I took Paul Ryan’s advice. I usually don’t do that and regretted it almost immediately. And this is my story.
To much ado, Speaker Ryan introduced the American Health Care Act to the country.
The American Health Care Act is a plan to drive down costs, encourage competition, and give every American access to quality, affordable health insurance.
Or at least so he said. Furthermore this bill was available online at readthebill.gop
So here is what I found.
First when you type that into the URL or address bar, it immediately redirects you to https://housegop.leadpages.co/healthcare/. This is not at all a bad thing. It allows Republicans to easy direct you to the bill of interest at the time. Of course there can only be one bill as it is now. But if there are multiple bills they could always let you chose which bill you would like to see.
Second the bill is basically unreadable for normal people. Here is an example.
(d) UPDATING ALLOWABLE HOME EQUITY LIMITS
IN MEDICAID.
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1917(f)(1) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396p(f)(1)) is
amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sub-
paragraphs (B) and (C)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
paragraph (B)’’;
(B) by striking subparagraph (B);
(C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as
subparagraph (B); and
(D) in subparagraph (B), as so redesig-
nated, by striking ‘‘dollar amounts specified in
this paragraph’’ and inserting ‘‘dollar amount
specified in subparagraph (A)’’.
It seems to remove 2 subparagraphs from an existing law. And you can actually find that law on the internet with a bit of searching. So now that you are finally in the right place remove subparagraphs B & C. Then put B back. And strike it out again. (Whoever drafted the law must have found B especially bad as it was struck twice.) The change C’s name to B. Put the new B back and modify it.
I’m not sure what the purpose it in doing it at such length and what it actually did. Now that was half a page or so. Imagine having to do this for 50 or 60 pages.
Is there an English translation available for normal readers?