Nationalized Healthcare—“The Chart”

I heard on the radio (4:55 PM—July 24th) that the Democratic leadership MIGHT postpone the August recess to continue to work and possibly vote on “Nationalized Healthcare.” Could it be that the Democratic leadership is afraid that, if the Democratic members of the House of Representatives returned to their home districts, the citizens of their districts would convince them to VOTE AGAINST this monstrosity of a bill that will make healthcare worse for most of our citizens—not better!

Another update: I was searching for other information from a previous post and came across the following paragraph. I thought I would repost it so that you could read the proposed bill (before amendments) if you desire. “You can download the PDF file at http://www.energycommerce.house.gov/. It is 1.69 MB. After you get to the home page, clink on Publications. The new page will have you clink on the healthcare publication. Scroll down to the end of this page and you have PDF files for the bill text, bill summary, and bill fact sheets. I just downloaded the bill text since the others are information the bill’s sponsors want you to read—it’s the bill’s propaganda report. No! I haven’t read the bill yet which probably puts me in the same position as most members of the House.”
The above chart (all the colored, nonwhite agencies are NEW agencies), which was produced by Republicans in the House of Representatives based upon H.R. 3200 to establish “Nationalized Healthcare,” can be downloaded from www.house.gov/steveking. According to House Republicans, the Democratic House leadership has prevented “The Chart” from being mailed to their constituents using the franking privilege (free mailing).

Are the Democrats afraid that our citizens will realize how complex this proposal is and how much control will be seized by the federal government if “The Chart” becomes public? Download it, study it, pass it on to other citizens. Five years after passage (which just happens to be after the next Presidential election—that’s right, the Democrats want to pass this bill within weeks after it was introduced and then not have it become fully operational until five years later), according to the Republicans, the “Health Insurance Exchange” (at the bottom of the chart with the two purple circles) will determine the contents of all insurance plans and the plans will all basically be the same based upon the determined contents.

The following is the beginning of the section of the bill (1017 pages long for the entire bill) that establishes the “Health Insurance Exchange.” In another section, the bill requires all insurance policies to be written in plain English. Unfortunately, that same requirement does not seem to be required in the writing of this bill. One individual, who was being interviewed about the bill, said it took her 4 days, including an all night session, to read through the bill to reach the point where she basically understood what the bill said.

(The statement above reminded me of a time when a major provision of the tax code was changed. When I had my first instance of dealing with the new law and going deep into the IRS to talk to experts—not the outer layer of people who normally talk to the public, I had to talk to three different agents on three different occasions to find an agent who understood the new changes. Then, we discussed those changes for over two hours before I was confident that I could prepare the return correctly. Will there be anyone who actually understands all provisions of this bill and the ramifications of this bill? P.S. From what I understand, the President also hasn’t read the bill although he keeps making all these promises of what will and will not be in the bill. Guess what! He doesn’t know!)

“TITLE II—HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE AND RELATED PROVISIONS

Subtitle A—Health Insurance Exchange

SEC. 201. ESTABLISHMENT OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE; OUTLINE OF DUTIES; DEFINITIONS.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within the Health Choices Administration and under the direction of the Commissioner a Health Insurance Exchange in order to facilitate access of individuals and employers, through a transparent process, to a variety of choices of affordable, quality health insurance coverage, including a public health insurance option. (As I said in a previous post, it’s easy to say and write words like choices, affordable, and quality. Writing them and/or saying them doesn’t make it happen! And this monstrosity of a bill will NOT make it happen. It ignores supply and demand principles. Congress seems to think they can change supply and demand principles. They CAN NOT!—my addition)

(b) OUTLINE OF DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER.—In accordance with this subtitle and in coordination with appropriate Federal and State officials as provided under section 143(b), the Commissioner shall—

(1) under section 204 establish standards for, accept bids from, and negotiate and enter into contracts with, QHBP offering entities for the offering of health benefits plans through the Health Insurance Exchange, with different levels of benefits required under section 203, and including with respect to oversight and enforcement;

(2) under section 205 facilitate outreach and enrollment in such plans of Exchange-eligible individuals and employers described in section 202; and (3) conduct such activities related to the Health Insurance Exchange as required, including establishment of a risk pooling mechanism under section 206 and consumer protections under subtitle D of title I.

(c) EXCHANGE-PARTICIPATING HEALTH BENEFITS PLAN DEFINED.—In this division, the term “Exchange participating health benefits plan” means a qualified health benefits plan that is offered through the Health Insurance Exchange.

SEC. 202. EXCHANGE-ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AND EMPLOYERS.

(a) ACCESS TO COVERAGE.—In accordance with this section, all individuals are eligible to obtain coverage through enrollment in an Exchange-participating health benefits plan offered through the Health Insurance Exchange unless such individuals are enrolled in another qualified health benefits plan or other acceptable coverage.

(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this division:

(1) EXCHANGE-ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—The term “Exchange-eligible individual” means an individual who is eligible under this section to be enrolled through the Health Insurance Exchange in an Exchange-participating health benefits plan and, with respect to family coverage, includes dependents of such individual.

(2) EXCHANGE-ELIGIBLE EMPLOYER.—The term “Exchange-eligible employer” means an employer that is eligible under this section to enroll through the Health Insurance Exchange employees of the employer (and their dependents) in Exchange eligible health benefits plans.”

Download “The Chart”, study it, pass it on to other citizens. Draw your conclusions and let your Congressmen know what you think of the “Nationalized Healthcare” bill.

For more information: http://www.healthcare.gopleader.gov/

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