/a> and finish their other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=ao9dG2a.w8es\" target=\"_blank\">back-room wheelings and dealings<\/a> by week\u2019s end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=34014\" target=\"_blank\">promise<\/a> to air all health care reform negotiations on C-SPAN?<\/p>\n<p>For all you policy junkies out there who just can\u2019t resist, we must warn you that reading the Baucus Bill can cause severe anxiety, eye strain, sudden spikes in blood pressure, heart palpitations and chronic disgust in your government.\u00a0 If you decide to proceed, it\u2019s best you read it online rather than printing it off and carrying it over to that comfy Lazy Boy.\u00a0 It\u2019s still unclear whether hernia operations will be included on the final list of government-approved procedures covered by what is likely to be your new government-approved insurance plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baucus Bill, passed by the Senate Finance Committee last week, has been written and filed&#8230; all 1,502 pages of it.\u00a0 The public posting of the bill\u00a0is, of course, after the Committee passed it without reading it. \u00a0After the absolute certainty that it isn&#8217;t going to be the bill on which the entire Senate votes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,12,230,24,306],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-max-baucus","tag-obama","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}