Health legislation having passed, it’s difficult to ascertain its specific effects. Winners could include college students. But this can only occur if universities act to fulfill their fiduciary obligations and avoid suspect school health plan practices benefiting the school over the student.

The reform creates several important mandates to improve healthcare access. Statewide exchanges will offer products that have no pre-existing condition exclusions, eliminate lifetime caps on services...

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[from Consumer Reports Health Blog, as well as the Consumerist...]

Hi all.

On the 14th, the House released the current draft of the House's Health Reform Bill.  It's not that long, at only (ahem) 1,018 pages.  If you want to read the full version, you can find it here.  Have fun loading a 1,018 page pdf...

Of course, if you want to get the cliff's notes for the bill, that's much easier.  There's a one page summary (pdf) explaining the public option (view it here).  There are other fact sheets or...
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Confused about the healthcare reforms and what's really being proposed?  You're not alone.

Ezra Klein of The Washington Post wrote a great article explaining some of the health care reforms being bandied about in Congress.  Most importantly, he breaks down the propaganda to explain, in simple terms, what single payer healthcare is and why it is not(!) actually socialized healthcare. 

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