10 Things You Didn't Know Were in the Health Bill

Originally at Miller-McCune.com
March 29, 2010 -- The 2,000-page health care bill that became law last week is packed with major reforms probably well known (in concept if not in detail) by anyone who has channel-surfed through the nightly news over the past year. There’s an individual mandate, a system of exchanges, new government subsidies and a ban on some of the worst practices of the insurance industry.
 

Let’s say the small print on the big stuff accounts for about 1,500 pages, give or take a ream. What’s in the rest? Some random, weird and interesting solutions to problems you may or may not have known you had, some with dubious connection to health care at best. As a public service, we explain some of them here.
 

The Idea Lobby lists these provisions without endorsement or critique (although cobbling them all together on a single page does make the aggregate look a little scatterbrained). But, rest assured, someone in the know championed hard for each one: the Center for Science in the Public Interest, National Indian Health Board, the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term C

For the full explanation of each and who was behind it see the full article at Miller-McCune.com

 

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