Locked In by Big Brother Under US Health Care

Many emails I’ve received about the Health Care Bill – H.R. 3963 – contain a confusing array of warnings that I’ve found impossible to verify from searches of the actual Bill in pdf format, but some warnings pan out to be legitimate. In the paragraphs below I have inserted supporting screen shots from the Bill itself, since ’seeing is believing.’ Click here to download the actual Bill.

If you agree with any or all of what is posted below, please contact your U.S. ‘representatives’ and ask them to strike at least those sections you consider to be  onerous.

What I’ve verified from the Bill so far:
1. National Card: You will be required to be in possession of a national, digital-based ‘health card’ or ’similar mechanism’ (if you want health care).
2. Re-admissions ‘De-incentivized’: You’ll be less likely to be re-admitted to the hospital, if you return to the ‘ER’ for help.
3. Salary Control: An employer will be unable to decrease the salaries of his employees, in attempt to be able to afford health care coverage for them.
4. Slap by Another Tax: You’ll be taxed on your income – at an additional 2.5% – if the U.S. ‘health czar’ deems that you don’t have “acceptable health care coverage.”

The above four (4) proposals included in the Bill are just some of costs ‘we the people’ will endure if we accept this promise by the U.S. government to “provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans, reduce the growth in health care spending, and… other purposes.” As I continue to gain insights from readers and further study of the 1,190 pages of the Bill, I will update this post.

In the following four (sections) I will expound upon the evidence.

1. Health Card? Hey, Why Not Just ‘Verichip’ Me Instead?

Section 1173A proposes the utilization of a “machine-readable health electronic plan beneficiary identification card” (’health card’) that would “enable the real-time…determination” of your “financial responsibility at the point of service….”

Clearly, proof of citizenship will need to be on your card. But what information about your “financial” status (indicating your level of “responsibility”) will also be included?

The proposed ‘health card’ will stipulate whether or not you are eligible “for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, on a specific date or range of dates.” Wow! All this sounds impressively specific.

And this Section (1173A) indicates as an alternative to the ‘health card’: “a similar mechanism.” Question: What might our ‘trusted public servants‘ in Washington have in mind for such a “similar mechanism“?

Well, why not entice us with an even ‘more convenient mechanism’ than a card, and something that is unlikely to be misplaced, like the Verichip, using “Health Link” technology “to link you and your health record”?

This section of the ‘Health Care’ Bill – on the ‘Health Card‘ – is draconian legislation and smacks of the totalitarian future described so well (and as a warning) by George Orwell.

Screen shot from the Bill – Section 1173A: [Got Card? jpg - will post after technical difficulty resolved].

[VeriChip jpg]

[HealthCard jpg]

2. Bill Provides Incentive Not to Re-Admit: Less Pay to Hospitals for Re-Admitted Patients.

Even non-health care workers understand that re-admissions to the hospital are extremely common, necessary and important for Americans’ health. It is not wise for me as a doctor – carrying the responsibility of patients’ health in the Emergency Department – to have a financial incentive to NOT readmit you, your spouse, your child or your parent!

But Section 1151 allows the new U.S. ‘health Secretary (’czar’) to tell hospitals and doctors: ‘Don’t re-admit that patient, or we’ll reduce your pay.’

Quote: “The Secretary shall reduce…payments…to such hospitals.”

Screen shot from the Bill – Section 1151: [Reduced Pay for Re-admissions jpg - will post after technical difficulty resolved].

3. Salary Cuts to Pay for Employees’ Health Care? Government Says You Cannot.

Section 1174 basically says, ‘You will provide your employees with health care coverage, but you cannot take it from their salaries.’

Quote: “Any contribution on behalf of an employee, with respect to which there is a corresponding reduction in the compensation of the employee, shall not be treated as an amount paid by the employer.”

Salaries are the #1 expense for most companies. Yet the government is demanding that you do not adjust salary rates in order to pay for health insurance. If you did reduce salaries to pay for health insurance, you, as employer, would need to make records appear as if the draw from other account categories was made for other reasons, in such a manner that would not ultimately reveal your business decision.

Of course, taking such a measure as that would be considered by the government to be criminal, especially after the proposed “strengthening of audit authority,” which is also included in the Bill. Advice: Keep quiet or one of your employees or colleagues may report you to Big Brother. Sure sounds like George Orwell’s 1984 to me.

Screen shot from the Bill – Section 1174: [No Health Care from Salaries jpg - will post after technical difficulty resolved].

4. You Have No Health Care Insurance? Your Income Tax Just Increased 2.5% – Unless You’re Amish?

You will be taxed 2.5% if the U.S. ‘health czar’ deems that you don’t have “acceptable” health care coverage.”

Quote: ‘‘In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements…there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of…the taxpayer’s…gross income….”

An important story from Fox news reported that the Amish are to be except from the mandate because admirably, they “take care of their own” and don’t carry commercial or governmental “insurance.” In fact, they’ve avoided the Medicare and ‘Social Security’ scams since the 60s after fighting to not have to pay taxes toward those two ‘programs’ for the same reasons.

From the Fox story: “[I]f the Amish can opt out, then some civil libertarians say they want out, too — not for religious reasons but because they don’t think the underlying health insurance mandate is legal.”

Any “civil libertarians” out there who think this mandate from the ‘givement’ is coercive and illegal?

One thing for sure: If ‘civil liberty’ doesn’t beat this thing, and this Section of the Bill passes, the IRS/U.S. Treasury/’Federal’ ‘Reserve’ will be able to effectively sniff out Americans ‘under the radar’ who aren’t paying their ‘fair share’ of income taxes (’Ah! Let’s gain control of ‘em when their most vulnerable: in need of health care, and without a ‘health card’!).

Screen shot from the Bill – Section 59B: [Tax Imposed - will post after technical difficulty resolved].

Action to Take: If you agree that any of the above Sections (#59B, 1151, 1173A, 1174) of H.R. 3963 – the “Health Care” Bill – are not “Good Medicine” for America please contact your U.S. ‘representatives’ in Washington D&C and ask them to strike these sections from the Bill immediately, assuming they still actually hear you.