This is what the politicians want to do in this country. I am not sure who compiled this cliffs notes version of the health bill. Is it eye opening?
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits
you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• 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 (read: 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
• 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.” Yes, it really says that.
• 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.
• 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 from 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.
• P age 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage
Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS
individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by
phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: 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.
• 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.
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August 6th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Anyone who is surprised by the direction of leadership from the current administration was truly naive. Remember… Obama’s voting record as a Senator was recorded as the most liberal of any congressman. The solution will be a wise leader that is noble, and will hold fast to the proven principles of Free Enterprise, Limited Government, and Individual Responsibility of the citizens. The previous administration was not stellar either, and was easily swayed by a elitist media…and squandered many opportunities.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
If you don’t know who compiled the these cliff notes, how you can be sure they’re accurate and not taken out of context or slanted. Where can one read the bill in its entirety, so we can make our own assessment?
August 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
The ripples have started before the major storm. WE MUST BE ON OUR GUARD?
More than ever before, this is the time to ignite the major issues under the feet of all politicians. We need the extraction process of mandated E-Verify composite of the SAVE ACT; to remove illegal labor from the workplace in all businesses Gathered together with local police detainment 287(g), the NO MATCH Social Security law and not to weaken ICE raids. All patriotic Americans who believe in a pro-sovereignty, anti-illegal immigrant must contact their arrogant pandering lawmakers, demanding no amnesty, no chain migration and build the border fence according two original specifications. American Workers and the general public must fight against abhorrent special interest groups, such as US chamber of Commerce, ACLU, La Raza, Council of Foreign Relations, ImmigrationWorksUSA and many more. Say–NO–to ACORN INVOLVED IN THE 2010 CENSUS. Sen. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi are the American Workers worst enemies?
That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama’s health care renewal plan—WILL–attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress. MY QUESTION IS! WHY SHOULD TAXPAYERS SUPPORT THE ILLEGAL LABOR FOR THE PARASITE CORPORATE ENTITIES ACROSS AMERICA? CALL TODAY AND GIVE POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 YOUR CRESCENDO OF FRUSTRATION? THAT’S ALL THEY UNDERSTAND–WHEN THEIR JOBS ARE IN PERIL. GOOGLE NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIALWATCH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND PROFITEERING FROM BOTH PARTIES. OVERPOPULATION will be the irreversible consequences of mass immigration.
August 6th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Pudding – that is a fair question – first of all, it came from a very strong source that has never in the past sent me bad information. Second, I checked out several of these page references
http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
Now, much of this ambiguous mess they call a bill is left up to interpretation. However, you can see where how the interpretation was derived. The page numbers don’t all line-up. You have to read the page before and after on some of them.
August 25th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
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September 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
very well said
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