Call, fax, email Senators before next Tuesday, October 13, 2009 re 'health bill'

 

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The 1st version of the health bill may be voted on this coming Tuesday.  Please, take time to contact your Senators and give them your opinion before then..Call, fax, and email them.  Information on ways to contact them is below.

Individuals & business owners can be fined for not having insurance, taxes will climb, alternative taxes are in the works, e.g. VAT, doesn't add cross-state lines purchasing of insurance, doesn't eliminate mandates, does cut Medicare, will ration care, will raise costs to all incomes, excempts Congress, doesn't prohibit abortion, guts Medicare Advantage, will cover illegal aliens (under equal protection), adds millions to medical roles without additional doctors, reduces payments to doctors, and will, ultimately, become mandatory then like Medicare now if you want to retain private coverage insurers won't reduce your payments but they'll not have to pay upwards of 80% making the government your 'prime' carrier, and o'robin hood's socialist scheme will ballon the deficit and overall national debt (which now is around $107 Trillion, exceeding the total GDP of the entire world!) -- rfh

Excerpts from http://www.nrlc.org/HealthCareRationing/SenFinCommBill.html :

"The Senate Finance Committee is expected to take a final vote to report out its bill on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) is at work supervising negotiations to combine it with the bill reported out of the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee last July .

The Senate Finance Committee bill contains important elements that would greatly impact the ability of patients to receive unrationed medical care. And there are other places in the bill where the Secretary of Health and Human Services is given discretion to regulate the treatment that healthcare providers can give to their patients.

The bill does contain language to prevent the use of comparative effectiveness analysis in a manner that would discriminatorily deny treatment because of age, disability, or terminal illness^[1]; however, this provision would not affect the financial incentive to ration care as described below. The bill's funding partially comes from by a means that would keep up with what Americans spend on health care; however, half of the funding comes from cuts in Medicare spending^[2] that would result in rationing life-saving treatment for senior citizens.

One particularly dangerous provision penalizes doctors based on how much medical treatment they direct for senior citizens on Medicare. It establishes that for at least five years, beginning in 2014, Medicare physicians who authorize treatments for their patients that wind up in the top 10% of per capita cost for a year will lose 5% of their total Medicare reimbursements for that year. ^[3]"

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