U.S. House Health Care Plan Bill (pdf of 1,990 bill)

United States House of Representatives ^ | October 29, 2009 | 11th Congress

[MaestroLC]

This is the official pdf from the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled by Nancy Pelosi today.

It is 1,990 pages.

[MaestroLC]

Read and dissect...

[La Lydia]

Time to start calling our Congressweasels to insist that they read the entire document before voting on it.

[Cheetahcat]

They vote for what??? it is illegal screw them.

[Marty62]

Interesting that the cabal refused to give the location for the doc.
Knew FR would have the link.
Thank You sir/madam!

[NautiNurse]

Whew—I thought “1,990 bill” was new jargon for $1.9 Trillion.

[444Flyer]

Has anybody looked into what will happen to legitimate malpractice suits under Obamacare? Good luck suing the Government for taking out one of your kidneys rather than your tonsils.

[wastedyears]

I bet Rush has a couple of people reading as much of this as they can. I know Glenn is going to start on it tonight too.

[nutmeg]

Why doesn’t it have a number assigned to it yet? H.R.____

[b4its2late]

An easy way to email all your reps... Free Our Healthcare Now

I also heard a bunch of seniors were arrested at Pelosi's conference for protesting her. It was all roped off and sealed.

[nutmeg]

Listening to Jim Vicevich, our local (Hartford, CT) conservative talk radio host now... he says there’s a public option in it (surprise!) and tax hikes on those making $500,000+. That’s all I know so far...

[frogjerk]

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(h) FUNDING; TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.— (1) IN GENERAL.—There is appropriated to the Secretary, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $5,000,000,000 to pay claims against (and administrative costs of) the high-risk pool under this section in excess of the premiums collected with respect to eligible individuals enrolled in the high-risk pool. Such funds shall be available without fiscal year limitation.

(2) INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.—If the Secretary estimates for any fiscal year that the aggregate amounts available for payment of expenses of the high-risk pool will be less than the amount of the ex-penses, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or establishing waiting lists.

[RedCell]

Ping (for when I get my law degree)

[DonaldC]

Well, having a high risk pool is more than many high risk folks have now.

[MaestroLC]

Pg. 337...

‘‘SEC. 59C. SURCHARGE ON HIGH INCOME INDIVIDUALS.

‘‘(a) GENERAL RULE.—In the case of a taxpayer other than a corporation, there is hereby imposed (in addition to any other tax imposed by this subtitle) a tax equal to 5.4 percent of so much of the modified adjusted gross income of the taxpayer as exceeds $1,000,000.

‘‘(b) TAXPAYERS NOT MAKING A JOINT RETURN.— In the case of any taxpayer other than a taxpayer making a joint return under section 6013 or a surviving spouse (as defined in section 2(a)), subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting ‘$500,000’ for ‘$1,000,000’.

‘‘(c) MODIFIED ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘modified adjusted gross income’ means adjusted gross income reduced by any deduction (not taken into account in determining adjusted gross income) allowed for investment interest (as defined in section 163(d)). In the case of an estate or trust, adjusted gross income shall be determined as provided in section 67(e).

‘‘(d) SPECIAL RULES.— (1) NONRESIDENT ALIEN.—In the case of a nonresident alien individual, only amounts taken into account in connection with the tax imposed under section 871(b) shall be taken into account under this section.

(snip)

(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2010.

SEC. 552. EXCISE TAX ON MEDICAL DEVICES.

‘‘SEC. 4061. MEDICAL DEVICES.

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There is hereby imposed on the first taxable sale of any medical device a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the price for which so sold.

‘‘(b) FIRST TAXABLE SALE.—For purposes of this section—

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘first taxable sale’ means the first sale, for a purpose other than for resale, after production, manufacture, or importation.

[frogjerk]

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(2) INDIVIDUAL HEALTH MARKET.—Section 2742 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg–42) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(f) RESCISSION.—A health insurance issuer may rescind individual health insurance coverage only upon clear and convincing evidence of fraud described in subsection (b)(2), under procedures that provide for independent, external third-party review.’’.

Is this third party ACORN?

[w1andsodidwe]

tax hikes on those making $500,000+. That’s all I know so far...

If the pay czar has his way no one will qualify for this tax.

[frogjerk]

‘‘(b) QUALIFIED CHILD DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘qualified child’ means, with respect to a partici pant in a group health plan or group health insurance cov21 erage, an individual who (but for age) would be treated as a dependent child of the participant under such plan or coverage and who— ‘‘
(1) is under 27 years of age; and
(2) is not enrolled as a participant, beneficiary, or enrollee (other than under this section, section 2746, or section 704 of the Employee Retire2 ment Income Security Act of 1974) under any health insurance coverage or group health plan.

Under 27 years of age seems pretty old to be a dependent child.

[An Old Man]

You probably will want to locat section 501 and begin there.

It contains some really great stuff shuch as:

Subpart A—Tax on Individuals Without Acceptable Health Care Coverage

Howabout 2.5% of your adjusted gross income for starters?

[SMARTY]

“Childhood” is prolonged as far as possible, so that ‘children’ are eligible for more and more taxpayer funded goodies. See?

[frogjerk]

(3) COVERAGE UNDER PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION.
—The public health insurance option shall provide coverage for services described in para graph (4)(B). Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing for or prohibiting coverage of serv ices described in paragraph
(4)(A).
(4) ABORTION SERVICES.—
(A) ABORTIONS FOR WHICH PUBLIC FUND ING IS PROHIBITED.
—The services described in this subparagraph are abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is not permitted, based on the law as in effect as of the date that is 6 months before the beginning of the plan year involved.
(B) ABORTIONS FOR WHICH PUBLIC FUNDING IS ALLOWED.
—The services described in this subparagraph are abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted, based on the law as in effect as of the date that is 6 months before the begin ning of the plan year involved.

Public funding of abortion will be allowed and a section is set aside for it.