CSPAN-2 Live coverage on Health Care Debate

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With all the coverage & information available what impresses me is the lack of a real debate & the excessive speech-making done by the members of the US Senate. One side gets up & makes speeches & then the other side gets up & makes speeches. No debate at all! There are enough really scary red flags which suggest that this bill is something that the US can't afford (trillions not billions). The amount of shell games like the class act (ponzi scheme like SS). 2074 pages of shell games at ~ 2 billion $$ per page. None of it will make health care cheaper. Why not scrap it all & start it over with transparency? They will not get the point until we vote them all out!

HR 3962 is the bill now being debated in the Senate. I made a concordance and for amusement (it's about 93 meg of HTML) I found interesting counts for some of the keywords in the bill:

penal            170

fine               10

tort                   1

admin            407

subchapter       36

subclause       170

subparagraph 1036

subsection     1922

program         1115

jail                     1

pay                 908

may               1031

must                   4

can                    22

cannot                 3

will                  144

audit                 37
authorize          407

medicare          455

medicaid          328

abortion             21

There are 11,114 words in the document & 361,917 tokens. You can make up your own judgement about the bill almost without reading it. zzzz   I find the lack of tort discussion quite revealing. The bill references itself & other bills many many times.

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