Gems from the Health Care Bill

• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming
law and later change it, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is
not available, you will be required to take the gov option!

• 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 (example: 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 doesn't' 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 patient 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: Government 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.