Posted on 11/07/2009 9:32:16 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is prepared to jail any American who does not buy a qualifying health insurance plan if the healthcare bill she sponsored (H.R. 3962, as amended) is passed into law.
On November 6, Congressman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), the senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, released a letter he received from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) in response to his inquiry as to potential penalties for failing to comply with mandates set forth in the so-called “Affordable Health Care for America Act.” The information set out in the response should be shocking, but such unconstitutional abuses of power are becoming de rigueur and have almost lost their ability to stupefy. Still, the details are sinister. As the old saying goes, the devil is definitely in them.
In a letter dated November 5, the Joint Committee on Taxation informed Congressman Camp that there is a broad range of civil and criminal penalties applicable to any American who fails to purchase a health insurance policy that passes legislative muster, or as euphemistically styled in the bill itself: “acceptable health insurance coverage.” As reported by the Congressional Budget Office, the lowest annual cost of an approved family non-group policy would be approximately $15,000. That is to say, currently written in the bill under consideration, if a family’s health insurance plan doesn’t cost at least $15,000 a year, then you are breaking the law and will be held accountable.
As for just exactly what a “qualified plan” will require, no one is quite sure and those who should be (the elected representatives who will be voting for or against the bill) probably haven’t read the complete text because they can’t fit the bill in their briefcases as it is a hefty 1,990 pages.
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The profit potential is enormous. Maybe that's why the Constitution doesn't permit such abuse of power.
This is tyranny.
Well of course they are going to put you in jail. If you don’t pay your taxes, they put you in jail. That’s all this is, one giant tax, enforced by threat of jail.
Any version of federal health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care. The people are not bound by any unconstitutional act conducted by any branch of government.
How long before we can get this beast before the Supreme Court, should it become law?
I just got insurance quotes for renewing my policy. The best coverage policy for my whole family at the highest rate, lowest deductible doesn’t even get to $15000 a year ($1250 a month).
Does that mean even if I have the best insurance I can buy from my provider I still go to jail?
Between heath care non compliance and gun owners, the dems seem to really want to create new classes of criminals. They’re going to need to de-criminalize some of the existing crimes to make room in the jails.
Being retired military my wife and I are covered but I have dependent children who are college age but too old for coverage (five year plan, it happens), I can now have the choice of paying for college and having my children arrested, or healthcare and no college, or just borrow until my family or children are forever in debt, oh wait, congress already did that with the stimulus didn’t they!
Our founding fathers aren’t rolling over in their graves, they are spinning nonstop.
Does anyone have the following figures/data?
Population of the U.S.
Total Number of Medicare beneficiaries.
Total Number of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Total Military personnel & dependent Tricare beneficiaries.
Total Number of Insured employer/employees.
Total Number of persons with individual health care policies
Total Number of really rich, health folks who pay as they go.
Number of people insured under Property and Auto personal injury coverage if accidentally injured?
Does that really leave 46 million people without access to medical care?
Of course, people in the country illegally are exempt. :)
Take your individual mandate and stick it where the sun don't shine, Pelosi.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapter 3, Page 404
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“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.
Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.
What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power”.
-George Orwell, 1984, Part Three, Chapter III, page 263
Time for the Second Republic.
Everybody in America has "access to medical care".
You just show up at an Emergency Room and, by Federal law, they are required to treat any emergent condition.
I won’t pay a dime and I won’t go to jail. However, move permanently to my vacation home outside the US, just like my doctor plans to do.
Refuse to comply, period! Tell them to stick it. They can’t arrest 150 million or more. Anyone that is against this and goes along with it, is a coward and deserves what they get.
Pelosi thy name is infamy
At this point I’ve decided the line has been drawn and I plan on non-compliance and jail time. I just have to make arrangements for my daughter, but she will be 18 in a few months.
Please Let your REPRESENTATIVE know your OPPOSITION to this bill: HR 3962
(202)224-3121
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