The public option is back.
~WHat?!
False alarm. They had to start with an old version of the House bill. It will be gutted in the Budget Committee and replaced with actual reconciliation bill language.
The thing they have posted is meaningless and worthless unless you want to see insane minds at work and whether ot not *and should be *or, or *and should be *”and,” or whether there ought be a semicolon or a comma.
It is an excercise in making something that should be easily understood as UNunderstandable as they possibly could. It isn’t what the bill actually is. There isn’t even a date on it. They threw it up there as a distraction. The Public Option is mentioned in the index so many times it is ridiculous.
To understand this “thing” they have up there, you have to read all the rules and regs of medicare, (fed,) medicaid, (state,) TriCare, Social Security, etc.
What this says they have chosen to do, is add “paragraphs” to already passed or old legislation that will completely change it into something else altogether.
This is infuriating.