Thanks to Sen Hatch for exposing this.

The language is not too specific and additions and benefits will be decided by the secretarywho is a complete flaming liberal.

(b) MINIMUM SERVICES TO BE COVERED.—The
items and services described in this subsection are the fol21
lowing:
(1) Hospitalization.
(2) Outpatient hospital and outpatient clinic
services, including emergency department services.
(3) Professional services of physicians and other
health professionals.
(4) Such services, equipment, and supplies incident to the services of a physician’s or a health professional’s delivery of care in institutional settings, physician offices, patients’ homes or place of residence, or other settings, as appropriate.
(5) Prescription drugs.
(6) Rehabilitative and habilitative services.
(7) Mental health and substance use disorder services.
(8) Preventive services, including those services
recommended with a grade of A or B by the Task
Force on Clinical Preventive Services and those vaccines recommended for use by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(9) Maternity care.
(10) Well baby and well child care and oral health, vision, and hearing services, equipment, and supplies at least for children under 21 years of age.

Copied from the bill (I downloaded it and have read the first forty pages so far)
(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
11 (A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in
12 this paragraph, the individual health insurance
13 issuer offering such coverage does not enroll
14 any individual in such coverage if the first ef-
15 fective date of coverage is on or after the first
16 day of Y1.

So basically only approved plans can be offered and all other options become illegal.

Also

(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALIFIED HEALTH BENE2
FITS PLANS.—On or after the first day of Y1, a health
3 benefits plan shall not be a qualified health benefits plan
4 under this division unless the plan meets the applicable
5 requirements of the following subtitles for the type of plan
6 and plan year involved:

Will abortion be a required benefit?? If so this would circumvent the agreements keeping Federal funds from paying for abortion, even if you were paying into an approved “private plan” you could end up financing abortion with your money.

And it is sorta funny. His #1, the image of dumb doctors recalls a scene from “Idiocracy” …

“It would seem that a rational choice for insurance companies would be to just close up shop now while they still have equity left to distribute the shareholders, or at least start a phase-out process in preparation for shutting down in 2013.”

I agree. This bill is worse than we could have imagined.

Interesting tagline. I pretty much said the same thing myself …
“I am an American Patriot first, a conservative second, and a Republican third.”
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-this-american-patriot-believes.html

That’s obvious.

Watch the Steve Crowder video:

Erick Erickson mentioned this video two nights ago on Hannity. Everyone here should watch it and then help it go viral. Once you watch the whole thing, I’m sure you’ll agree.

(I always love seeing clips of Michael “I’ve been to rehab many times, I’m obese, and I give none of my millions of dollars to charity” Moore lecturing the “little people” on how to best ensure a healthy, altruistic life.)

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/07/13/must-see-undercover-expose-of-socialized-healthcare/

Tongiht I made a sign that says “SOCIALIZED MEDICINE KILLS PEOPLE.” I’ll be carrying tomorrow at the protests scheduled outside our Debtocrat Rep. Harry Mitchell (CD-5, AZ), who trumpets on his web site that he’s for ObamaCare.

Also, please read Pat Buchanan’s latest column at WorldNetDaily entitled, “Socialist America sinking”: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104226

Thank you.

Cold Warrior

P.S. When are we going to fight? Think of what will happen to your posterity. Not to mention yourself.

I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican Party precinct committeeman and trying everything I can to entice conservatives here at Redstate.com to become PCs.

‘They’ll stay home, where they’ll get fat and lazy and die of diabetes.’…I was gonna say “like Independents?”…LOL

As an aside, what makes you think that there will be a need for investment bankers in the U.S. after the government in a few years (or possibly less) will have sucked up all capital and decimated domestic private capital. However, there will be need for people to invest private capital abroad.

2) Not sure how this follows; we certainly will have rationing, but not clear how that translates to “promoting” certain diseases.

3) First sentence – we certainly can expect job losses as private industry dries up from lack of private investment capital and punitive taxation, so most people who stay home will probably be because they don’t have a job or because what’s available they consider not worth the time. Health care availabilty my play some role, but since they can get it either working or not, the deciding issue will be whether they think it worthwhile on other grounds to work or not. Second sentence is silly.

4) Immigration depends on many factors; the largest factor will be the economic advantage of and availability of work in the U.S., which if we’re in a deep depression will sharply reduce flows. We’ve already seen less immigration with the current conditions as the U.S. becomes less favorable. Not sure how much medical will figure in, depends on quality of Mexican medicine vs. quality of U.S. medicine – and the latter will worsen under ObamaCare. It could well be that immigrants will do better sticking with their own nation’s health care system. I wasn’t aware the leprosy was rampant among immigrants.

5) Surely there is some moral hazard, but most people don’t want to sick regardless of how care is being paid for, so it’s not clear how much effect there will be on safety measures. Nor is it clear why STDs or drinking bad water should increase under ObamaCare. Indeed, with contraceptive services, STDs might actually decrease – but free abortions might increase risk-taking behavior. It’s really perilous to predict behavior changes; too many countervailing factors.

The Sec. 102 “promise” to let you keep your existing health coverage. You didn’t expect them to let you keep it forever, did you?

If starting in 2013 the government mandates the conditions you must cover and insists that you cover all partcipants at the same price regardless of preexisting conditions, prevents you adding new customers, makes it attractive for employee groups to leave for the gov’t plan, and will not allow you to otherwise change your plan or you lose the people, then 1) all your prior risk models and customer experience go out the window; 2) you can’t predict your risk pool because employee groups or former employees may leave at any time; 3) you will besubject to additional taxation that may change at any time by executive fiat; 4) in any event, your company will be forced to close shop in 2018 when the sunset clauses go into effect.

This is just for starters. Now tell me how can you rationally offer health insurance under those conditions, especially since your likelihood of losses is high and the return on investment has a limited life span.

It would seem that a rational choice for insurance companies would be to just close up shop now while they still have equity left to distribute the shareholders, or at least start a phase-out process in preparation for shutting down in 2013. Especially since a closer reading will probably reveal that there are likely to be all sorts of other booby traps that may get sprung, even before 2013.

It’s very clear the ultimate goal and outcome for ObamaCare is a Canada-style/ Brit-NHS style single-payer monstrosity, and the leftists are bold enough to make silly claims that it aint that bad. The h*ll it aint. See #3, and the second link on the price people pay for socialist rationing.

2) It’ll promote certain diseases that the government plans don’t have to cover.

3) It will make more people quit their jobs because now they can get health care without working for it. They’ll stay home, where they’ll get fat and lazy and die of diabetes.

4) Illegal immigration will get worse because more Mexicans will come up North to get free healthcare and in the process spread diseases like leprosy (this is a subset of point 2).

5) Moral hazard: if people know the govt will cover them regardless of their diseases, they’ll be less careful about getting STDs and drink foul water.