Can the health care bill be split and sections voted on seperately?
CM: This is possible. Floor votes will most likely be on sections of the bills, not the bills in their entirety. She made the point that most legislation is unwieldy in language and is nearly unreadable for most people, would like to see simplification of legislative language so that citizens could read legislation, and help keep loopholes out. (General applause from all factions. She then got off on a tangent: CM: if we changed our health care system to prevention of chronic conditions such as diabetes, we could change the deficit. Interesting. I’ll have to run down average costs of preventable conditions and see if this is true. Empirically, it makes sense–less diabetes, less spent on health care–but I wonder about the dramatics. Statement: Health insurance industry is lobbying against health care reform, while airing ads supporting it. CM: Said the insurers are trying to work around health care reform. Does not oppose their lobbying. Told attendees to pay close attention to who is
