Posted on 07/15/2009 5:48:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington's coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
DeathCare brought to you by the Muslim Messiah and the US Congress and the MSM! If you’re over 60, kiss your rear goodbye.
All they want is power over your life and death.
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
Are you mad yet? Call, write, email NOW. Spread the word.
Text of an email that I just received:
“We truly are in the battle of our lives! Here are the facts on the new 1,018 page bill just released this afternoon. Unfortunately, it has all the bad ideas from previous versions, and more! For instance, there are new federal regulations on the rental of power-driven wheelchairs; new government rules on how providers are supposed to treat patients with dementia; and new regulations on smoking cessation, and everything in between.
In addition to the 1,000 pages of new federal regulations on health care, there are multiple taxes including in the bill because the government will need to raise more than $1 trillion to pay for these new regulations.
The bill creates a new government-run health plan that will undercut the private market pushing as many as 119 million people out of their private health insurance and be forced into a Medicaid-like plan. Employers will be pressed to drop their insurance benefits and send their employees over to the new government plan. This provision doesn’t apply to Members of Congress, who will be able to keep their health plan.
The bill will also create a new federal health board, a group of government bureaucrats that will decide whether your health care is effective or not, which could endanger your ability to receive the health care you need.
To pay for the new federal health board, there will be a new “fair share” tax imposed on everyone’s health insurance to raise $375 million needed for the new bureaucracy. The government has not yet decided what your portion will be.
As I previously wrote to you, there will be a new “tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage.” In other words, if your health insurance isn’t government-approved you will be taxed.”
Do you mind if I pass the letter on to my email list?
So companies would be best advised to discontinue their health-care plans immediately? To keep from being locked into providing it in the future, without any changes being allowed, after this becomes law?
MORE PING LISTS, PLEASE!
THIS is the federal government eliminating an industry. No more, no less.
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BTTT
They’re going to force it down our throats. If we gag or choke on it, that’s our problem..
Freedom died the day this man took office.
That picture seem to be more than appropriate, considering what we are heading to.
Here is the link to digg this article: http://digg.com/d1wwll
BTTT
i.e. Flexible Savings Accounts.
Some CPA's recommend them for small business as well. With a letter of need, they can be used for alternative care, (Not tax advice) although that is controversial.
My guess is they will kill this as well, since you would try to get out of the system to help yourself.
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New York's top income bracket could reach as high as 57 percent -- rates not seen in three decades -- to pay for the massive health coverage proposed by House Democrats this week.
Ahhh...
But you see, since the NY Post is a RIGHT-WING publication, this simply isn’t true, and can be ignored.
Or, as one KOS poster put it:
“Wasted away again in RupertMurdochville”
Basic Alinsky-Can’t question the FACTS, so you attack and disniss the source as biased. And sadly, the Dems have this down to a science now.
FACTS no longer matter in our media-centric world, just spin.
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