Now You Can HEAR What's in the Proposed Health Care Reform Legislation in Congress!

Now You Can HEAR What's in the Proposed Health Care Reform Legislation in Congress

New Web Site Features Voice Actors Reading the Bill So Americans Can Decide for Themselves

Many voters have been questioning whether their Congressional representatives have read the entire health care reform bill, HR3200. Now, they don't have to - they can listen to it.

A group of voice actors has not only read the bill, but recorded it, too - all 1,018 pages of it - and made the legislation available as an audio book, online at http://www.hearthebill.org .

"Health care reform is an issue that affects everyone, but it's been difficult for many people to cut through the spin of various interests and learn directly what's in the legislation," said Kathleen Keesling, who along with co-founder Diane Havens, had conceived the idea of producing an audio version of the proposal. "Now there is a place where everyone can go to read and listen to the bill, educate themselves, ask the right questions for clarification - and then make their own determination about whether to support it." Using the site is free. In all, over 80 voice actors volunteered to read sections of the legislation.

The HR3200 bill is fully downloadable and indexed like an audio book, allowing users to choose which parts they want to hear at their own convenience. It also provides the sight-impaired with the opportunity to hear the wording of the bill that they otherwise would not have had. Others can read along with the audio, and should join the mailing list to receive updates, as the audio will be modified whenever the bill is amended to ensure that it remains current.

probably have not read it themselves.

I bet that number is somewhere around 0.1%

cared that their Congresscritters didn't read the Patriot Act before IT was signed into law?