The Czar of Muscovy over at the Gormogons is reading the whole of HR-3200. He’s 100 pages in. It makes for good reading. For instance:

The Czar laughed at this one: Sec 133 (a) (2) Plain language requirement: that plan information be written in plain language; or “language that the intended audience, including individuals with limited English proficiency, can readily understand and use because that language is clean, concise, well-organized, and follows other best practices of plain language writing.” Too bad that wasn’t the case when they wrote this bill.
43 pages in, the Czar muttered “Holy cow. Still nothing but definitions of terms and descriptions of people who will have Very Important and Necessary Jobs to do once this is enacted. This is reading more like an operations manual for an insurance company, not a bill.” Take note of that. It becomes important later.
Sec 142 (e) “The Commissioner shall provide for the development of standards for the definitions of terms used in health insurance coverage, including insurance-related terms.” Yikes. The Commissioner needs to develop standards for health insurance related terms? What’s wrong with the ones we use today? Oh, that’s right: they don’t spend taxpayer money on frivolous jobs.
The Czar began to notice that a lot of the sections, like 2714 and 2754, purport to discuss ensuring lower premiums. But when he read it, he found nothing that described specifics. Instead, there were blanket statements that it will be someone’s responsibility to find a way to lower premiums. The Czar cannot imagine this in the real, corporate world. “My proposal is to save to you money.” How? “Hire me first, and then I’ll come up with something.”