Posted on 08/09/2009 9:13:53 PM PDT by hoosiermama
I just received a summary of the first five hundred pages of the health care bill. Here are some highlights.
Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure.
Page 29: First reference to rationing
Page 30: The Health Benefits Advisory Committee will be created to monitor and recommend health care treatments and benefits
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with health insurance.
Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard and the government is granted REAL TIME access to YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange
Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange
Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No judicial review is permitted against the government monopoly.
Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer health insurance, pays an 8% tax on payrol
Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer health insurance, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
Page 167: Any individual who doesnt have acceptable health insurance (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes
Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.
Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected
Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
Page 270: Requires that Ambulatory Surgical Centers submit cost data to the Secretary of Health and Humans Services for analysis.
Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures, cost effectiveness which eventually means rationing
Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc
Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
Page 379: Creation of the Telehealth Advisory Committee
Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources,
Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment
Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patients health deteriorates.
Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy.
Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
PLEASE HELP DISTRIBUTE: (send to other freepers, email, make flyers and hand out a meetings)
Does emailer unknown mean unknown or does it mean source redacted, as in for privacy purposes, or what?
Placemark
We can leaflet all we want but liberals will only hear “Free Healthcare”. Luckily, if the demoncrats push this through, they’ll be trounced easily in 2010 and this system can be dismantled before permanent damage is done.
big bump
Not saying there was a virus or anything just saying I didn't trust it.
privacy
Yeah, just like Roe v.Wade, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, Title IX, Fed Welfare programs, the Income Tax, etc. etc. etc.
Need I go on?
You sending the Clif-Notes to Obama?
Maybe time to start planning to go Galt. Ooops, please don’t “flag” me.
Thank you.
Didn’t have a source linked....BUT thanks for linking the entire bill.
Maybe we can do the last 500 pages. We could break it up and do fifty pages each. Only ten freepers needed.
If interested claim your pages and report back in on this thread.
I will do Pg 100 thru 150.
LOL. That along with an herbal viagra email, a crop circle site and an article about transmigration of electrons in VLSI semiconductors.
Start with 500-550
This does the first 500 pages we need something for 500-1100.
Maybe we can do the last 500 pages of the bill. First 500 pages have been distributed in email. We could break the last pages up and do fifty pages each. Only ten freepers needed.
If interested claim your pages and report back in on this thread.
Entire bill posted here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2312304/posts?page=7
I will delay then.
Mark for later.
I searched the pdf and I cannot make sense of the text, relating to your page numbers. Is there a pdf file available that is searchable by page number to the text you refer to above. This link is to the file I searched.
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090714/aahca.pdf
This is great info, I am not very familiar with legal jargon.
Thank You! This is exactly what I was looking for.
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