TOO MUCH TO READ?

I know...it was a lot to read.

Two posts ago I provided you with a link to the actual proposed health care bill...the Congress' version.

As I plodded my way through it, I realized why so many congresspersons have not read it.

Aside from the fact that it is written in Congressese, and thus as boring as a Bark Beetle, it is also longer than the attention span of the average congressperson, which is slightly under seven-tenths of a second.

So, as a public service, I have distilled the bill's main areas of concern into the following "short" article.

If you get tired reading this, imagine what reading the whole bill was like.


Some of the items in the Health Care Plan now in the works:

The bill mandates that the government will audit the books of all employers that self insure!!

There will be a government committee that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

Health care will be rationed! You can only get so much "care" per year.

The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your health care benefits for you. You have no choice!

Health care will be provided to non-United States citizens, illegal or otherwise.

Government will have real-time access to individuals’ finances & a National ID health card will be issued!

The government will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer.

Section 164 is a payoff; a subsidized plan for retirees and their families that are in unions & community organizations (ACORN).

The government will create a health care exchange to bring private health care plans under Government control.

In Sec 203 of the bill, the government mandates ALL benefit packages for private health care plans in the Exchange

The Government will ration your health care!

The government will mandate "linguistic appropriate services," for example it will mandate that someone in the doctor’s office be able to translation for illegal aliens, regardless of language group.

The Government will use groups like ACORN and AmeriCorps to sign up individuals for the government health care plan.

Are you an AARP member? Your Health care WILL be rationed in spite of the fact that AARP has been one of the heaviest lobbying groups for the plan.

A Medicaid Eligible Individual will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid, with no choice to opt out.


No company will be able to sue the government on such matters as price fixing.

There will be no "judicial review" against the government’s monopoly on health care.


Doctors will be told what they can earn.

The bill provides that an employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan.

Employers will be required pay for health care for part time employees AND their families.

Any employer with a payroll of $400k & above that does not provide the "public option" will pay an 8% additional payroll tax.

Businesses with a payroll between $251k & $400k that don’t provide the "public option" will pay 2-6% tax on all payroll.

Any individual who doesn’t have acceptable health care, according to government specifications, will be surtaxed at 2.5%

Under the plan, any nonresident alien is exempt from individual taxes. (You and I will pay for them).

Officers & employees of the Health Care Administration will have access to ALL Americans’ financial and personal records.

Page 203 Line 14-15 provides that "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax."

According to the health care bill, the government will reduce physician services for Medicaid, Seniors and low income families.

The plan provides that the government will set the value of a doctor’s time, professional judgments, etc.

The government will mandate & control productivity for private health care industries.

Under the proposed bill, the government will regulate the rental and purchase of power driven wheelchairs and other medical accessories.

According to Section 1145, the treatment of certain cancers will be rationed or disallowed.

Sec 1151 provides that the government will penalize hospitals for what the government deems to be "Preventable Admissions."

Pg 317 L 13-20 describes certain prohibitions on doctors’ ownership and investments.

There is a government prohibition on expansion of hospitals without prior governmental approval.


Hospitals will have the option to apply for exception but community input is required. (Can you say ACORN?)

The government will mandate the establishment of "outcome based" measures for determining treatment according to their charts.


Under the proposed legislation, the government will have the authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc. eventually forcing everybody into the government plan.

The health care bill provides that the government will restrict the enrollment of "special needs’ persons into the plan, and in fact refers specifically to "retarded" persons.

The bill requires the government to create specific bureaucracies such as: The Telehealth Advisory Committee, health care by phone.

The government will mandate "Advance Care Planning Consultation" dealing with senior citizens’ end of life.


Seniors will be interviewed every year for health issues and decisions made as to what care they can or can't receive.

The government, under the health care bill, will instruct and consult citizens regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney.

Government bureaucracies will provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding citizen to and in death.

Under the bill, the government will mandate a program for orders for end of life.

An "advanced care planning consult" will be used as patients’ health deteriorates.

That "advanced. care consultation" may include a governmental order for end of life plans.

Certain doctors will be granted the ability to write an end of life order.

The government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.

The government will make monthly payments to community-based organizations, chief of which is ACORN.

The government will cover and "assist in directing" marriage and family therapy.

Under the plan, the government will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, and rationing those services.

Well, that's all there is to it.

So what part of it do you like best?