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[Gregory P]

Originally Posted by uber_bwnage

Happy reading:

• 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 gov option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission that your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (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 (like 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 (government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation for 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 government will set wages for medical professionals.
• 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
• 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. (From groups like ACORN)
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures
• 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.

Come on.

It just isn't helpful to post something like that. It's been around for weeks and already completely discredited. And it's played a role in a lot of the anger that might not be necessary (or constructive).

The fact is if you have the time to read the actual 1,018 page doc, it's nearly impossible to interpret any of it unless you've got extensive training in health care reform.

If anyone is interested in the "real" document here it is:

http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf (broken link)

The summary is also available, but not much easier to understand:

Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)

[uber_bwnage]

Originally Posted by Gregory P

Come on.
If anyone is interested in the "real" document here it is:

http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf (broken link)

I would encourage everyone to look up the pages I listed in the actual bill and see how "discredited" the points are. Some may be a stretch, but most are dead on.

[amploud]

Originally Posted by uber_bwnage

I would encourage everyone to look up the pages I listed in the actual bill and see how "discredited" the points are. Some may be a stretch, but most are dead on.

Be careful in assuming this is the only document to devour. No proposal has been set in stone. There is more than one proposed plan and they will continue to evolve daily.

[NCN]

I got in touch with the speaker of the house and the president and then started getting e-mails from Axelrod. I did not ask for a reply. I just wanted them to know where I stand on the issue. I think I know what Sue Myrick will do and it is useless to get in touch with Hagan. She is an Obama puppet.

[NCN]

BTW I watched Specter's Town Hall meeting and the only person I saw for the plan was asking for something that was not on it. My husband is going for a checkup next week and will have to pay for the whole thing himself, unless we are wrong. We are hoping to be wrong. This is the first time he will be going to the doctor since he is totally retired and does not have a second and sometimes third health policy. Medicare has no preventative healthcare. The things that will make a person more healthy and catch things early are usually not covered by government plans.

I don't think the plan is worth the paper it is written on. It is just another excuse to collect more taxes. A plan that would be good enough for the president and congress, the military, etc. would be a plan worth having. I think if there is a health plan it should be for everybody and make everybody have the same rules. I don't think congress would settle for a plan for themselves like the plan that is proposed, so I say throw it out and let us keep our good healthcare.