An Updated List of What’s Really in the ObamaCare Bill

Family Security Matters ^ | 8-10-09 | The Editors

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August 10, 2009

An Updated List of What’s Really in the ObamaCare Bill

The Editors

Note: the page references below may change as the bill goes through changes. It is not final yet.

 

 • Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure.

 

 • Page 30: A federal government health care advisory committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)

 

 • Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer – they say in order to allow automated reconciliation with the related health care payment and remittance.

 

• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

 

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

 

• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

 

 • Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages for participating plans .

 

• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8 percent tax on payroll

 

• Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

 

• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).

 

• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

 

• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.

 

 • Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.

 

 • Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.

 

• Page 272: a review of cancer hospital payments will be undertaken and costs adjusted accordingly.  

 

 • Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.

 

 • Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.

 

 • Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.

 

 • Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

 

 • Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.

 

• Page 425: care provider must consult with government body regarding advanced care. More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?

 

 

 • Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. 

 

• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.

 

 • Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. This is an ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

 

• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services:

 

 • Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN?

 

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

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[TNdandelion]

• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

The unions get to keep their plans, too? Just like Congress?

[silverleaf]

Looks like we all need to sign up for ACORN

Imagine an army of “us” in ACORN :-)

[Ben Mugged]

The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer

Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising folks to open up electronic banking overseas that allows no access by US Government thugs but permits electronic transfer and electronic bill paying.

[musicman]

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[EggsAckley]

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Marked.

[Blogger]

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[McGruff]

This is great information. No wonder they don't want to post these things online but sneak them though in the middle of the night.

I thought this bill was like 1017 pages though?

[thackney]

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[fso301]

I thought this bill was like 1017 pages though?

It is. This is just part of an endless chain of copy-paste-recopy-repaste.

[TommyTrojan]

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[John Valentine]

I think that you can be sure that there is more to dig out of this dunghill.

[batter]

bookmark (thanks for putting this up!)

[smoothsailing]

It is.

They’re using a slight twist on an old tactic of “blind with brilliance, baffle with bullsh!t”.

Here’s the bill in it’s current form....

http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf

[NCBraveheart]

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[Quiller]

• Page 30: A federal government health care advisory committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)

The board will have up to 26 members, 9 of whom are "non-federal" employees appointed by the president, and up to 8 of whom are Federal employees, appointed by the president. The remaining 9 are to be appointed by the Comptroller General. Wonderful -- how many more 'czars' are we going to get out of THIS cluster -?

OBTW -- you missed pp. 41-43, where the bill establishes the Health Choices Commissioner as a cabinet-type position, with powers that combine the audit & 'compliance' powers of the IRS with the benefits determination powers of the Social Security Administration, and the power to determine who gets affordability credits and who doesn't.

The term 'commissioner' comes up in this bill 203 times, with many references to arbitrary power -- "as specified by the commissioner," "the commissioner shall determine," "established by the commissioner."

This guy would have more power than the chairman of the Fed.

• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

I'm not sure -- I think this is the gate where they'll dump the military retirees out of whatever insurance plan they have, and into the government (cess)pool.

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. • Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages for participating plans .

But, as with Medicare, the physician does not HAVE to accept the public fees as the total charge -- he can charge more, with the balance coming out of the victim's (oops, excuse me) patient's pocket. Any guess as to the primary languages, proficiencies, and probable sobriety of the doctors who will accept the government's rates?

• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8 percent tax on payroll

YEAH! $crew the ba$targs -- they succeed, so they MUST have oppressed the masses SOMEHOW!

Just this much is grounds for tossing the whole thing in file 13 and starting over. Anybody who voted for this monstrosity should be recalled. C

[jnsun]

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[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the additional info, Quiller.

This is a most insidious Rube Goldberg scheme that only the demented dwellers of a dark corner of Hades could conjure up to torment us all.