A few highlights from the first 500 pages of the Healthcare bill in congress
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Contact your Representatives and let them know how you feel about
this. We, as a country, cannot afford another 1000 page bill to go
through congress without being read. Another 500 pages to go. I have
highlighted a few of the items that are down right unconstitutional.
� 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 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 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.