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If you expect a "Simple, Secure Solution" to something as complex as delivering constantly changing and improving healthcare to 300 million individuals, then you are very naive.
A very disappointing book. It's comes down to a list of talking points, overly generalized and mostly wishing away reality without engaging with it. And this is not the plan working its way through Congress.
A well written thesis, containing many bits of useful information that taught me a lot about our healthcare system. Clearly reform is needed. Is his answer the right one. I cannot know after readingt his book alone, but it sure is a good introduction to the topic, and a plain English common sense proposal.
Very detailed--good comparisons of various options.Zeke makes a compelling argument for ending fee-for-servicehealth care as well as the need for more evaluation of treatmentoptions--i.e. determining what is most effective and when.The format makes comparing different options easy. All the "single payer"people should read this. I used to be one of them but am now a proponentof universal healthcare (which is often used to mean single payer).
Page numbers refer to the current HR3200 bill available online---watch for changes, they will try to sneak this by you.* Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure. * Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. They have no God-given right to interefere with these decisions which belong to individuals, their families and their doctors. Government intervenes in your marriage. Right to life, choice.* Penalize with fines any citizens who do not participate; increase taxes on citizens and businesses. * Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Mandatory. * Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
* Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. * Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records. What can you do. * Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates.
* Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time. * Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll * Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll * Page 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed by government bureaucrats. * Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
* Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions. * Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages. $$$$$$$$$$$$* Restrict care for the elderly, regulate hospice and control end-of-life decisions. * Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN. See the bill for yourself and stop it Health Care Bill in Bullet Form No matter what political Party you are affiliated with.This IS about Your Life. * Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia. Complete bill go here: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi.dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.pdfSTEALTH DEATH PLAN The Democrat Congress is fast-tracking "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009") to radically change not only health care, but also the role of the government in our lives.
Stop Nazicrat Death Plan First of all, it is an outright lie that 47m Americanas are without health care. * Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends. * Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc. * Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. * Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
None. * Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter. * Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government. No alternatives. * Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
* Limit physicians' control over patient care and medications. This is a denial of our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happines. Nazicare. * Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN) * Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. This is EVIL, this is Nazism. * Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life. * Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies. * Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
* Cancel your membership in AARP and any other organization that supports the Bill. * Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. * Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard. * Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed. * Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN. * Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing. Many hospitals have gone bankrupt because of all the illegals coming across the border and getting treated and/or coming over and having their babies here.
* Phone, write, e-mail your Congressman, or go to his district office, tell him you will not vote to re-elect him if he votes for HR 3200; you will campaign for and contribute to his opponent.* Tell your employer you like your health insurance plan and want it to continue. Right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. * Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them). Those who want government to control Americans' life and death include 20 millions illegals in that number---so 1) they are not Americans; 2) they are not entitled to benefits paid for by hardworking Americans.They also include in that number people who are uninsured for even a month or two--as those who are switching jobs or those in the 18-34 range who choose not to purchase insurance. * Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer. * Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services. (Note, most of these people get health insurance when they change jobs or get married and have children). * Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans) * Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens * Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
* Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. BTW, many NYC high schools have health clinics with doctors, right in the school Call the main number for De Witt Cllinton HS--(718) 543-1000---you will hear the option for the Montefiore clinic right on the first menu.Govt health care means bureaucrats make life and death decisions about your treatment and your very life. * Go to www.freeourhealthcarenow.com & www.savequalityhealthcare.org and sign the petitions. * Add to health care costs and the deficit. * Empower the new Health Care Administration to monitor all medical records and personal information.
Seniors and the poor most affected." * Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA). * Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process) * Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. As written, the 1,018 page Bill*will: * Eliminate employer and private insurance plans beginning in 2013.* Create a new government-run agency on par with the Social Security Administration. Look at NYC---over a million illegals. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
* Boycott companies such as Wal-Mart that support the Bill. * Force states into programs, adding more costs to states. * Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death. No one goes without treatment because they don't have insurance--hospitals are REQUIRED BY LAW to treat people. * Give preference to certain identity groups with an Office of Minority Health. * Impose political oversight and involvement at every level through a non-elected Health Benefits Advisory Committee.
* Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. * Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals. * Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
You will have no choice. * Contact your insurer & your primary care physician and tell them you do not want government-run health care. * Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
Hospitals cannot expand without government approval. * Control education of nurses and medical staff with new Public Health Workforce Corps. * Circulate this page to everyone you know.
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