What’s In the National Health Care Bill?

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE! PLEASE READ AND PASS TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE!

The healthcare bill that Congress seems intent on passing is far worse and Orwellian than anything you might have imagined. I am not trying to be histrionic, the way people often get over just about anything. This is life-altering and, unlike most pieces of bad legislation, we will never be able to go back. A highly regarded doctor has taken the time to read the 1000+ page bill, something I don’t think a single politician has bothered to do. (Yesterday, John Conyers, a big proponent, actually said this: “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”)

This doctor has done the work so we, as citizens, don’t have to all sit down and read the entire thing ourselves. What he found is frightening in the extreme.

The citings below are from the proposed house version of the healthcare bill. There is a link below to determine who your representatives are in the US House and US Senate. Please take a few minutes in the next day or so and call them to express your displeasure with this bill. Also, please forward this to your friends and ask them to do the same.

* Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the govt option!

* Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!

* Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!

* Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

* Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

* Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

* Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

* Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

* Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

* Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

* Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services;

translation: illegal aliens

* Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

* Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

* Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

* Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

* Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.

* Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

* Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll BR * Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll

* Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

* Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes

(Americans will pay for them).

* Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

* Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.”

* Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”

* Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)

* Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc. BTW, they do this to an extent now.

* Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.

* Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.

* Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!

* Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.

* Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.

* Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!

* Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.

* Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.

* Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

* Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.

* Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).

* Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.

* Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.

* Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.

* Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

* Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process).

* Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.

* Page 425: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?

* Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.

* Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.

* Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.

* Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

* Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

Here’s how to figure out how to reach your representative.

http://www.capwiz.com/nra/dbq/officials/

In Westchester County,NY.

For those of you in NY you will also find these sites helpful:

http://johnhall.house.gov/

http://schumer.senate.gov/

http://gillibrand.senate.gov/

Alan Keyes Comments on Obamination

National Health Care = VA Health Care

As a member of the home schooling community, I draw a lot of support from online groups where I gain inspiration and encouragement. The following letter is a recent post from  one of these online support groups.  Please take a moment to read it.  And then ask yourself, Do you really want the Feds taking charge of your health care when you or a loved on is ill????

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Dear All,

The following is a letter about the experience we had yesterday that I wrote to our legislators. Please read and write yours to vote NO. Any hospital facility you have been to is better than what the government currently provides.

Blessings,
Kristine Farley
Bonney Lake, WA

The government already runs the VA hospitals and they are in such a shameful situation. Can the government do better? I sincerely doubt it.

Yesterday I spent 13 hours at the Seattle VA Hospital with an older family member and her husband, who is a highly awarded veteran. What a tragic disappointment for these great men and women, the defenders of our freedom!

This facility is horrible with chipped paint on all surfaces (doors, jams, walls, metalwork, etc.), dingy tile & walls that look to be decades old, bathrooms that smell of old urine and stall dividers that must be the original with only some of original paint left on them. Dusty blinds and dirty walls were on every floor. There were soiled, with feces clothing and bed linens on chairs that had been there for a day or so by the smell. All the restrooms that I used (4 or 5) were no better than “scary” gas stations restrooms.

Our family member had been there without food, an IV or bathing for 2 days. His breathing was labored and was not monitored, nor noticed by staff, until his wife pointed it out and suggested oxygen that they promptly used and found fluid around his lungs that was not there when he was admitted. With us there we were able to get the attention and care for him. The doctors and nurses all rotate, so you don’t have the opportunity to have the same ones.

It is such a shame that our country’s great heroes are treated in these manner. I have been in Mexico and see different hospitals there; this hospital is only a small step up from those. Other hospitals in our area are great by comparison.

The HMO’s our family has used in the past are better than this. Our current family health coverage through my husbands work is perfect and affordable for our family. We get to choose our doctors and have the coverage that we need.

This is representative of how the government manages health care…. God help us if all the hospitals in the US become government run. They will be like this!!!

I am sending this to everyone in our address books and asking them to contact their representatives to vote “NO” for US run Health Care.

Please vote NO, too!!!

Sincerely,

Kristine Farley

The Fed Under Fire