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Understanding the Health Care Bill
- Aug 4, 2009 at 9:24 AM
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Understanding the Health Care Bill
Regardless of your political preferences, I urge you for moral reasons to email or call your US congressional representative and senators today (even if you have called or emailed before) to oppose the horrifically bad Health Care Bill that is before Congress. The legislators are under extreme pressure to pass this bill; we need to exert extreme pressure for it not to be passed.
Click on this link Fred Thompson: Interviews and please listen to the 8 minute interview with someone who has carefully read this bill. It will start automatically. (See also a summary of some of the terrible points of this bill below.)
Contact both of your senators and your representative. Ask them to read Page 425 of the proposed health care bill
On Page 425 of this Health Care Bill, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security (this will include all senior citizens and SSI people) to a MANDATORY counseling session every 5 years in which the counselor will explain to the person why and how to choose one of various ways to end his/her suffering (and his/her life). Yes, they are going to push SUICIDE to cut Medicare spending! Health care will be denied based on age. 500 billion dollars will be cut from the senior citizen healthcare budget. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care. The oldest and the sickest will be cut first. Paying for your own care will not be an option
I urge you to email or call your Congressmen in Washington today!!! Tell them to read page 425 of this bill, if they don't read anything else. Surely, some of them have elderly parents who will be affected by this.. And politicians themselves will be affected by this some day too
Feel free to send this email to everyone in your address book. The web address www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml provides the email address of every elected official in the United States. It might help others make the necessary contacts regarding page 425 of the proposed health care bill.
The President is trying to rush this bill through Congress -- before the American people (and maybe even before your political representatives) find out what is buried on page 425 and other pages of this lengthy Health Care Bill.
Little gems from the Health Care Bill
• 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 government option!
• 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 (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." 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 speciality 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.
• 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.
"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " Hubert H. Humphrey
Together we can tell Congress that any government-run healthcare plan good enough for the American people must be good enough for our civic leaders.
Click on link below.....
This is IMPORTANT...has already passed Senate Committee this morning!!! Please take just a second to do this and pass it on!!
Please click the link and demand that all members of Congress and the Senate, and all of their employees get the same kind of medical coverage that they are voting for, for you. No more, no less, as it seems to be the only way to make them look at what they are doing. . .
It is simple, quick and easy. . . Just hit the link. It will take you less time than it did to read this blurb that I wrote. . .
Thank you and pass it on to all that you know !
http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/goodenoughforcongress
· Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services
Good Enough for Congress
Tell Congress to Take a Dose of Their Own Medicine
If They Vote for Government-Run Healthcare, They Enroll in Government-Run Healthcare
Comments:
I voted for McCain .. government is calling all the shot's .. Communism .. bet ya .. getting there someday ... watch
I wanted to say , I am lost completely on what they are doing none of it makes sense to me .. I just hope and pray that it all works for the good of all the Americana's who it might be affecting .. very confusing . Who know's if McCain would have done any better ??
Yes, unfortunately, this is where our country is going! And, no, it doesn't make any sense at all. It is more money for Obama and ACORN, none for the rest of us and no medical help at all for us. It is all about rationing healthcare and you definitely won't be able to get the help you need when you need it. Why would you want an organization like ACORN to have access to your PERSONAL info?! ARRGGGHH! I just read another article like this and was going to post it, but yours is better. Thank you for posting this and I really hope that more people read this and realize that this is going to happen(or could) if we don't stop it!
too long to read but voted popular
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here is the letter i am sending to my reps
I am writing you to urge you to please READ the health care reform bill that is being rushed through the congress as I write this. The insurance that I have at this time is exactly what my family needs, and to be honest, no matter what your response to me I have no faith in ANY bill that gets passed not meddling in my current health care under this current administration. I am getting the feeling from reading this bill that there is an air of entitlement going on. Just because other people don't have the same coverage I have (which by the way my husband works his rear end off to provide for my family) I shouldn't have it either? How messed up is that? We have health concerns in our family that scare me to death, especially now that the government is messing in our health care. My biggest concern is my mental health issues, an issue that is greatly misunderstood by those who do not suffer and non mental health professionals. Having people write law on such an issue without any real experience in it is irresponsible and negligent. If you are so sure that this is the BEST way for our country to go, I challenge you to live for the next 4 years on this program before you decide to pass it. You just may change your mind. Please I beg of you do not pass this.
Hmm. The mandatory counseling is about whether or not you have an advance directive. Oh no! I received counseling about that upon admission to the hospital to have my daughter. Apparently, they were trying to kill me, I guess, not asking me whether or not I'd want to remain on life support indefinitely. Advance directive DOES NOT EQUAL end-of-life care. Those are two different concepts entirely.
I'm getting really tired of people picking apart random lines from random versions of different bills floating around and sounding an alarm when they don't even know what they're getting upset about.
Do you have ANY IDEA what telehealth even is? Telehealth, or telemedicine, provides rural communitites access to specialty services that they lack--using video conferencing, not the telephone. For example, the hospital with which I am affiliated provides telemedicine support for child sexual assault cases in areas where the child would otherwise have to suffer through a 2 hour or more car trip with a stranger to a hospital with qualified personnel to do an examination. Instead, the examiner can read remotely the images relayed through the colposcope that a local physician is using in response to the expert's instructions. This keeps the child in the community they belong to and has been shown to improve the collection of forensic evidence and changed the way that practitioners gained information from the patient, using the multimethod technique used by experts instead of "So, tell me what happened."
Practicing physicians in many places are already prohibited from owning or investing beyond a certain amount in healthcare companies anyways, to prevent conflict of interest. This would not actually produce any change in practice were it to be put into law. In fact, it already is a law for many physicians and has been for decades.
Many government agencies that deal with health already have mandates for community involvement---these have been in place for many, many years and are not a product of the Obama administration. I am involved with projects that have this mandate, and the community organizations involved are not ACORN (never met or heard from anyone from that group) but local breast cancer awareness groups, Huntington's disease family support groups, groups of families with children with autism spectrum disorders, etc.
I don't know everything that's in the bill. What I do know is that whenever I see someone panicking about something, it is usually because they don't understand what the topic is about. Before you panic, do more to educate yourself than just reading the text of the bill. Find out what concepts mean (e.g., telehealth) if they are unfamiliar to you. Find out how things are currently done (e.g., how Medicare reimbursement is currently set). Don't panic until then.
I read this, and called bullshit. Looked online, and it is in fact bullshit.
Way to spin the truth though! LOL!!!
Here's a linky.
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