Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have announced the new House healthcare reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962), with any more pomp and circumstance. It was certainly more impressive than the Senate’s mouse-like rollout, apparently intended to avoid rubbing salt in the Baucus “bipartisanship” wound.

HR 3962 is definitely a major milestone in attempting to reform our broken system-less healthcare; it’s historic, certainly. But no, it’s not the best our legislators could do. Learn the 8 things you should know, good and bad, about the bill here.       

If you want to read a 4-page summary of the bill, get it here. If you are really ambitious and want to read the entire 1,990 pages, download the bill here. For further exploration, head to the Committee on Education and Labor’s HR 3962 site.  

Want to know how this bill compares to others in the legislative pipeline? See Kaiser Family Foundation’s (no relation to Kaiser Permanente) Side-By-Side Comparison Tool. This easy to use, regularly updated tool lets you select which bills to compare, and what features to compare them on.  Much better than wading through legalese!             blogsurfer.us