Then contact all of your reps and exercise a politcal free fire zone over this monstrosity.
Here are some of the things I have found so far.
Section 113 b-1 Page 22: Mandates an audit of all employers that self-insure to "ensure that the law does not provide incentives for small and mid-size employers to self-insure".
Section 123 Page 30: A government Health Benefits Advisory Committee will recommend what treatments and benefits are available. Once accepted and adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, there is no appeal.
Section 141 & 142 Page 42: Establish a "Health Choices Commissioner" appointed by the Prresident who will establish qualified plan standards for the insured, establish a "Health INsurance Exchange", will administer "Health Insurance Credits" and determin who is eligible, will ensure compliance, conduct audits, administer penalites and remedies.
Section 152 Page 50: All healthcare services will be provided without regard to "personal characteristcs" which is not defined within the document as is understood to include immigration status.
Section 1173A a-2-D Page 58: Calls for a National Health Plan Beneficiary Identification Card for every person and the ability to determine a persons indivual financial responsibility and eligibility prior to, or at the time of service.
Section 1173A a-4-C Page 59: Requires the ability to have electronic funds tranfer from insured account to the federal government automate reconcilliation of health care payment.
Section 164 Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize a retiree reinsurance health fund up to 10 billion dollars to assist participating employment-based plans (unions, community organizers, etc.) with the cost of providing health benefits to retirees and to eligible spouses, surviving spouses and dependents of such retirees
Section 294 b-7 Page 91: Government mandates culturally and linguistically appropriate communication and health services for all.
Section 205 a-1 Page 95-96: The Government will etsablish an outreach program to inform, educate, and enroll participants, directed at "vulnerable" populations and to be accomplished in person at "community locations", by mail, telephone, or electronically. Tailor made for ACORN and Americorps.
Section 205 C-3-3 Page 102: If you do not enroll in a "National Health Exchange Plan" and are eligible for Medicaid, you will automatically be enrolled in Medicaid. You have no choice in the matter.
Section 223 f Page 124: There will be no administrative or "judicial review" permitted for payment rates established under the National Health Care Plans.
Section 224 b Page 125: The Secretary shall design and implement the payment mechanisms and policies under this section in a manner that — (1) seeks to (B) reduce health disparities (including racial, ethnic and other disparities).
Section 312 a-4, c-2 Page 145-148: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into a government approved plan, either the public plan or another plan, unless an employee makes an affiormative decision to opt out.
Seaction 312 b-3 Page 146-147: Employers MUST pay pro-rated healthcare contribution for part-time employees AND their families.
Section 313 b-1 Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll, $350+-400K it is 6%, for over $300+-350K it is 4%, for $250+- 300K it is 2%.
Title IV Amendment to IRS COde Imposes a 2.5% income tax penalty to those individuals opting out, not to exceed what would be the National Average Premium, determined by the Secretary of Health and Welfare.
Section 1233 E & F Page 426-433 Establishes mandatory end-of-life counseling for senior citizens over age 65 every five years, or sooner if bebeficiary becomes ill.
Section 1302 a Page 460-482: Establishes a "Medical Home Pilot Program" for the elderly or "targeted high need beneficiaries" in urban, rural, and served areas. No physician nned be on duty, run by nurse paractitioners and physician assistants. Care for beneficiaries coordinated by a team of individuals at the practice level using "evidence based guidelines" which advocate only the use of medical treatments that are supported by effectiveness research.
Oh, so it's possible - since the illegals will be covered - to get a national card for every individual, but not to track them down and deport them to their own country.
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Love him or hate him, I am forever grateful to Sen. Phil Gramm for personally vowing to put an end to ClintonCare back in 1993, delaying this horror for a few years. In 2007, I finally found a neurosurgeon who understood my situation, he corrected as best he could a problem that other NS had caused back in 1988, was evident on MRI continuously over those years. He diagnosed me based on what he saw with his own eyes and heard from me in describing difficulties, he had no answer for me when I asked why none of these other physicians could see what was clearly occurring in my body year after year after year.
In various threads discussing this monstrous *reform*, I have had FReepers argue with me though I post my own experience. I have had others ridicule my real fear that what is being talked about in this thread is in my future. Gramm got me a few years, enough time that the neurosurgeon was available and I was able to get the surgery I needed from him to help me, but I am not *fixed*, I am still permanently and totally disabled. I can take care of my personal needs, I occupy my time with things that require little in the way of physical exertion, but I am not able, physically, to do much of anything else. It is almost unbelievable and sad to see the thing that was standing in the way of these idiot Blue Dog Dems from getting their Yeas was the price tag and NOT the absolute evil this bill is.
God help anyone who votes this thing into being, pray God none of you ever have to live under its ramifications. I keep trying to warn, it's not just the elderly that will have to deal with this, I was 23 when my nightmare began. I don't know what else to do except hope that someone will listen to me sometime, somewhere.
Thanks again.