Just the fact that the American People are sitting on their hands as the socialists are preparing to "chop off" the last of our dwindling liberties is reason enough to pass on this recent dispatch from "the hill"...
House health care bill makes individual private medical insurance illegal
Thanks. I went to IBD and verified this. Thanks to the President,
Administration, and Democratic Congress, the citizens who work and
contribute are going to be screwed. Thanks, Mr. President... This looks
like change we can believe in... but, it stinks.
But, keep smiling. You may not have long to smile. After age 65, you will
be left to die without somewhat costly life-lengthening medical treatment
you literally busted your ass over the years to now have. Sorry. No hips.
No knees. No dialysis. No bypass. No stent. No pacemaker. No life. And,
no money for a funeral because the Government taxed you to death to cover
the $10T committed/spent in just the past six months. About ten times what
Bush did in eight years.
Never though I would seen such a crappy Government in this Country.
Cheers,
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It's Not An Option
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the
House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a
provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document
was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help
from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual
private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To
Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the
bill clearly states:
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance
issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such
coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first
day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised - with, of course,
exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be
able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves
be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if
the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health
insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a
public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums
because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their
private plans and go with Washington's coverage.
The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more
Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a
program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer
customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John
Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether."
What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for
private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after
the public option becomes law.
The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal
that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative
because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and
the government less, than HSAs.
With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the
welfare state will be removed.
The public option won't be an option for many, but rather a mandate for
buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of
soft tyranny.
Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw
private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn't be
killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major
changes in Americans' lives.
It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political
powers to increase their reach. It's scary to think how many more breaches
of liberty we'll come across in the final 1,002.
It's Not An Option
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the
House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a
provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document
was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help
from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual
private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To
Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the
bill clearly states:
"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance
issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such
coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first
day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised - with, of course,
exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be
able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves
be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if
the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health
insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a
public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums
because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their
private plans and go with Washington's coverage.
The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more
Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a
program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer
customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John
Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether."
What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for
private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after
the public option becomes law.
The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal
that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative
because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and
the government less, than HSAs.
With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the
welfare state will be removed.
The public option won't be an option for many, but rather a mandate for
buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of
soft tyranny.
Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw
private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn't be
killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major
changes in Americans' lives.
It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political
powers to increase their reach. It's scary to think how many more breaches
of liberty we'll come across in the final 1,002.
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