Among all the sturm and drang regarding the bills being proposed to “reform” American health care, the over-riding problem is not in any particular detail. Of course the bills don’t refer to “death panels” and don’t demand you ask to be terminated during those end-o-life sessions with your doctor. Of course there’s no demand that the taxpayer pay for abortion … in the bill.
But ….
And here’s a big but: the bill in the House gives virtual carte blanche to government officials and administrators to do pretty much anything they want as it impacts your health. And the bill specifically exempts many administrative decisions from court review.
Read section 142 of HR3200 to see the powers of the Health Choices Administration.
So if the administrator demands that all private and public insurance plans include abortion coverage, it will be done.
If the administrator needs information from your employer it must be provided because the bill allows the administrator to determine what information is needed. That is pretty much an open ended right to pry into your private affairs.
The congress and Obama administration want to create a structure in which your individual health care decisions will be subject to the will of a government department. That is a fundamental re-ordering of the rights of a free people and a very, very dangerous act.
It is sometimes said that the “devil is in the details.” In this case, the devil is in the concept itself.
But ….
And here’s a big but: the bill in the House gives virtual carte blanche to government officials and administrators to do pretty much anything they want as it impacts your health. And the bill specifically exempts many administrative decisions from court review.
Read section 142 of HR3200 to see the powers of the Health Choices Administration.
So if the administrator demands that all private and public insurance plans include abortion coverage, it will be done.
If the administrator needs information from your employer it must be provided because the bill allows the administrator to determine what information is needed. That is pretty much an open ended right to pry into your private affairs.
The congress and Obama administration want to create a structure in which your individual health care decisions will be subject to the will of a government department. That is a fundamental re-ordering of the rights of a free people and a very, very dangerous act.
It is sometimes said that the “devil is in the details.” In this case, the devil is in the concept itself.
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I have heard this bill described as Medicare for everybody.
A few years ago when my father was in the hospital with an infection, and he ran out of his Medicare allotment for that stay, the attending physician tried to boot him from the hospital, infection and all. We fought to get him a small respite but he was finally discharged only to be rushed back in shortly there after because his condition of course got worse. The idea of compassion for a sick elderly man was not there, only the criteria that Medicare spelled out.
So listen to their denials all day long, once the bill is passed, you live or die with the results.
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