That was one powerful and effective Bray! Thank you.
• P 16: If you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option!
• P 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• P 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed! An admission that health care will be rationed under this new plan.
• P 30, it says that a government committee will be established to decide what treatments and benefits we’ll get. However, there will be no process to appeal their decisions, as is now the case with private insurance plans.
• P 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (there will be no appeals process)
• P 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• P 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
• P 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• P 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. This includes access to all individual bank accounts for health-related electronic funds transfers.
• P 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree & community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• P 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• P 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• P 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens
• P 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• P 124: No one can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against a gov’t monopoly.
• 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.
• P 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages The government will set wages for physicians.
• P 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• P 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
• P 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% penalty tax on payroll. (goes a long way towards destroying the private system). Violates Pres. Obama’s campaign promises).
• P 150: Any employer w/payroll of $250K-400K or more who does not offer the public option pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• P 167: Any individual who doesn’t’ have acceptable healthcare (according to government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• P 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
• P 195: Officers/employees of Gov’t Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial/personal records.
• P 203: Very strange sentence: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax imposed by this chapter for purposes of determining the amount of any credit under this chapter.” “Tax” by some other name means it is no longer a tax.
• P 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”
• P 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• P 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.
• P 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
• P 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
• P 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing! Has some of the most esoteric language of the health care bill. However, it looks like the government plans to ration health care for cancer patients.
• P 280, it says that hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems to be “preventable re-admissions.” How is the government in a better position (than a health care professional) to determine what constitutes a “preventable re-admission“? Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
• P 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you’ll be penalized by gov’t.
• P 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!
• P 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
• P 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• P 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
• P 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
• P 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• P 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
• P 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia? Government will instruct/consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Locks in estate taxes ahead of time. Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
• P 427: Government mandates program ordering end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• P 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.
• P 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
• P 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• P 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• P 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
• P 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
• P 503 Lines 13-19 Gov't will build registries and data networks from YOUR electronic med records.
• P 506 Lines 19-21 The Center will recommend policies that would allow for public access of data.
• P 518 Lines 21-25 The Commission will have input from HC consumer reps – Can u say unions & ACORN?
• P 621 Lines 20-25 Gov’t will define what Quality means in HC. Since when does Gov’t know about quality?
• P 624 “Quality” measures shall b designed to profile u including race, age, gender, place of residence, etc
• P 630 9-24/631 1-9 Those Multi-stake holder groups incl. Unions & groups like ACORN deciding HC quality.
• P 633-634 1-9 Secretary may issue non-endorsed “Qualitative Measures” for Physician Services & Dialysis Services.
• P 635 to 653 Physicians Payments Sunshine Provision – Gov’t wants to shine sunlight on Docs but not Govt.
• P 660-671 Doctors in Residency – Gov’t will tell you where your residency will be, thus where you’ll live.
• P 676-686 Gov’t will regulate hospitals in EVERY aspect of residency programs, incl. teaching hospitals.
• P 711 Lines 8-14 Secretary has broad powers to deny HC providers/suppliers admittance into HC Exchange.
• P 719-720 Sec 1637 ANY Doctor ordering durable med equip/home med services MUST be enrolled in Medicare.
• P 735 lines 16-25 For law enforcement: proposes the Secretary-HHS give Atty General access to ALL data.
• P 757-762 Fed Gov't will shift burden of payments 2 Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) 2 States. (Taxes)
• P 768 Sec 1713 Gov’t – Nurse Home Visitation Services (Hello union paybacks)
• P 769 3-5 Nurse Home Visit Services – “increasing birth intervals between pregnancies.” Gov’t Abortions?
• P 770 SEC 1714 Fed Gov’t mandates eligibility 4 State Family Planning Services. Say abortion & State Sovereign.
• P 789-797 Gov’t will set, mandate drug prices, controlling which drugs brought to market. Bye innovation
• P 801 Sec 1751 The Gov’t will decide which Health care conditions will be paid. Say RATION!
• P 810 SEC. 1759. Billing Agents, clearinghouses, etc req. 2 register. Gov’t takes over private payment sys.
• P 829-833 Gov’t will impose a fee on ALL private health ins. plans incl. self insured to pay for Trust Fund!
• P 838-840 Gov’t will design & implement home Visitation Program, families w young kids/families expect kids.
• P 844-845 Home Visitation Program includes Gov’t coming into your house & telling you how to parent
• P 859 Gov’t will establish a Public Health Fund at a cost of $88,800,000,000. Yes, that’s Billion.
• P 865 The Gov’t will MANDATE the establishment of a National Health Service Corps
• P 865 to 876 The NHS Corps is a program where Drs. perform mandatory HC for 2yrs for part loan repayment
• P 876-892 The Gov’t takes over the education of our Medical students and Drs
• P 898 Gov’t will establish a Public Health Workforce Corps, to ensure supply of public health professionals.
• P 898 The Public health workforce corps shall consist of civilian employees of the U.S. as Secretary deems.
• P 900 The Public Health Workforce Corps includes veterinarians
• P 901 The Public Health Workforce Corps WILL include commissioned Regular & Reserve Officers. HC Draft?
• P 910 The Gov’t will develop, build & run Public Health Training Centers.
• P 913-914 Gov’t starts a HC affirmative action program thru guise of diversity scholarships.
• P 915 SEC. 2251. Gov’t MANDATES Cultural & linguistic competency training for Health Care professionals.
• P 932 The Gov’t will establish Preventive & Wellness Trust fund- initial cost of $30,800,000,000-Billion
• P 936 Gov’t will develop “Healthy People & National Public Health Perform. Standards” Tell me what to eat?
• P 942 Lines 22-25 More Gov’t. Offices of Surg. Gen. -Public Health Svc, Minority Health, Women’s Health
• P 993 Gov’t will establish school based health clinics. Your kids won’t have a chance.
• P 994 School Based Health Clinic will be integrated into the school environment. Say GOVT Brainwash!
• P 1001 The Gov’t will establish a National Medical Device Registry. Will u be tracked?
• P 1003 9-11 National Med Dev Reg ‘‘(iii) other post market device surveillance activities” You’ll be tracked.