Are these good things for Americans? The following are actually in the House healthcare bill currently under consideration…
1. Healthcare will be rationed. Yes, it states your annual limitation to be $5,000 per individual and $10,000 per family and covers no preventative care. A government committee, composed primarily of individuals who can be appointed by the President, will determine the treatments and benefits for which you qualify.
2. Healthcare will be provided to all non-U.S. citizens and any nonresident alien is exempt from individual taxes (ie. citizens pay for illegals’ healthcare).
3. The government will have access to your finances and direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
4. A single payer system is the end game despite President Obama’s statements otherwise concerning “his bill”. The government is creating a healthcare exchange to bring private plans under their control. No company can sue the governments for price-fixing, which means the government has the means to eliminate all private competition with no fear of litigation. Businesses will be significantly penalized for not providing the public option.
5. The government will use community organizers like ACORN and Americorps to “inform and educate” people (ie. sign them up).
6. Individuals are “forced” to have heathcare deemed “acceptable” by the government, whether they want it or not, since they will be taxed 2.5% of their income if they don’t.
7. The government will have access to all your medical records and finances and a National ID Healthcare Card will be issued.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The infringement upon our liberties, trampling of the Constitution and imminent destruction of the finest medical delivery system in the world goes on for 1017 pages in H.R. 3200…
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.txt.pdf
If you prefer the abridged edition, here’s a very comprehensive summary that was developed by Liberty Counsel on 7/29/09 based upon review, revisions and adaptations of Peter Fleckenstein’s previously posted FreeRepublic.com version…
http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf
There’s no doubt that our healthcare system requires reform, however, what’s needed is a private-sector overhaul with government oversight, not a socialist government takeover of 1/7th of the U.S. economy.
This is what concerned citizens are bringing to light at these town hall meetings throughout the country. These individuals are not the lunatic fringe. They are patriots exercising their 1st Amendment right to free speech, which the government apparently desires to suppress. The lunatic fringe is the 500 plus so-called public servants in the legislative and executive branches of our current government that are trying to ram this atrocity down the throats of the American people.
Don’t be intimidated by the demonization of us concerned Americans that’s being done by the President, extreme liberals in Congress and their willing accomplices in the mainstream, virtually state-run, media. Make no mistake, the government bureaucracy and the consequential assault on American liberties that this bill would create will be virtually impossible to reverse at any time within our realistic futures, once enacted.
Demand that your voice be heard by contacting your congressmen and attending these town halls during the congressional recess over the next few weeks. This bill would usher in a “new” America… one in which most of us will have no desire to live. If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for your kids and their kids.
Be afraid, be very afraid. This is truly that important!
