Health Reform Made Complicated (And It Is)

Want a quick summary of the 564 amendments offered to the Senate Finance Committee to 'fix' the Baucus bill?

Timothy Noah and Chris Wilson of Slate.com have done just that. The actual amendments are all described on the Senate Finance Committee's Web site. Unfortunately, they're scattered among six PDF files, and navigating them is a nightmare.

Slate's Chris Wilson assembled all these amendments into a single spreadsheet that can be sorted according to sponsor, party, budgetary offset, and whether the amendment in question addresses insurance coverage, reform of "delivery systems," or financing. (Note: You may need to log into Gmail to view the sortable spreadsheet. A low-fi version is also available.)

Hope you have is much fun with this as I did!