Health Reform: An Online Guide (Copious links to info about the health care reform bill via Slate)

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great resource ~ pinto

http://www.slate.com/id/2220222/

Health Reform: An Online Guide
Links to everything you might conceivably want to know about the health care reform bill.
By Timothy Noah

Updated Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at 1:05 PM ET

The legislative effort to reform America's health care system is a story that is unfolding online. Newspapers are playing catch-up, sometimes with their own Web sites. What follows is Slate's guide to the best online information sources for anyone who wants to follow this story as it happens. Because valuable new links are appearing on an almost-hourly basis, I add to and update this portal with some frequency.

Comparison Charts of House, Senate, and White House Bills/Proposals:

The House committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce created a comparison chart on Dec. 29, after versions of the bill had cleared both the House and the Senate.

The Kaiser Family Foundation has a superbly detailed chart, updated Jan. 4, comparing the House and Senate bills as passed. You can also create your own comparison chart, choosing to highlight various topics as treated in various proposals. Kaiser also has a tool for calculating health care subsidies under the House- and Senate-passed bills. Katharine Seelye of the New York Times explains how to use it here.

The Wall Street Journal's chart, updated Dec. 24, includes the House- and Senate-passed bills.

The Committee For A Responsible Budget has a chart that focuses on costs, updated Dec. 21, which means it covers the House-passed bill and Sen. Harry Reid's "manager's amendment."

The New York Times's chart was updated on Dec. 23, which means it, too, covers the House-passed bill and the Senate manager's amendment.

The Washington Post's chart is prettier and more interactive than the Times chart, updated Dec. 24, which means it, too, covers the House-passed bill and the Senate manager's amendment.

The Commonwealth Fund's chart is even more interactive and fairly detailed, but because it's dated Nov. 18 it covers the House-passed bill but not the final version of the Senate bill. A separate chart that details the bills' insurance provisions has the same problem.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2220222/

Timothy Noah is a senior writer at Slate.

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1. Recommend

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2. K and R

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[pinto]

3. Kick for the resource links

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[TexasObserver]

4. TMI in the OP ... apparently.

Sometimes I marvel at the threads that get discussed, and those that don't.

The more useful information an OP contains, the less participation it has.

It's just too bad you couldn't work Sarah Palin or the word "fucktard" into the OP. Then we would have hundreds of posts about it.

Thanks for trying, though. Health care is the major issue facing the nation and the party right now, and it's good to have quality info about it.