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  Recently we talked a lot about banks and credit card companies using language that their customers couldn't understand, therefore getting mortgages or credit cards with conditions that were not understood by the buyers. This issue has brought on numerous problems, making legislation necessary to protect the consumer.

  Now we are debating something equally, if not more important, our Health Care system. This new legislation is important for everybody. Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, Liberals, Independents, and Liberitarians alike. This legislation is not intended for only the people in Congress or the Senate, but mostly for the American people. People employed by the government have an excellent health care plan, as I understand it, making this, as all legislation, OUR bill.

  Therefore this petition is to challenge congress to practice what they preach and rewrite HR3200 in the current english language spoken and read by Americans (who haven't attended law school) today. It is imperitive, given the current state of this debate, that We The People know what we are fighting over. Being a Liberal, if a republican says to me, "This is what the bill says..." I wouldn't believe them right away and would go to read it for myself. This goes for all parties. The problem with my own interpretation of this bill as that NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE READING.  The people now are resorting to calling eachother stupid and tellling eachother to read the bill, but again, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE READING. 

  One page that is getting a lot of attention is pg. 16. Pg. 16 is section 102 of Title I.It reads:

(a) GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term ‘‘grandfathered health insurance coverage’’ means individual health insurance coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the first day of Y1 if the following conditions are met:

(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—

(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.

  We can stop there. If I were referred to this page and hadn't seen on pg. 14 the Title of which this is section 102 of, I might easily believe that this (1A) meant that private insurers could keep who is currently covered, but may not cover anyone new. That sounds bad.

  Or, after seeing what pg. 16 is section 102 of, I might interpret this to mean that it couldn't accept new enrollees under it's current terms and conditions as of the 1st day of this legislation being enacted. 

  There's two interpretations, which are in all probability, both wrong. This is a big problem. We are splitting in two over what many of us don't understand to begin with.

  For the purpose of meaningful Health Care reform, you, our US Congress, are hereby petitioned by We the People to translate and repost HR3200, in the current language spoken and read by Americans today, before any of it is changed or it comes to a vote in the Senate.