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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 congresswithout being read. Another 500 pages to go. I have highlighted a few of theitems that are downright unconstitutional. 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 benefitsyou get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will decide health benefitsfor you. You will have no choice. None. Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with freehealthcare services. Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Health card. Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to allindividual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and communityorganizer health plans Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules toparticipate in a Healthcare Exchange. Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the HealthcareExchange (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 upindividuals for Government-run Health Care plan. Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: youhave no choice in the matter. Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. Nojudicial 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-runpublic 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 notoffer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does notoffer 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 Bureaucracywill 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 andthe poor most affected Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, youll all be paidthe same (thanks, AMA!) Page 253: Government sets value of doctors time, their professionaljudgment, etc. Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for privatehealthcare industries. Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-drivenwheelchairs. Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing! Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deemspreventable re-admissions. Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admissionthat results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government. Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing inhealthcare companies Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expandwithout government 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: Ie., rationing. Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc. Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDSindividuals. Page 379: More bureaucracy: Tele-health Advisory Committee (healthcare byphone). Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: SeniorCitizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia? Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills,durable powers=2 0of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estatetaxes ahead of time. Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources,guiding you in death. Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment;government dictates how your life ends. Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatmentas patients health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from theGOVERNMENT. Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have atend-of-life. Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN. Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs forACORN. Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Governmentintervenes in your marriage. Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining,creating and rationing those services.