ObamaCare?
Subject: some items in the Obamacare bill
• 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.