Jim Grizzell, MBA, MA, MCHES®, ACSM-EP-C, FACHA
Master Certified Health Education Specialist #2670
ACSM Exercise Physiologist Certified #17
45 years of health education/promotion experience
Mission
Help professionals, individuals and groups use evidence-based, cost-effective health promotion and wellness programs to improve living, learning, working and playing conditions.
Values
Passion – Compassion
Health Reform: Links to Summaries, Congressional Bills and Cost/Budget Evaluations
Concise HR 3200 Summary (by Congressional Research Service (CRS), html, to the point with only 25 sentences,13 short paragraphs, 660 words, 1 1/2 pages; 9-minute text-to-speech software version click here > audio/mp3)
HR 3200 Summary (pdf, by CRS, 6 pages, 6 sections with bullet point list; 12-minute > audio/mp3)
HR 3200 (3 formats)
Government Print Office (GPO) (pdf, 1,017 pages with line #s, 14 pt font, 165 words/pg)
Library of Congress (LOC) Printer Friendly (pdf, 261 pages, 10 pt font)
Congressional Research Service (CRS) (html, with permalinks and comment boxes)
Legislative Process
Adult Learner – Tying It All Together: Learn about the Legislative Process (to listen to a 17-minute text to speech software version click here > audio/mp3)
Adolescent Learner – How a Bill Becomes Law (audio version in above mp3 file)
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Health Insurance Reform and the 111th Congress (review of 17 bills) by Congressional Research Office (pdf, 24 pages; or listen to 70-minute audio/mp3)
Concise HR 3200 Summary (pdf, 1 1/2 pages, 13 brief paragraphs, 660 words; 9-minute audio/mp3)
HR 3200 Summary (pdf, 6 pages, 6 sections with bullet point list; 12-minute audio/mp3)
HR 3200 Summary with point & click links to CRS HR 3200 (pdf, 6 pages, same as above but with point and click permalinks that will take you at least 1 line of the subject text in the )
US House of Representative HR 3200 Committees
House Committee on Education and Labor HR 3200 Web Page
House Committee on Energy and Commerce HR 3200 Web Page
House Committee on Ways and Means HR 3200 Web Page
Summaries by Division
District-by-District Benefit of HR 3200 (1-page pdf summaries, 1 for each district in the US)
Links below are from lower left corner of page – “Spotlight)”
HELP Committee votes to report Affordable Health Choices Act to the Senate
Affordable Health Choices Act (pdf)
Additional Chairman’s mark on coverage
Letter from Secretary Sebelius to Chairman Kennedy
Congressional Budget Office
Preliminary Analysis of HR 3200 (pdf)
The Budgetary Effects of Expanding Governmental Support for Preventive Care and Wellness Services (html, pdf and blog)
The Long Term Budget Outlook (July 16, 2–9): “The federal budget is on an unsustainable path, primarily because of the rising cost of health care.”
Joint Committee on Taxation
ESTIMATED BUDGET EFFECTS OF THE CHAIRMAN’S MARK, AS MODIFIED, OF Fiscal Years 2009 – 2019 [Millions of Dollars] THE “AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT TAX ACT OF 2009,” (pdf)
Find What You Want to Learn with Point and Click from HR 3200 a Summary or Organization Chart
Easy Reading HR 3200 and Health Reform (point and click from organization chart and CRS summary)