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2009-11-09 Home Front: Politix

Health plan adds billions in fees, taxes

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 This is evil. EVIL.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-11-09 04:38|| 2009-11-09 04:38|| Front Page Top

#2 How they can't see this will strangle job recovery baffles me.
Oh...right, they can see and don't care because this is about control over the great unwashed.

Posted by NCMike 2009-11-09 10:00|| 2009-11-09 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW, I think the train wreck picture might be appropriate for this thread.

Posted by NCMike 2009-11-09 10:02|| 2009-11-09 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Even better than the train wreck graphic:
http://thereifixedit.com/2009/10/08/this-ladder-seems-perfectly-omg/

Posted by mom">mom 2009-11-09 10:05|| 2009-11-09 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 500 billion in new taxes aimed at individuals and small businesses.

Say goodbye to jobs, this bill kills small businesses and entrepreneurs. The jobs will go to India and overseas or else off the books to illegals.

You like your insurance now? Say goodbye to it. Preexisting conditions are no longer exclude, so insurance companies will go belly up or else jack rates way up. And if you cannot afford it you will be forced onto the government plan. As for what's left of private insurance, it must meet Pelosi's arbitrary and broad standards or else its not allowed to be bought or sold. Want to opt out? You cannot. You pay a tariff collected by the IRS, and might even become a felon pay a 250000 fine go to jail for up to 5 years.

Like your doctor? Say goodbye to him or her, especially if he is pro-life. The government will force them to provide services against their conscience and many will simply quit practicing medicine.

More than 600 Catholic Hospitals that serve the poorest citizens will be forced to close due to their refusal to provide abortion, sterilization and birth control services.

Like being able to choose your treatment? Say bye to that as the Medical Effectiveness Boards, AKA Death Panels, will rule on who gets which treatments. And unlike an insurance company, you will not be able to sue them nor will you be able to avoid them, their word will be law.

Like the high tech medical devices that make life possible even with illness or disability? Say goodbye to them as 40 billion in new taxes and tons of new regulations strangle research in its cradle, and price the devices out of affordability.

Glad you can take a pill and treat so many different conditions? Say goodbye to that too, because pharmaceutical R&D is going to be crippled by higher taxes and increased regulations as well as confiscatory laws that steal from the inventors and give to the government.

There are over 111 new government bureaucracies added to the already bloated HHS will control health insurance, health care and the IRS becomes the enforcement arm. THey will eat away at the money in the system, instead of it going to patient care.

Does your state have limits on pain and suffering awards in medical malpractice? Say goodbye to those too. Pelosi wrote the abolishing of limits on awards into the laws for her masters in the Injury Lawyers lobby.

This is a disaster. America has gone stupid.

Posted by Large Ebbaiting1188 2009-11-09 11:22|| 2009-11-09 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 If I understand correctly, the Federal government cannot be sued without its consent. If so, then the Democrat trial lawyer allies would probably prefer the Pelosi plan which forces insurance companies to be the fall guys for the results of de facto rationing over a true single payer system.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-09 12:10|| 2009-11-09 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 How do you feel now the government has nationalised your body?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-11-09 13:44|| 2009-11-09 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 This obscenity of governmental over-reach beyond the bounds of our Constitition MUST be stopped. This will truly destroy our nation, and I fear for our Union if something like this passes.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2009-11-09 17:27|| 2009-11-09 17:27|| Front Page Top

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