Some gems included in the Pelosi Health Care bill in the House;
Where's Joe Wilson? We need another outburts of "You Lie!" From the Pelosi bill;
Reading Guide to the Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill
Please read and forward the link to this note ( http://bit.ly/1rGrpW ) to your friends and family. This reading guide includes what we have uncovered in our initial reading of the Pelosi health reform legislation (H.R. 3962) introduced by House Democrats.
Page 94 Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government
Page 110 Section 222(e) requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health planand, if the Hyde Amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund elective abortions
Page 111 Section 223 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the Health Benefits Advisory Committee) to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase and would likely require all Americans to subsidize and purchase plans that cover any abortion
Page 211 Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage
Page 225 Section 330 permits but does not require Members of Congress to enroll in government-run health care
Page 255 Section 345 includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies under the bill while the bill includes a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify applicants identity, thus encouraging identity fraud for undocumented immigrants and others wishing to receive taxpayer-subsidized health benefits
Page 297 Section 501 imposes a 2.5 percent tax on all individuals who do not purchase bureaucrat-approved health insurance the tax would apply on individuals with incomes under $250,000, thus breaking a central promise of then-Senator Obamas presidential campaign
Page 313 Section 512 imposes an 8 percent tax on jobs for firms that cannot afford to purchase bureaucrat-approved health coverage ; according to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Baicker, such a tax would place millions at substantial risk of unemploymentwith minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts
Page 336 Section 551 imposes additional job-killing taxes, in the form of a half-trillion dollar surcharge, more than half of which will hit small businesses ; according to a model developed by President Obamas senior economic advisor, such taxes could cost up to 5.5 million jobs
Page 520 Section 1161 cuts more than $150 billion from Medicare Advantage plans, potentially jeopardizing millions of seniors existing coverage
Page 733 Section 1401 establishes a new Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research; the bill includes no provisions preventing the government-run health plan from using such research to deny access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds, similar to Britains National Health Service, which denies patient treatments costing more than $35,000
Page 1174 Section 1802(b) includes provisions entitled TAXES ON CERTAIN INSURANCE POLICIES to fund comparative effectiveness research, breaking Speaker Pelosis promise that We will not be taxing [health] benefits in any bill that passes the House, and the Presidents promise not to raise taxes on families with incomes under $250,000
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