A
few highlights from the first 500 pages of the Healthcare bill in congress.
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Posted on Friday,
August 07, 2009 4:15:27 PM by Exton1
This is scary!!! It's all terrifying but page 59
and 425, and 427-430 is unbelievable! Here are a few of the items that are
downright 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 Health card.
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 familie s.
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 doesnt 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 interferes in your marriage.
Page 494: Government will cover mental health
services: defining, creating and rationing those services.