Posted on 10/30/2009 6:20:36 PM PDT by mystery-ak
Reading Guide to the Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill Mike Pence's Notes
Reading Guide to the Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill Yesterday at 3:35pm
Please read and forward the link to this note ( http://bit.ly/1rGrpW ) to your friends and family. This reading guide includes what we have uncovered in our initial reading of the Pelosi health “reform” legislation (H.R. 3962) introduced by House Democrats.
Page 94—Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government
Page 110—Section 222(e) requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan—and, if the Hyde Amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund elective abortions
Page 111—Section 223 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the “Health Benefits Advisory Committee”) to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase —and would likely require all Americans to subsidize and purchase plans that cover any abortion
Page 211—Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage
Page 225—Section 330 permits—but does not require—Members of Congress to enroll in government-run health care
Page 255—Section 345 includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies under the bill—while the bill includes a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify applicants’ identity, thus encouraging identity fraud for undocumented immigrants and others wishing to receive taxpayer-subsidized health benefits
Page 297—Section 501 imposes a 2.5 percent tax on all individuals who do not purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health insurance— the tax would apply on individuals with incomes under $250,000, thus breaking a central promise of then-Senator Obama’s presidential campaign
Page 313—Section 512 imposes an 8 percent “tax on jobs” for firms that cannot afford to purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health coverage ; according to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Baicker, such a tax would place millions “at substantial risk of unemployment”—with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts
Page 336—Section 551 imposes additional job-killing taxes, in the form of a half-trillion dollar “surcharge,” more than half of which will hit small businesses ; according to a model developed by President Obama’s senior economic advisor, such taxes could cost up to 5.5 million jobs
Page 520—Section 1161 cuts more than $150 billion from Medicare Advantage plans, potentially jeopardizing millions of seniors’ existing coverage
Page 733—Section 1401 establishes a new Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research; the bill includes no provisions preventing the government-run health plan from using such research to deny access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds, similar to Britain’s National Health Service, which denies patient treatments costing more than $35,000
Page 1174—Section 1802(b) includes provisions entitled “TAXES ON CERTAIN INSURANCE POLICIES” to fund comparative effectiveness research, breaking Speaker Pelosi’s promise that “We will not be taxing [health] benefits in any bill that passes the House,” and the President’s promise not to raise taxes on families with incomes under $250,000
Yes, he did, so the news is getting out there.
Meanwhile, King Othuggo and his merry band of Marxist thugs are still out there saying, “If you like the plan you have now, you can keep it.”
These are an excessively evil lying bunch of low-life scum-bags, who have to look up to see the gutter.
So what will the people do?
Well, get this out...send it to everyone you know.
BTTT
does he support Hoffman yet?
His silence on NY-23 has been very disappointing.
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>So what will the people do?
I vote for shoot people and break things.
Go to sleep as usual.
“Section 512 imposes an 8 percent “tax on jobs” for firms that cannot afford to purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health coverage ; according to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Baicker, such a tax would place millions “at substantial risk of unemployment”—with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts”
Interesting. This works out to rather less than my firm now pays for a high deductible, HSA qualified health plan.
rather than shoot things and break people?
>rather than shoot things and break people?
Actually that may be fun, especially with all the “torture” document that came out... and it’d be nice to utterly crush the hopes and dreams of the current Execuitive branch, most of Congress, and the USSC for good measure!
btt
bttt
Obama's going to do the same with the Democrats thing ~ it may differ from what he promised but he'll say "I know it's unconstitutional but this will shut them up".
Presidents think this way
bookmark.
bumping again
Bump
Unfriggin’ believable! But then again, probably not, since it is well known that the inmates are running the asylum.
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