America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
As usual the title is a lie and of course the "for other purposes" bit means that they plan on throwing in all kinds of nonsense.
Here is a link at the opencongress.org website. I suggest you spend a little time reading it.
Here is a link to a pdf copy. Peter Fleckman put some comments about it on twitter and someone emailed them to me so I'll just post them. I haven't verified all of them but I scanned through and checked some and they mostly seemed to be correct. Here you go:
Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERSDo you like what you see? Not that it really matters because I suspect we will get a good bit of this soon whether we want it or not. We'll probably get the rest of it soon after.
that self insure!!
Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides
what treatments/benes u get
Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill – YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!!
Pg 42 of HC Bill – The Health Choices Commissioner will choose UR HC
Benefits 4 you. U have no choice!
PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill – HC will be provided 2 ALL non US
citizens, illegal or otherwise
Pg 58HC Bill – Govt will have real-time access 2 individuals’ finances &
a National ID Healthcard will be issued!
Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Govt will have direct access 2 ur banks accts
4 elect. funds transfer
PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan 4 retirees and their families
in Unions & community orgs (ACORN).
Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Govt is creating an HC Exchange 2 bring priv HC plans
under Govt control.
PG 84 Sec 203 HC bill – Govt mandates ALL benefit pkgs 4 priv. HC plans
in the Exchange
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill – Specs for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt
will ration ur Healthcare!
PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill – Govt mandates linguistic approp svcs. Example
– Translation 4 illegal aliens
Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN &
Americorps 2 sign up indiv. for Govt HC plan
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill – Specs of Ben Levels 4 Plans. #AARP members – U
Health care WILL b rationed
-PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill – Medicaid Eligible Indiv. will b
automat.enrolled in Medicaid. No choice
pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No
“judicial review” against Govt Monop
pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill – Doctors/ #AMA – The Govt will tell YOU what
u can make.
Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into pub opt
plan. NO CHOICE
Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay 4 HC 4 part time employees AND
their families.
Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Emplyr w payroll 400k & above who does not prov.
pub opt. pays 8% tax on all payroll
pg 150 Lines 9-13 Biz w payroll btw 251k & 400k who doesnt prov. pub.
opt pays 2-6% tax on all payroll
Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesnt have acceptable HC accrdng
2 Govt will be taxed 2.5% of inc
Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from indiv.
taxes. (Americans will pay)
Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access
2 ALL Americans finan/pers recs
PG 203 Line 14-15 HC – “The tax imposed under this section shall not be
treated as tax” Yes, it says that
Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Govt will reduce physician svcs 4 Medicaid.
Seniors, low income, poor affected
Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill – Doctors, doesnt matter what specialty u have,
you’ll all be paid the same
PG 253 Line 10-18 Govt sets value of Dr’s time, prof judg, etc.
Literally value of humans.
PG 265 Sec 1131Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC
industries
PG 268 Sec 1141 Fed Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven
wheelchairs
PG 272 SEC. 1145. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS – Cancer
patients – welcome to rationing!
Page 280 Sec 1151 The Govt will penalize hospitals 4 what Govt deems
preventable readmissions.
Pg 298 Lines 9-11 Drs, treat a patient during initial admiss that
results in a readmiss-Govt will penalize u.
Pg 317 L 13-20 OMG!! PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells
Drs. what/how much they can own.
Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating
hospitals cannot expand
pg 321 2-13 Hospitals have oppt to apply for exception BUT community
input required. Can u say ACORN?!!
Pg335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339 – Govt mandates estab. of outcome based
measures. HC the way they want. Rationing
Pg 341 Lines 3-9 Govt has authority 2 disqual Medicare Adv Plans, HMOs,
etc. Forcing peeps in2 Govt plan
Pg 354 Sec 1177 – Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs ppl!
WTF. My sis has down syndrome!!
Pg 379 Sec 1191 Govt creates more bureaucracy – Telehealth Advisory
Cmtte. Can u say HC by phone?
PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think
Senior Citizens end of life
Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills,
durable powers of atty. Mandatory!
PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides apprvd list of end of
life resources, guiding u in death
PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program 4 orders 4 end of life. The
Govt has a say in how ur life ends
Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An “adv. care planning consult” will b used frequently
as patients health deteriorates
PG 429 Lines 10-12 “adv. care consultation” may incl an ORDER 4 end of
life plans. AN ORDER from GOV
Pg 429 Lines 13-25 – The govt will specify which Doctors can write an
end of life order.
PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment u will
have at end of life
Pg 469 – Community Based Home Medical Services=Non profit orgs. Hello,
ACORN Medical Svcs here!!?
Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORG. 1 monthly payment 2
a community-based org. Like ACORN?
PG 489 Sec 1308 The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which
means they will insert Govt in2 ur marriage
Pg 494-498 Govt will cover Mental Health Svcs including defining,
creating, rationing those svcs
People wanted change and we're going to get it good and hard.
3 comments:
The Obugger steamroller is slowing down and if this trend continues until the end of the year, we may see positive movement in 2010(off year elections) the blue dogs are nerveous and rightly so.
Thanks for posting this, Bitmap. I've been looking for a copy in pdf so I could peruse it at will. What a freaking nightmare of a bill...
I'm sure they'll figure out how to sneak it in there somewhere, but the way I read it illegals aren't covered under this version. "Non-resident Aliens" are documented and expected to pay taxes. Pg. 143 specifically forbids federal payments for undocumented aliens. Looks that way to me anyway, but I'm not a lawyer.
Of course, they could just change the definition in a 3am amendment and then there wouldn't be a problem.
You are correct Paladin. We'll see how that turns out.
Best hope is like Ron Russell said - that this will not pass.
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