In the latest health care bill introduced in the house yesterday it appears as if the much controversial ‘Death Panels’ are back.
First on page 129
“shall provide for the dissemination of information related to end-of-life planning to individuals seeking enrollment in Exchange-participating health benefits plans offered through the Exchange;”
Then on page 642
“An explanation by the practitioner of the role and responsibilities of a health care proxy and of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title. ”
Among the panels and commissions that are included in the bill, one of the groups of bureaucrats below could one day be deciding if you cost too much to keep alive.
Health Benefits Advisory Committee
Clinical perspective advisory panel
Personal Care Attendant Workforce Advisory Panel
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Our Congress is a complete embarrassment to this nation. We need a congressional overhaul, not a health care overhaul.
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Dan McLaughlin
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Daniel Horowitz
Illegal Aliens
tokm908 (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 6:47AM EST (link)I should also mention that the bill does not restrict illegal aliens from getting health care on your dime. The only mention of undocumented aliens is on page 267 of the bill stating:
SEC. 347. NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS.
Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.
Yet there is NO enforcement that even checks for an ID in the emergency room.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
–Thomas Jefferson
Good comment
snopercod Friday, October 30th at 7:37AM EST (link)You’re exactly right. I also searched the bill and came up with only one hit on the word ‘citizen’, just like you said.
Nowhere in this monstrosity was the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act EMTALA addressed, so anybody walking into an emergency room must still be treated for ‘free’ (paid for by the taxpayers).
This seems like a huge loophole to me. What if a lot of people just say “To heck with buying insurance, I’ll just go to the ER when I’m sick”?
We need a congressional overhaul, not a health care overhaul.
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 7:58AM EST (link)AMEN, I will use that line on my next protest sign
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
You're right, izoneguy. Each congressman and senator must have an official report card .... graded by the constitutuents. nt
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 8:08AM EST (link)Here is Pelosi's garbage - on-line
izoneguy (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 8:52AM EST (link)We need a congressional overhaul, not a health care overhaul.
I just want to know: were is and what was HR 3200???
The bill we looked at all summer?
A BILL
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans
and reduce the growth in health care spending, and
for other purposes.
(What are other purposes?)
http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Other purposes
tokm908 (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 8:59AM EST (link)The term ‘other purposes’ is attached to most bills. Its for adding pork to it.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
–Thomas Jefferson
On this one it should read "for other NEFARIOUS purposes." nt
nessa (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 9:01AM EST (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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"Other Purposes"
Ausonius (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 9:02AM EST (link)is the Humpty Dumpty loophole!
It could be anything! “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean, nothing more nor less!”
This Obamanation of an abomination undoubtedly contains the seeds for its own destruction. Finding outrageous legilsative monstrosities at random will be no problem.
The problem will be: getting the message out to our Great Unwashed Masses to understand the terrors in this “bill” (how appropriate it is now available near Halloween!).
Don’t expect a 60 Minutes piece exposing the truth about this thing!
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Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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Joe Rivers (Diary) Friday, October 30th at 6:04PM EST (link)Apologies aforehand………[you can look away now and your eyes will not burn]
Hi Hi, Hi Ho,
It’s off to Soylent Green we go!
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