Posted on 07/26/2009 10:59:49 AM PDT by Bobkk47
I believe the healthcare initiative should be renamed the “Big Brother Healthcare Act of 2009.” This takeover starts with the lead person, a commissioner. The commissioner and the person under him will be given authority to carry a gun. I am not sure how this became part of the healthcare act, but it is in there. Their power is great, as they will take control over 16 percent of our economy.
Costs will be capped at $5,000 per year for an individual. Costs for a family will be capped at $10,000 per year. Yearly increases will be based on the Consumer Price Index. If you wish to pay additional money to obtain greater coverage, it is allowed by paying for a premium account with the government. Or, you can pay a separate amount to a private insurance company to cover the items the government will no longer have listed in this streamlined national coverage.
This new agency says it does not intend to increase healthcare expenditures, so it is going to have to take the ultimate step to make sure that doesn’t happen. It is called limiting, or rationing healthcare.
This healthcare division is going to require the most amount of paperwork ever imagined. All records will be part of a national computerized system. Every doctor visit and hospital visit will not only be added to your record, it will be sent to the national agency to be part of records kept, based on individuals and groups. Groups will be tracked as follows: race, gender, financial status and location in the country.
Costs will be determined for each group. If there is something they can pressure a group to do to lower costs, it will be demanded. If you eat too much of a type of food that has been connected to health risks, you can be asked to cut back on this food. If you don’t partake in an exercise program, you will be tagged as adding to the costs of maintaining the system based on your lifestyle. These groups could be taxed at a higher rate, based on behavior.
We are all eligible. So eligible that when you file your income tax for the year, if you cannot prove you are adequately insured, you will be fined. At this point, the fine will be $1,000.
What is an eligible group? That is a group that meets every requirement that is imposed by this new agency.
There will be a Health Benefits Advisory Committee.
Another thing the new insurance “mafia” will be determining is quality of care for determined groups. These are groups that include race, gender, income levels and location. If level of care is not distributed in a fairly equitable manner, hospitals and doctors will be required to give what they feel is the reason for this tiered healthcare. What it is suggesting is that it is possible higher-income groups may receive better care. That will no longer be allowed.
Hospitals will no longer have autonomy in hiring and firing staff. Hospitals and doctors must be able to provide the type of care demanded by this agency. So, this could possibly lead to more testing required for doctors and other healthcare providers. Hospitals and doctors must agree to take what payment is offered to them by the government.
Associated costs are going to dictate the length of time a pregnant woman may remain in the hospital after a natural birth. Like epidurals? Think natural. If you have a C-section, you will be limited to the hospital stay the government decides is appropriate. The government is also going to be involved in making sure women take the appropriate personal steps to carry their baby to the most viable stage before delivery. Again, loose wording. If a woman is carrying multiple births, the government could determine that carrying only one would give the other the best chance at a later-term delivery. That would possibly give the government control over the woman’s uterus, in the name of nationalized healthcare.
States no longer have the final say on Medicaid recipients. If they do not handle their Medicaid to meet federal demands, the federal government will take control.
This group will have control over scientific research. If someone needs a grant to study a possible route to a cure, it will be asking for money from this entity. That will put into question who owns the information gathered from the work of these scientists. What will that mean to a group such as Amgen?
Another bit of wording I found concerning is that this is a national system. They are keeping in mind that, in the future, it will most likely be part of a worldwide system. If you can think that through a bit, you will understand that we could be put into a worldwide pool that has us responsible to bring everyone to the same level of coverage. What could that cost, and how do you collect money from a country that has yearly personal income of $100?
Read the initiative! Go to http://www.energycommerce.house.gov, click on pending insurance legislation. Then, get vocal through your increased knowledge of this horrific takeover.
Everyone should be equally incensed and make demands to their legislators. Dump this legislation. Work on getting rid of the double-digit fraud in Medicaid and Medicare, and get people on these plans that already are set up to cover uninsured. Demand that competition for health insurance needs to be interstate. This will immediately increase competition.
If someone gets fired or laid off from a job, allow him to continue with his health insurance. You can put a cap on the amount, it can increase yearly, so that it doesn’t devastate the people put into this group.
Don’t force another payment like Social Security on the American people. Government has been a complete failure with Social Security and has turned our seniors who are dependent on this money to just above poverty level. I believe the payments for healthcare will be comparable to those of Social Security. We are too smart to sit idly by while this takeover is planned and possibly implemented. Make your legislators hear your voice. Please.
— Carla Bonney of Ventura organized the anti-tax tea party at the Ventura County Government Center on July 4.
Ultimate Fail
I just got this email which gave me a chuckle or two...and is highly illustrative of the substance of the above article:
TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER’S HEALTH CARE PLAN MAY HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE PLAN:
(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor’s office include “Take a left when you enter the trailer park.”
(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgecicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is “Gus” from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventive Care Coverage is “an apple a day...”
(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
(4) “The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges,” is not a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is “embalming.”
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M’s on them.
AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU’VE JOINED OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE PLAN: (1) You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and Duct Tape.
Your second opinion will be issued by ACORN - you’re ugly, too.
They are a board of warders; watchers of the government health care gates.
We are about to be warder boarded.
That really really is the primary motive. Exactly like Cap and Trade, a primary motive of the Elitists. That is why we (in the US) all feel manipulated, with agenda's being rammed down our wallets.
It is why Barack Obama gave his foremost campaign speech in Germany!
It is the agenda of the Council on Foreign Relations regardless of the opinions of the US taxpayer.
It is the agenda of the Elitists to "synchronize" the economy of the United States with the rest of the world, even though they have NO idea of what a world economy holds. The greatest cabal of pseudo-intellectuals in the world.
They, the Elitists, can do this because they have protected themselves, their wealth, their privileges, beforehand, e.g. Jay Rockefeller.
Yet any system is far more stable with independent units, like individual nations, playing with, or against, each other with multiple positive and negative feedback pathways. One health-care system one place may expose or redact a different health-care system another place, in addition to providing options for mobile individual freedom. It is a recurrent lesson in management to decentralize responsibilities and initiatives to individually distributed parties. The result being that the wondrous creative spirit of the human individual (infinitely beyond Nancy Pelosi) provides a more inventive and dynamic environment, yet still self-correcting overall.
This is how the term "statist" arises, the terrible centralization and consequent stasis of the endeavor. For anybody, absolutely any body, to think they have the one solution to be imposed is arrogance beyond reason.
Get the lawyers, and government out of it. Uncouple all employers from health-care. Give total tax credit for health-care. And allow us to be free. There will be so many options that even bureaucrats will look expensive.
Johnny Suntrade
Still more HCR (horrific crisis rising) ping...
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