OBAMACARE PROVISION: “FORCED” HOME INSPECTIONS

“Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents for almost any reason.”

The Health and Human Services’ website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the “high-risk” categories below:

Families where mom is not yet 21. Families where someone is a tobacco user. Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities. Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States.

There is no reference to Medicaid being the determinant for a family to be “eligible.”

In 2011, the HHS announced $224 million will be given to support evidence-based home visiting programs to “help parents and children.” Individuals from the state will implement these leveraging strategies to “enhance program sustainability.”

“This is not a “voluntary” program. The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks. A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to “intervention” in “school readiness” and “social-emotional developmental indicators.” A farm family may be subject to “intervention” in order to “prevent child injuries.” The sky is the limit.

Although the Obama administration would claim the provision applies only to Medicaid families, the new statute, by its own definition, has no such limitation. Intervention may be with any family for any reason. It may also result in the child or children being required to go to certain schools or taking certain medications and vaccines and even having more limited – or no – interaction with parents. The federal government will now set the standards for raising children and will enforce them by home visits.”

Part of the program will require massive data collecting of private information including all sources of income and the amount gathered from each source.

A manual called Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention includes firearms as potential safety hazard and will require inspectors to verify safety compliance and record each inspection into a database.

Last session South Carolina Rep. Bill Chumley introduced a bill, H.3101 that would nullify certain provisions of Obamacare. The bill would give the state attorney general the authority to authorize law enforcement to arrest federal agents for trespassing. It would make forced home inspections under Obamacare illegal in South Carolina. It passed in the House but died in the senate.

Kent Brown and Rep. Rick Quinn discuss “forced” home inspections under Obamacare in the video below.

From the HRSA.gov website:

"The purpose of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Competitive Grant program is to award Development Grants to States that currently have modest home visiting programs and want to build on existing efforts. Successful applicants will sufficiently demonstrate the capacity to expand or enhance their evidence-based home visiting programs. The funding provided will build on the formula funding already provided to States and territories to support the quality implementation of home visiting programs. Additionally, this funding opportunity will continue the program's emphasis on rigorous research by grounding the proposed work in relevant empirical literature, and by including requirements to evaluate work proposed under this grant.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, approximately $12,000,000 will be available to support competitive Development Grants to eligible States and jurisdictions under the MIECHV program. $125,000,000 will be awarded on a formula basis to grantees funded under HRSA-11-187 for the MIECHV program. Successful applicants will be awarded FY 2012 competitive Development Grant funds, in addition to the FY2012 MIECHV formula based funds.

Priority for Serving High-Risk Populations and Programmatic Areas of Emphasis As directed in the legislation , successful applicants will give priority to providing services to the following populations:

a) Eligible families who reside in communities in need of such services, as identified in the statewide needs assessment required under subsection (b)(1)(A).
b) Low-income eligible families.
c) Eligible families who are pregnant women who have not attained age 21.
d) Eligible families that have a history of child abuse or neglect or have had interactions with child welfare services.
e) Eligible families that have a history of substance abuse or need substance abuse treatment.
f) Eligible families that have users of tobacco products in the home.
g) Eligible families that are or have children with low student achievement.
h) Eligible families with children with developmental delays or disabilities.
i) Eligible families who, or that include individuals who, are serving or formerly served in the Armed Forces, including such families that have members of the Armed Forces who have had multiple deployments outside of the United States."

In addition, the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) have identified the following programmatic areas of emphasis. Applicants may propose to address one or more of these areas in response to this funding opportunity announcement:

o Emphasis 1: Improvements in maternal, child, and family health
o Emphasis 2: Effective implementation and expansion of evidence-based home visiting programs or systems with fidelity to the evidence-based model selected
o Emphasis 3: Development of statewide or multi-State home visiting programs
o Emphasis 4: Development of comprehensive early childhood systems that span the prenatal-through-age-eight continuum
o Emphasis 5: Outreach to high-risk and hard-to-engage populations
o Emphasis 6: Development of a family-centered approach to home visiting
o Emphasis 7: Outreach to families in rural or frontier areas
o Emphasis 8: The development of fiscal leveraging strategies to enhance program sustainability

For a more detailed description of each area of emphasis, please see Appendix A: MIECHV Programmatic Emphasis Areas.

Legislative Information

Social Security Act, Title V, §511 (42 U.S.C. §711), as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, §2951 (P.L. 111-148).

Expand Affordable Care Act - Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program

In my reading of the Constitution the Federal government does not have any police powers in side the territory of the states except on federal land.

This kind of law should not even be necessary. Any time a federal LEO wants to make an arrest he should have to go to a state judge and request a warrant be issued to Sheriff or State Trooper and accompany that LEO for an arrest.

I had a visit a couple of weeks ago right before school started from two eastern European guys trying to sell me education materials for my kids. From what it looked like to me they were cruising the neighborhood scooping out which houses had toys and such around the yard. I scared the $hit out of them because I was inside my shop when they knocked on my door I stepped out behind them and asked them their business. I cut them off and told them that whatever they were selling that we didn’t want any and they had best be on their way. Guy shook my hand and it was like shaking hands with a two year old kid. Made my skin crawl. Wife asked me why I didn’t invite them inside and I had to sit her down and explain to her about child abduction and slavery and the tactics they used to scope out peoples homes. She said I was just being paranoid. Sometimes the job of being a vigilant dad is a thankless one.

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