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[QUOTE]Originally posted by a surfer: [QB] At least somebody has read part of it even if congress hasn't. > *Subject:* A few highlights from the first 500 pages of the Healthcare bill in congress...> > Contact your Representatives and let them know how you feel about this. We, as a country, cannot afford another 1000 page bill to go through congress without being read. Another 500 pages to go. I have highlighted a few 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) > 8 0 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 plans20(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 pr ice-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 specialty 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 gov ernment 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=2 0orders 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. > > [/QB][/QUOTE]
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