An Updated List of What’s Really in the ObamaCare Bill

The Editors

Note: the page references below may change as the bill goes through changes. It is not final yet.

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

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

• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer – they say in order to allow automated reconciliation with the related health care payment and remittance.

• 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 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 for participating plans .

• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8 percent 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 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.

• Page 272: a review of cancer hospital payments will be undertaken and costs adjusted accordingly.

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

• 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 425: care provider must consult with government body regarding advanced care. 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.

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

• 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. This is an ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services:

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

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