Posted on 03/21/2010 10:17:38 PM PDT by Teacher317
TOP 10 LIST WHATS WRONG WITH THE SENATE BILL
1. HIGHER PREMIUMS: If you pay for your own insurance, your premiums will cost 10% to 13% more than if the bill didnt pass (per CBO.) Insurance wont be more affordable. 60% of the newly insured are being enrolled in Medicaid (the public program for the poor.)
2. MANDATORY & COSTLY: Buying insurance will be mandatory. A family earning $54,000 will be expected to pay $9,000 (17% of pre-tax income) for the premium, co-pays and deductibles (per CBO.) If you dont enroll, the IRS will find you and penalize you (Senate bill, p. 345).
3. ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL HEALTH PLAN: Your benefit package will be prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services
Whether you pay for it yourself or qualify for a subsidy, your benefits are the same
.The goal is to discourage health consumption and differences based on ability to pay.
4. SIN TAX ON YOUR GENEROUS PLAN AT WORK: This is another equalizer to discourage some people from getting more than others. The Senate bill puts a 40% tax on Cadillac plans (p. 1,980). About one-fifth of employer-provided plans fall into that luxury category. The CBO predicts that employers will downgrade your coverage to avoid the tax or reduce your take home pay.
5. GOVERNMENT WILL CONTROL YOUR DOCTORS DECISIONS: The Senate bill bars doctors from participating in the private insurance system unless they implement the HHS regulations (p. 149).
6. HOSPITALS CLOSED TO SENIORS: The House and Senate bills slash payments to hospitals and other institutions that care for seniors. The chief actuary for Medicare, Richard Foster, warns that cuts in the House bill are so severe that some institutions may face severe losses or end their participation in Medicare (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 11/13/09 report). (see Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16)
7. BARE-BONES HOSPITAL CARE: Patients of all ages (and all incomes) will suffer when hospitals are in financial distress. Hospital budget cuts will mean shortages of nurses, equipment and cleaning staff.
8. FUTURE MEDICARE CUTS: The Senate bill establishes an Independent Medicare Advisory Commission to make automatic spending reductions
You wont get as much care as people in Medicare currently get.
9. NEW SOCIAL AGENDA: Money is allocated for adult preparation activities, including lessons on positive self-esteem and relationship dynamics, friendships, dating (and) romantic involvement (Senate bill, p.612). There are also giveaways to immigrants. The Senate bill hands low-income legal immigrants government subsidies as soon as they get here, instead of waiting the five years Medicaid requires (Senate bill, p. 274).
10. YOUR MEDICAL DATA NOT PRIVATE: What happens in your doctors office must be recorded in an electronic data base that can send the information to insurers and other medical offices (Senate bill, p. 62-66). (see UKs medical records go online without patients consent)
So far, just the 'bribes' or 'reconciliation' bill.
The traitors demanded payment, in writing. They were fighting over the details of the bribes, up until the very last minute.
The 'game' is to get the public stirred up watching the fight over the bribes, and let the actual 'flawed' health care bill slowly move it's way on through.
It would probably be a good start if you 'claimed' that on your CENSUS FORM.
That way you have some 'proof'.
Dude this is like some bad science fiction... I really want to go out to the coast and pray for our country. Wow.
The following was taken from another thread and sent out in my email.
Now that ObamaCare has become law, it is time to begin discovering what is in it. David Hogberg begins the process at Investors Business Daily.
1. You are young and dont want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Sorry. You have to pay $750 annually for the privilege. (Section 1501)
2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Sorry. Youll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. Thats because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a persons health status. (Section 2701).
3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Sorry. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711).
4. Think youd like a policy that is cheaper because it doesnt cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Sorry. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer policies that do not cover preventive services or offer them with cost-sharing, even if thats what the customer wants. (Section 2712).
5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesnt allow your employers slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Uh Uh. (Section 2714).
6. You must buy a policy that covers ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services; chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
Youre a single guy without children? Tough, your policy must cover pediatric services. Youre a woman who cant have children? Tough, your policy must cover maternity services. Youre a teetotaler? Tough, your policy must cover substance abuse treatment. (Add your own violation of personal freedom here.) (Section 1302).
7. Do you want a plan with lots of cost-sharing and low premiums? Well, the best you can do is a Bronze plan, which has benefits that provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60% of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan. Anything lower than that, nope. (Section 1302 (d) (1) (A))
8. You are an employer in the small-group insurance market and youd like to offer policies with deductibles higher than $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for families? Uh uh. (Section 1302 (c) (2) (A).
9. If you are a large employer (defined as at least 101 employees) and you do not want to provide health insurance to your employee, then you will pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to $3,000 under the reconciliation changes). Think you know how to better spend that money? Ha. (Section 1513).
10. You are an employer who offers health flexible spending arrangements and your employees want to deduct more than $2,500 from their salaries for it? Sorry, cant do that. (Section 9005 (i)).
The government will extract a fee of $2.3 billion annually from the pharmaceutical industry. If you are a pharmaceutical company what you will pay depends on the ratio of the number of brand-name drugs you sell to the total number of brand-name drugs sold in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the brand-name drugs in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2.3 billion, or $230,000,000. (Under reconciliation, it starts at $2.55 billion, jumps to $3 billion in 2012, then to $3.5 billion in 2017 and $4.2 billion in 2018, before settling at $2.8 billion in 2019 (Section 1404)). Think you, as a pharmaceutical executive, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 9008 (b)).
The government will extract a fee of $2 billion annually from medical device makers. If you are a medical device maker what you will pay depends on your share of medical device sales in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the medical devices in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2 billion, or $200,000,000. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for R&D? Tough. (Section 9009 (b)).
The reconciliation package turns that into a 2.9% excise tax for medical device makers. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 1405).
The government will extract a fee of $6.7 billion annually from insurance companies. If you are an insurer, what you will pay depends on your share of net premiums plus 200% of your administrative costs. So, if your net premiums and administrative costs are equal to 10% of the total, you will pay 10% of $6.7 billion, or $670,000,000. In the reconciliation bill, the fee will start at $8 billion in 2014, $11.3 billion in 2015, $1.9 billion in 2017, and $14.3 billion in 2018 (Section 1406).Think you, as an insurance executive, know how to better spend that money? Tough.(Section 9010 (b) (1) (A and B).
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Here’s the link to the thread for the previous post.
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