by Rep. John D. Dingall (D. MI-15) titled “National Health Insurance Act”. It seems the Dems aren’t letting any grass grow under their feet. This bill sets up the National Health Care Trust Fund.
Under Section 102(c) it says—
Recommendations- The board shall have the duty of–
(1) studying and making recommentations as to needed services and facilities for the care of the chronic sick afflicted with physical ailments and for the care of individuals afflicted with mental or nervous disorders, and as to needed provisions for the prevention of chronic physical dieases and of mental or nervous diseases and
(2) making reports from time to time with recommendations as to legislation, but the first such report shall be made not later them two years after benefits under this Act first become available.
Under Sec. 104 Eligibility for benefits it states that people will be eligible for this is they have recieved not less then $2000 in wages during the first four of the last six calander quarters.
Please if I am reading this wrong let me know but it looks like they are pushing for government run health care quickly. There has been no activity as of this morning since it was introduced so we have time to let our voices be heard.
Daniel Horowitz
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Jake Walker
This needs to be killed! (nt)
larueladue (Diary) Saturday, February 28th at 10:45AM EST (link)Another Classic Socialist Solution -- Bad Idea!
reddog53 (Diary) Saturday, February 28th at 12:41PM EST (link)You are right to be alarmed about this Bill. I was puzzled as to why this was introduced through the Commerce Committee instead of one focused on Health, but the answer becomes clear at the end. The Bill creates a ‘trust fund’ which will initially be the recipient of $648Billion as described by the President earlier this week. The trust fund is then to be sustained by a Value Added Tax of 5%.
So much for ‘no one making less than $250,000 is going to have their taxes increased.’ VATs started in Europe and now amount to a surcharge of 15-25% on many goods and services. Don’t be surprised when the proposed VAT gets escalated to those same levels.
Burdening businesses with the collection and administration costs of a VAT is just what they need while grappling with a recession and global competition.
On top of the VAT, the Bill creates two national bureaucracies to supervise the States and local “Health Services Areas” to ration care and mandate costs. It also indirectly sets limits on compensation for doctors, specialists and nurses, and regulates the number of patients they are allowed to treat.
This is a bad idea doubled!
So not only do
sdan (Diary) Saturday, February 28th at 3:23PM EST (link)they plan to tell us what treatments the doctors can give us if we wanted to opt out of this and our dr is on this program the government can say he has too many patients and he has to turn away all patients that are not on the government program.
OK, call me super cynic,
Praying (Diary) Saturday, February 28th at 5:19PM EST (link)But my first thought when I read it was of a return to the mental institutions of previous generations…
“studying and making recommentations as to needed services and facilities for the care of the chronic sick afflicted with physical ailments and for the care of individuals afflicted with mental or nervous disorders,…”
This whole scenario is just getting way too Orwellian for me!
No!!!11!1!!1!1! The Bilderbergers are coming