26 reasons to oppose Pelosi’s HR 3962
Nancy Pelosi's H.R. 3962 could be voted on as soon as Thursday this week. Eagle Forum has scoured the pages and found it contains the following provisions:
- Permits federal taxpayer funding of abortion services, above and beyond the status quo of current law.
- Provides for a "health care czar" called the Health Choices Commissioner, who could forcibly enroll individuals in government-run insurance and whose tasks include requiring random compliance audits on Americans' health benefits plans.
- Allows for "community organizations" like ACORN and Planned Parenthood to assist the Health Choices Commissioner in enrolling individuals in the Health Insurance Exchange.
Need more?
- Encourages identity fraud for illegal immigrants seeking to gain taxpayer-subsidized health benefits through inadequate citizenship and legal status verification standards. Page 255, Section 345 of H.R. 3962 includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies, and while the bill currently does include a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify that person's identity, a key component of effective verification.
- Provides for 13 new and different tax increases, including an employer mandate excise tax.
- "Grandfathers" out of existence individual health insurance coverage.
- Retains the "death panels" by providing for bureaucrats working for a new comparative effectiveness institute funded by a tax on health benefits. The institute could publish the protocols needed to deny patients access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds.
- Contains NO ban on federal promotion of assisted suicide and/or health care rationing of treatments.
- Facilitates leftist, social engineering policies such as rewriting current tax law to allow domestic partners to be treated as "spouses."
- Retains both the individual and employer mandates to purchase health insurance or else face a financial penalty, and compliance to this mandate will be enforced by the IRS.
- Imposes a 2.5% tax on an individual's modified adjusted gross income if they fail to purchase "acceptable" health care coverage.
- Imposes a surtax, starting in 2011, on "high"-income people - that is, couples with adjusted gross income over $1 million and individuals over $500,000.
- Fails to hold Members of Congress to the same health care system requirements that Americans will have to live by under the public health insurance option.
- Prohibits states from using tort reform to reduce health care costs.
- Mandates that all health insurance companies accept all applicants, that they cannot deny anyone for pre-existing conditions, and that they cannot increase the monthly premiums for less healthy, more costly consumers.
- Accommodates "whistleblower" provisions for trial lawyers to bring suit against employers.
- Slashes Medicare payments to providers by more than $400 billion.
- Creates dozens of new bureaucracies (111 to be exact) including the Health Benefits Advisory Committee and the Health Choices Administration.
- Encourages people to drop their insurance in favor of the public option as it provides for underpaying medical providers, who will in turn jack up their rates for those patients who have private insurance, driving more people to the cheaper, government plan.
- Authorizes Medicare to pay doctors for providing advice to patients on end-of-life care.
- Grants the authority to negotiate drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- Considers individuals to be treated as "children" up to the age of 26 for the purpose of remaining on their parents' insurance plan.
- Imposes an excise tax on medical devices.
- Cuts $170 billion from the Medicare Advantage program.
- Institutes $729.5 billion in job-killing tax increases on all Americans, fines those who can't afford to purchase government-forced insurance, and cripples businesses by taxing health benefits.
- If all of this weren't enough, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) even predicts that the public option's premiums will end up being quite high because it will attract less healthy people, who are more costly to the insurer. But, with a government-run plan, the government is the insurer, so higher cost projections for the government really means higher costs to American taxpayers.
In addition to all of this bureaucracy, taxation, and theft of individual liberty, the very same CBO has estimated the 10-year cost of H.R. 3962 to be a whopping $1.1 trillion, and that doesn't even include the "Doc Fix" legislation, which seeks to lump $245 billion of Medicare reimbursement payments into the national debt. The exclusion of the healthcare-related "Doc Fix" legislation into the overall pricetag of H.R. 3962 is nothing more than a Washington numbers gimmick, intended to deceive the American people about the true cost of the liberals' plan. So, now is the time to pick up the phone and demand the defeat of a government takeover of health care!
TAKE ACTION!
The clock is ticking. The vote WILL occur at the end of this week. We will keep you updated everyday with the latest details, but there are only a few short days to do all you can to contact your Representatives and to make your voice heard in opposition to this bill. Phone calls are best, so please try to phone both your Representative's Capitol Hill office and his/her district office at least once a day, everyday this week.
For your convenience, here is our list of crucial target Members of Congress. These Members need extra pressure to stand up to Nancy Pelosi and vote NO on H.R. 3962 this week. If your own Representative is solidly opposed to this bill, please phone one of your friends or family members who lives in a district who has a Representative on the fence or who may be leaning toward supporting it, and encourage them to get involved in this fight!
You stopped Congress from steamrolling forward on this legislation last summer, so it's time to do it again this week!
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Where is the list of Congresspeople? I want to contact them.
There is a website at http://www.mywritertools.com that has the new Health Bill 3962 in .doc, .rtf and .pdf versions as well as a program that lets you easily count and list all words and phrases in the document. It also lets you select a word or phrase and easily go to each occurence in the document. You can get the different versions of the bill at http://www.mywritertools.com/congress.asp
Would have been nice if the Chicago Daily Observer had bothered to fact check just some of this fabricated missive. Pure embarrassment to an organization that espouses to report news, disclaimer or not.
Story is syndicated from Illinois Review.
Please specifically call out the discrepancies rather than making sweeping charges. Simply saying It’s Not True because I Say So, strikes me as juvenile.
JBP
USPS/IRS Health Care
Of those “50 million,” that lack insurance there were 45,000 who died without health care. With health care, 98,000 died FROM health care because of malpractice.
The question is do we want to trust that largest corporation in the world, the U.S. Government.
Do not expect house calls anytime soon.
We have seen how well the government delivers on its promises and its bureaucracies pursue the money without giving us benefits on so many levels. Imagine another organ of the government that only ultimately must listen to the Secretary of the Treasury – another “service” of which is the IRS.
http://theprogressivecapitalist.blogspot.com/2009/10/affordable-health-care-for-america-act.html
That blog of mine above has several .pdf connections (HR. 3962 and two summaries, a few videos, and page references for new taxes and other mandates). If you cannot use the link, google “Progressive Capitalist H.R. 3962.”
If you believe the promises of this bill, you have to deal with the lie that it fosters competition with a government option called the “Public Option” and establishes the government as a monopoly making its own rules.
Don’t worry. You’ll run out of “rich” soon enough. We have at least a$12 trillion economy of which at least $1.8 trillion is spent on health care. If you read the bill, there are plenty of opportunities to soak the middle class, if you do not mind the 1.6 million made jobless.
HR3962 fails to hold Members of Congress to the same health care system requirements that Americans will have to live by under the public health insurance option???!!! Wake up America!!!
They are being honest about lying.Very consistent.How else they are going to pass this to mad as hell,furious majority?
This socialist, like the communist,they are not the majority.
So they have to cheat..confuse…cheat..
Life for them has no value?
How they abhor the poor and the helpless.
How they detest the weak and the aged.
The Antichrist ,you will know them by their deeds!
No honor with these people
This healthcare bill is FULL of problems! I’ve highlighted them, and the page numbers in the actual healthcare bill where you can find them at the site listed below.
****Please make your voice heard NOW by visiting http://www.foreverliberty.com. ****
This is a site I’ve put up where we will be collecting comments, compiling them into a professionally bound book, and mailing it to all the congresspeople who are still undecided.
the govt is going to do what they want bottom line. I actually welcome the tyranny because all it does is strengthen the resistance! !0 yrs ago i was mostly alone by that i mean everyone i knew believed what the govt said. Now i have many that will stand by my side in the fight for freedom. To those of you who dont understand i dont need to pay “taxes” the govt to regulate me, i am and have always been responsible enough to know right from wrong, and everything for the govt does id wrong for the most part. sure they do a couple things right but most of it is control. I’ll be patiently waiting for the rest of you to wake up and fight hopefully soon because it wont be long til we are all in the poor house
damn i did some heavy duty misspelling lol
Thankyou. People are not seeing and hearing these true facts. Why not? The fact that the truth is not widely available is unbelievable. Our forefathers founded this country on truth, liberty and one nation under God. Perhaps our leaders need to review our Declaration of Independence and the original Constitution. Thank you
Wow, everything stated above is from a conservative viewpoint, and is basically from a Republican standpoint.
“Facilitates leftist, social engineering policies such as rewriting current tax law to allow domestic partners to be treated as “spouses.”
Leftist, social engineering policies?! I thought you weren’t supposed to put an opinion into the “news”. So basically, domestic partners should not be allowed to visit each other in the hospital or know how the other one is doing because its a leftist social engineering policy? Wonderful.
The Chicago Daily Observer is garbage propaganda. The healthcare reform bill benefits YOU as a taxpayer. It’s to provide benefits for YOU and to lower YOUR costs.
The current cost of health care is approximately 13-14,000 on average per family, and $4,824 per individual, on average. The average family income is around $50,000 and the average individual income is around $26,000. That means 18% of an individual’s yearly income and 26.6% of a family’s income is spent in.. healthcare. Without any regards to ANY other need. It’s time for change. There are 45 million Americans without healthcare, and 87.7 million Americans, roughly 1 in 3, have been without healthcare for some portion of time in the last two years. These numbers are, quite frankly, astounding, and people are still debating this healthcare reform bill and saying the current system works? Please.
The numbers above were provided by the US Census Bureau, as well as a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Don’t take my word for it, look it up.
I also love how if people don’t agree with something nowadays, it’s automatically fascist, leftist, or socialist.
I thought McCarthyism died in the 1950’s.
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