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(Text of Amendments and Votes @ link) Democrats Refuse to Let Americans Keep the Insurance They Have and Like 2 out of 3 will lose their health insurance Democrats voted against an amendment offered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to strike the government-run plan. When speaking before the American Medical Association, President Obama stated that, “If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.” However, the Democrats government-run plan breaks this promise. According to two independent studies: The government-run plan will result in...

Although President Obama and liberal Congressional Democrats have denounced claims that the health care reform establishes "death panels," it does not help reassure the American public that the nation's foremost pro-euthanasia group is actively pushing "end-of-life counseling" as a centerpiece of health-care reforms. Compassion & Choices, a rebranding of the former Hemlock Society, aggressively lobbies to legalize euthanasia as a "human right" by means of legislation and the judicial system. But the group has revealed that it is a major player behind incorporating a measure (sec. 1233) of the "American Affordable Choices Act of 2009" (HR 3200) that would pay...

The House bill actually raises more questions than it resolves with respect to whether the bill will burden American taxpayers by giving health care benefits to legal and illegal aliens. Under Welfare Reform, legal aliens are required to wait five years before becoming eligible for welfare or other taxpayer funded benefits. The House bill eliminates that 5-year waiting period. Accordingly, legal aliens will become immediately eligible for this government handout paid for by American taxpayers. Illegal aliens are also likely to qualify for this affordability credit. This is because there are NO provisions that would prevent illegals from participating in...

“HR 3200: Section 1401, Page 503: The Government will build a central electronic database of ALL private medical records and may secure directly from any agency or department information necessary to carry-out the provisions of this Bill…” While President Obama’s Healthcare Plan contains a multitude of horrors, perhaps the worst is making available online to your local town government and police your complete personal records. Do not be calmed by assurances that these records will be assiduously protected and available only to proper channels for the purpose of ensuring your health. Let me suggest that this private information will be...

The nation’s Catholic bishops have told Congress that they oppose H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, as it currently stands, because the health-care reform bill would mandate funding and insurance coverage for abortion. In an August 11 letter to members of the House of Representatives, Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the pro-life committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (U.S.C.C.B.), told lawmakers that health-care reform must “respect human life and rights of conscience in the context of abortion.” “Much-needed reform must not become a vehicle for promoting an ‘abortion rights’ agenda or reversing longstanding policies against federal funding...

We already knew this, thanks to Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Barack Obama himself, but it’s nice to get confirmation from those fine folks at Factcheck.org — an Annenberg project, no less. After Obama tried to paint it as a lie, the National Right to Life Committee insisted that ObamaCare would use taxpayer money to fund abortions. It turns out that they were right: The truth is that bills now before Congress don’t require federal money to be used for supporting abortion coverage. So the president is right to that limited extent. But it’s equally true that House and Senate legislation...

The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, HR 3200 sponsored by John Dingell, D-MI, establishes a huge new bureaucracy within the executive branch, the Health Choices Administration which is led by a Commissioner with at least 22 clearly enumerated powers and responsibilities, including: 1 The establishment of qualified health benefits plan QHBP standards. 2 The establishment and operation of a Health Insurance Exchange. 3 The administration of individual affordability credits. 4 Promoting accountability of all QHBP offering entities in meeting Federal health insurance requirements. 5 Conducting audits (at the expense of the QHBP) of qualified health benefits plan compliance....

To follow up on Greg's post below, LifeNews is reporting that Title V of HR 3200, Subtitle B, called "School-Based Health Clinics" in the House "health reform bill" would provide for government funded "health clinics" staffed by Planned Parenthood in or near public schools. In other words, federally-funded abortion clinics to make sure high school girls aren't, in the President's words, "punished with a baby."

In the current House health care bill, there are 53 new regulators. Let me say that again, the House health care bill creates 53 NEW REGULATORS. The implications of this spread throughout health care reform and the debate surrounding it. In fact, if Conservatives want to keep things simple then they only need to repeat, 53 new regulators, over and over again in any debate. That's because with 53 new regulators everything else is moot. When President Obama says that we'll be able to keep our current insurance that's only if all of the 53 new regulators approve of our...

The health care reform bills Congress is considering would not require people who sign up for government health care programs to verify their eligibility. That opens the door for millions of illegal aliens and other non-citizens to receive medical services paid for by taxpayers, a panel of experts from the conservative Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the Heritage Foundation said Wednesday. Title II, Substitle C, Section 246 of the House health care bill (H.R. 3200) stipulates "no federal payment for undocumented aliens." The Senate Bill states that beneficiaries of federal health care programs must be a citizen or an...

WASHINGTON -- Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable political talent. But there are no "death panels" in the Democratic health care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate. We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend. To offer government reimbursement to any doctor who gives end-of-life counseling -- whether or not the patient...

Steve Miller, a fellow CFP contributor sent out an email blast last night. In his note he included examples of the HR3200 language including a link to the copy available through the library of congress. That’s one of things I really appreciate about Steve, he is dogged when it comes to research. No wonder the powers that be incessantly work to silence him. HR3200 is a beautifully woven web of governmental Orwellian doubletalk. For those under the age of 40, that is a reference to George Orwell’s novel 1984. Check it out and cross reference it to Obama’s last few...

The heated debate over health care reform continued Monday in Wayne County. Democratic Congressman Chris Carney held a town hall meeting with hundreds at the Wayne County courthouse in Honesdale to address some of the rumors and concerns. Carney spent most of the town meeting debunking what he calls mis-information about a proposed health care reform bill. "I understand that there is a part of this bill that it says the government is going to have a say in how my children can raise their children because they are paying for the health care," commented Ruth of Matamoras. Carney told...

(I received this in my inbox.) To provide you with a clear understanding ... PLEASE PASS IT ON. TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PLANS BEING PROPOSED: Healthcare: Questions and Answers (regarding: H.R. 3200, Americas Affordable Health Choices Act): 1-QUESTION: Will health reform force all Americans out of their private insurance plans and into a government-run plan? Answer: No. You will always have a choice. If you like your insurance, you can keep it. H.R. 3200 builds on the employer-based coverage we have today. If your employer offers health insurance, you will continue to get your coverage...

SAME CRAP... DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGY It is Absolutely a Ruse! Dick Morris has been very clear that Obama will stop at nothing to push this bill through. See http://www.dickmorris.com Also Michael D. Tanner writing in an article posted on the CATO Institute website www.cato.org article at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10440 points out that the Government of the Obama Administration has no difficulty whatsoever in stretching definitions into utter deception. “The “compromise” health-care reform being negotiated by six members of the Senate Finance Committee is shaping up as a classic warning of the dangers of bipartisanship without principles: It looks like they’ll keep the worst...

Reading Guide—Democrat Health "Reform" August 6, 2009 In order to assist Members, staff, and interested parties seeking to read and review the health "reform" legislation (H.R. 3200) introduced by House Democrats, the Republican Conference has compiled a list of important page numbers and provisions in the 1,018-page "America’s Affordable Health Choices Act:"Page 19—Section 102(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government Page 30—Section 123 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the "Health Benefits Advisory Committee") to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase—and...

Remember all the shrieking over the Patriot Act? The concern over privacy? How could the government snoop? Well, HR3200 will have the government in our bank accounts, in all of our medical records, and my understanding is that they won't even be required to keep our medical records private. There will be a national ID, for sure, and I know that's a big concern. Where are the liberal on this devastating loss of privacy? Where are the cries of excessive snooping now? Oh, if Obama and his side of the issue were being straight with his own people, this thing...

Section 1233 would have Medicare pay doctors to counsel seniors on "end-of-life" matters once every five years - or more if the patient's health is dicey. Obama's supporters have forwarded to me links to Politifact.org and FactCheck.org, which have examined Section 1233 [of HR 3200], and conclude nothing sinister is in the bill. Several facts are missing, however. The man who wrote Section 1233, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., advocates euthanasia or, as he calls it on his Web site, "Death with Dignity." In 2005, as the Bush administration challenged Oregon's "Death with Dignity" law, Blumenauer issued a statement criticizing the...

I haven't found this language in HR3200 yet. But it does exist in the as yet un-numbered Senate version of the socialized medince bill. The Senate Version Of The Socialized Medicine Bill Exempts Congress From Socialized Health Care 84rules August 14, 2009 If anyone can find where a Congressional exemption exists in HR3200 (Section and page number), please post it. Thanks.

Tired of wading through thousands of pages of legislation? Worried that the government will of necessity (that’s “perforce” to budding wordsmiths) begin rationing health care?? Sick of the whole “health care is a right” crowd??? Fugeddaboudit!!! FReeper MaggieCarta offers her modest proposal to effectively “reform Health care as we know it” in less than 140 characters. See the proposal in comment #1.