Posted on 08/09/2011 7:11:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They passed it, and now we are finding out what is in it. For over a year now experts have been painstakingly poring through the 2500+ pages of legislation and mandates created in The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590) and The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HR 4872) and the debate continues on whether to repeal or fix it. As the timeline rolls out for compliance over the next few years it will become increasingly clear that there are quite a few mandates thrown in that our representatives will deny having any knowledge of, since they did not read it! What we have seen so far from this disastrous monstrosity of legislation is that we and our physicians will be so tied up in bureaucracy; from mountains of paperwork, to bureaucrats getting in between our doctors and ourselves, to employers providing insurance that contains “minimum essential coverage” which has yet to be fully disclosed for their employees, to the policing of our coverage by the IRS to make sure we have purchased what the government deems to be acceptable health insurance coverage. Physicians will also be subject to fines for not providing care to their patients as dictated by a panel of bureaucrats.
The individual mandate in this bill is unprecedented in our history. The Cato Institute’s Michael D. Tanner has published a comprehensive analysis of this heath care reform bill in his much more readable 61 page Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law. He states that “what we are finding increasingly looks like it will leave Americans less healthy, less prosperous and less free.”
In his analysis he breaks down the timeline of what provisions will go into effect and when. Already implemented:
This week we discovered that, effective August 1, 2011, according to the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services “Under the Affordable Care Act, women’s preventive health care – such as mammograms, screenings for cervical cancer, prenatal care, and other services – is covered with no cost sharing for new health plans.” The list of services that are to be covered with no co-payare; well-woman visits, screening for gestational diabetes, human papillomavirus testing, counseling for sexually transmitted infections, screening and counseling for human immune-deficiency virus, contraceptive methods and counseling, breastfeeding support, supplies and counseling, and screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence. This will surely drive up the cost of health insurance premiums and cause more employers to opt out of providing coverage for their employees and pay the fines instead. The administration will vilify these corporations, calling them greedy, corporate jet-flying, profit-making millionaires and billionaires. It has structured the laws in such a way that in the long run it will be cheaper and involve less bureaucracy for corporations to opt out. Nationalized health care was the goal of this president and despite all of the opposition it is what we now have. Most Americans do not realize this yet, because of the extended timeline for the rollout of the various aspects of this bill.
The individual mandate takes effect in 2014. Failure to comply will result in a fine equal to 1% of income. Penalties increase to 2% in 2015, and 2.5% in 2016. The IRS will be able to withhold any tax refunds to pay these fines if you have not provided proof of acceptable insurance.
Michael D. Tanner states that “the combination of taxes and subsidies in this law results in a substantial redistribution of income” and “it is a tax and regulatory nightmare.” He also states “More than 2/3 of companies could be forced to change their current coverage.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has already granted over 1400 waivers to corporations. The first waiver should have invalidated the entire bill.
It’s hard to imagine the Founders heads not exploding if the thought of this much power being usurped by the federal Government ever crossing their mind.
Certainly they would never have agreed to any union. Of course none of the States would ever have agreed to the union had they known what would be done to them just 70 years later under the tyrant Lincoln.
The most serous threat to American liberty comes not from abroad but from Washington D.C.
I am unfortunately being moved ever more to the conclusion that Washington D.C. must be destroyed as a capital, that the head of this empire must be severed, its bureaucrats “removed”, and most importantly its army’s disbanded.
A defense Strategy must be formed and provided for at the local and State level to arrest the progress of this evil, including its agents.
If we are to deal with this monstrous threat we need to defang it as much as possible using what little remaining influence we have over it.
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks. Zerocare ping.
“The individual mandate takes effect in 2014. Failure to comply will result in a fine equal to 1% of income. Penalties increase to 2% in 2015, and 2.5% in 2016. The IRS will be able to withhold any tax refunds to pay these fines if you have not provided proof of acceptable insurance.”
What will they do if I don’t pay the fines and if I do not allow for enough witholdings to recieve a refund? Their next option will be to issue a warrant for my arrest. What if I don’t voluntarily turn myself in? Then I’m sure the law enforcement brigade (federalies?) will be sent to my door. What if I refuse to open it? Then they will of course be forced to kick it down....and finally, what if I fight back? Then they will shoot me.
The left is willing to kill citizens to make sure that those same people spend their hard earned income (private property) to purchase a privately sold product from another private entity.
What is the definition of fascism?
bfl
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