Healthcare bills: Side-by-side analysis

by Mark Silva

As we're preparing for the House's debates this weekend -- and expected action Sunday -- on sweeping heatlhcare legsilation, our friends at ProPublica have assembled a ready-friendly way of navigating through the changes that the House leadership proposes to the Senate-passed bill.

See the side-by-side look at the healthcare bills here.

It offers more than a summary of changes, with the proposed new language included. Changes -- either subtractions or additons to the Senate bill -- are color-coded for easy tracking. And there is a previous change/next change button for navigation.

So far, ProPublica says, its comparison has revealed "new revisions to the laws governing student loans and changes to the law governing tax credits for biofuels.'' Their investigative forces are "still digging for more. Maybe we can help them.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest It is led by Paul Steiger, aformer managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Stephen Engelberg, a former managing editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and former investigative editor of The New York Times,

ProPublica is headquartered in Manhattan.

Go take a look at the healthcare changes, and come back and tell us what you thiink. Tell them The Swamp sent you. And thank them for their effort, as we are.