Finance Committee bill has been filed

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Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee's health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages, according to a Senate Republican leadership source. It's still not up yet on the Finance Committee website or Thomas.gov. We'll post a link as soon as we get one.

UPDATED:

Read (PDF) the entire 1,502 page Finance bill.

Read (PDF) a document outlining the concerns of Sens. Kerry, Schumer, Menendez, Stabenow and Rockefeller that the tax on high-end plans will hit plans that are not overly generous.

Read (PDF) Sen. Rockefeller's expanded views on reform.

UPDATE 2:  The Senate Finance Committee filed its sweeping health care reform bill Monday and its release served largely to highlight the divisions among Democrats over the direction of reform.

The massive, 1,500 page bill is expected to serve as the backbone for Democratic reform efforts going forward and five senators expressed concerns about one of its main provisions, a 40 percent tax on high-end insurance plans.

The tax is designed to pay for reform and lower costs by making the so-called Cadillac plans less attractive for insurers to offer. Under the bill, a plan that costs an individual more than $8,000 and a family more than $21,000 annually would be subject to the tax.

Politico

1500 pages of BS that not one senator will read or understand.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

It's a pile irreconciliable contradictions.

If you think the Baucus plan was stalled you ain't seen nothing yet.