How are legislative procedures for health care legislation any different from procedures for other legislation?

There are complaints here every day about how Congress is supposedly "keeping secrets" about the health care legislation that is currently making its way through the House and Senate.





I'm just wondering: Will one of you who believes this please explain how the procedures in committee(s) and on the House or Senate floor differ from the procedures used for any other piece of legislation?





Have the rules been changed specifically for health care legislation. If so, how? Where?





If the rules have not been changed, why the complaints?





Please no general statements reiterating the belief that things are somehow more secret this time. I want to know exactly what procedures are different from what they used to be. You might consider citing House or Senate rules in your answer.





Thanks.|||The complaints are coming from the 30% of Americans that don't want any health care bill to pass as long as democrats are in power. In truth there are secrets kept about every bill, not just this one. Both sides are doing it. The legislation is written in private and then given only a token amount of time to be read.





But then again it is their job to get an understanding of the legislation and pass it if it is OK as quickly as feasible. If they aren't able to do it, then they should step aside in the next election.|||One major difference: they actually VOTED for something yesterday which is not actually written on paper. It is "hypothetical"...