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Page After Page of Reasons to Hate ObamaCare
By Alan Caruba | Published  07/27/2009 | From Our Writers
Alan Caruba
Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," on the Internet site of the National Anxiety Center.  His book, "Right Answers: Separating Fact From Fantasy," is published by Merril Press. 

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Here are just a few very good reasons to hate ObamaCare:

• Page 22:  Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!

• Page 29:  Admission: your health care will be rationed!

• Page 30:  A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)

• Page 42:  The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you.  You will have no choice.  None.

• Page 50:  All non-U.S. citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

• Page 58:  Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

• Page 59:  The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

• Page 65:  Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

• Page 72:  All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

• Page 84:  All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

• Page 91:  Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens

• Page 95:  The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

• Page 102:  Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

• Page 124:  No company can sue the government for price-fixing.  No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly.  Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

• Page 127:  The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

• Page 145:  An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan.  No alternatives.

• Page 126:  Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

• Page 149:  Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll.

• Page 150:  Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll.

• Page 167:  Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

• Page 170:  Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).

• Page 195:  Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

• Page 203:  “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Yes, it really says that.• Page 239:  Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid.  Seniors and the poor most affected.”

• Page 241:  Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)

• Page 253:  Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc.

• Page 265:  Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.

• Page 268:  Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.

• Page 272:  Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!

• Page 280:  Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.

• Page 298:  Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.

• Page 317:  Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!

• Page 318:  Prohibition on hospital expansion.  Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.

• Page 321:  Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.

• Page 335:  Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

• Page 341:  Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.

• Page 354:  Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.

• Page 379:  More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).

• Page 425:  More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?

• Page 425:  Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc.  Mandatory.  Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.

• Page 425:  Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.

• Page 427:  Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.

• Page 429:  Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates.  This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans.  An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

• Page 430:  Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

• Page 469:  Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.

• Page 472:  Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.

• Page 489:  Government will cover marriage and family therapy.  Government intervenes in your marriage.

• Page 494:  Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called ObamaCare.  Write, e-mail, fax, or call your senators and your representative and tell them to vote NO!