Response to 8/04 Intelligencer Ad

On Tuesday, Aug 4th, the Intelligencer ran a full page ad entitled "National Healthcare at a Glance, not all 1,017 pages" providing page references to national health care information. No bill number was referenced but it seems to refer to HR 3200 which is 1,018 pages. A website on that bill responds to many of the statements in the ad, Healthcare Reform Myths, www.healthcareformmyths.org, with footnotes for further information.

As an example, the ad references "page 58: every person will be issued a National ID Health Card."

Health care myths provides this clarification:

Myth says this is on page 58 of HR 3200. Anyone currently covered under a health insurance plan has an insurance card. It assumes that the government issues the card, when in fact, the INSURER issues the card, just as they do now. The actual text of page 58 mentions nothing of the sort.

Note that due to the length of the bill the pdf for it can take some time to load.