Obama Health Care plan...

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know if this is all true and if it is, what will this mean to us who

have CFS?. Are they going to want to force us to choose an end of life plan?

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The Obama plan will have devastating affect on the middle age and elderly,

if approved!

If you are not in that age bracket now, you will be some day.

First, the text of the bill at govtrack:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-3200

Now, a breakdown of some of the items:

• 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 treatments 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 (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules

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

• 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 controls productivity 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 resources,

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.

So no, you can't keep your current insurance, since the regs above make it

too burdensome for any employer or insurer (or medical practitioner) to bear the

insurance.

[Guest guest]

Before you start proclaiming the bill is safe, have you read the bill?

There is to much at stack to be proclaiming that it is " garbage " these people

have way to much to lose....READ IT..before stating things from a site that

may have an agenda...READ the dang Bill !

" There is no government committee " wrong, wrong, wrong.....read 425 on

Please people, I beseech you, don't take my word or anyone's else's word,

read it then decide.

There is no " government committee " proposed to decide who gets what

treatment. I can't take the time or energy to answer each one, but it's garbage

from what I see. Please don't believe it and don't send it to others.