ObamaCare a Trojan Horse

The fight over ObamaCare reminds me of the story of the guard at a Soviet plant. Every night one worker would leave the plant pushing a wheel barrow full of dirt. The guard meticulously searched the dirt, but never found anything. After the fall of the communist regime, the guard saw the worker in coffee shop and asked "I know you had to be stealing something. Now we are both retired, tell me, what was it?"

It isn't enough to shift through the details of the ObamaCare bill; we need to look at the delivery model.

I have spent my weekend reading through the massive health care bill. I must admit I haven't read it all but what I have read was enough to convince me that this would be a disaster. It is not simply because individual elements are bad. It is bad because it will put in place a massive federal bureaucracy dedicated to overseeing every aspect of our lives. There will be government control everywhere.

Of course, pieces of it are particularly troubling. For example, on page 936 it calls for "Identification of health disparities in prevention and wellness." And on page 973 it calls for "collection of data regarding the Nation's health and performance of Nation's health care," by "race, ethnicity, primary language, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, ... and any other population or subpopulation as determined appropriate by the Secretary." We know what the government does with such data. Since it is statistically inevitable that they will find disparities, they will feel empowered to push for quotas and affirmative action. Such data will feed lawsuits.

The bill assures us that experts will be gathered to oversee and administer the whole thing, to decide on "best practices," to improve prevention. The problem is that this will create a massive new entitlement program - not simply an entitlement for health care, but an entitlement for the government bureaucrats who run the program, who do the studies, who collect the data, who try to eliminate "disparities."

We know from experience how difficult it is to fire a government worker or close a government program. Once these people get their hands into the public till they are not about to take them out. They will organize. Their unions will lobby for higher wages and more benefits. As sure as weeds grow, unions want to increase their power base by increasing the number of government employees.

All this will mean more money from the people's pockets, more debt for the nation. The unions will fight any cuts - pretending to the public that every cut in their budgets is a cut in services to clients, when in fact real cuts would target superfluous workers and worthless programs. Government workers' unions have the politicians under their thumbs and no cuts will be made. The programs will grow and grow. One has only to look at England, where the health care bureaucracy is now the third largest employer in the world after the Chinese Red Army and Indian railroad.

We who oppose this plan cannot allow ourselves to be fooled by small compromises or the elimination of the most offensive aspects of the program. Everyone needs to understand the way the far left works. First, they propose legislation that is a liberal wish list, hence the 1,000-plus pages. They throw every radical agenda item into the mix, knowing that the most extreme will draw fire. The most objectionable are almost always shot down, but in the process the opposition expends all its ammunition and the bulk of the radical agenda passes through unscathed.

What is worse, even if things like abortion funding are specifically prohibited, what is to prevent a judge from deciding later on that these must be included because once you grant a universal right to health care, you have no defense against other made-up rights?

ObamaCare is a Trojan horse. It may look like a gift, but break down the gates to let it into our city and our defenses will be irreparable destroyed. It is not enough to stop pieces of it or reform it, the whole idea of government health care must be rejected. We can't afford it.

Dale O'Leary of Avon Park is a writer and lecturer and author of "The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality and One Man, One Woman."

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Little Gems From the Obama Health Care Bill
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the gov option!
• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatmen ts and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)
• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government=2 0rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• 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.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll <>BR • Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt' 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 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
• Page 265: Government mandates and controls20productivity for private healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• 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 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• 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 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone). • Page 425: 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. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resource s, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• 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. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

Listed above are some of Obama's "Changes"

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