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COMMON AND FISCAL SENSE TO HEALTH CARE
*REFORM NOT CONTROL*
FACTS:
What does the bill, HR 3200, short-titled ‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” actually say aboutmajor health care issues?
THE BILL RATIONS MEDICAL CARE
pages 284-288, SEC. 1151.
This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up.
There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts.
The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page317-318.
THE BILL PUNISHES AMERICANS WHO OPT OUT
pages 167-168, section 401
Anyone caught without acceptable coverage and not in the government plan will pay a special tax.
The IRS will be a major enforcement mechanism for the plan.
THE BILL ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO SET FEES FOR SERVICES
page 124, Sec. 223, PA
The government’s authority to set payments is basically unlimited.
The official will decide what constitutes “excessive,” “deficient,” and “efficient” payments and services.
THE BILL WILL PAY FOR ABORTIONS (AMENDMENT)
at the end of section 122
Capps Amendment leaves it to the secretary of Health and Human Services to decide whether or not theywill be covered. It says
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Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the public health insuranceoption from providing
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abortion services that would not be legal for Medicaid coverage.
The Capps Amendment MANDATES that the public plan cover any Medicaid-fundable abortions, andAUTHORIZES the secretary to cover all other abortions.
THE COST TO TAXPAYERS
Congressional Budget Office (CBO), projects that H.R. 3200,
Will cost taxpayers well over $1 trillion, is set to increase the national debt by $239 billionover the next ten years.
Public option will undercut private insurers and pass the tab to taxpayers and health providers just as it doesin existing government-run programs. For example, Medicare pays hospitals 71% and doctors 81% of what private insurers pay.
Who covers the rest? Government passes the bill for the outstanding balance to providers and families notcovered by government programs. This cost-shifting amounts to a forced subsidy. Families pay about$1,800 more a year for someone else's health care as a result, according to a recent study by Milliman Inc.
America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 or
Baucus Bill now being proposed has middle-class Americanfamilies expected to pay up to 13 % of family income for health care insurance that meets a minimumstandard of care.
Our national debt is over 9 Trillion and growing
BOTTOM LINE:
We can’t afford it
HOW MANY AMERICANS ARE REALLY UNINSURED?
Roughly one-quarter of those counted as uninsured, or 12 million people, are eligible for but have notenrolled in Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). This includes 64 percentof all uninsured children and 29 percent of uninsured parents.
An additional 10 million uninsured Americans are not American citizens. Approximately 5.6 million of them are illegal immigrants. An additional 4.4 million are legal immigrants who have not been naturalized.
8.4 million uninsured Americans are making $50,000 to $74,999 and 9.1 million more are making morethan $75,000. Health insurance is just incompatible with their lifestyles, I guess.
A study by former Congressional Budget Office director June O'Neill found that 43 percent of theuninsured have incomes above 250 percent of the poverty level, making at least $55,125 for a family of
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