Dec 19 2009

Must-read Analysis of the Senate Democrats’ Health Care Bill

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It appears that Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb), the final Democratic holdout on health care, has caved on abortion - having sold out for an extra year of federal Medicaid subsidies for his state, and that Reid’s disastrous (for literally every American) Managers Amendment will move forward toward passage. The highly unpopular vote will be scheduled for a vote in the dead of night (yes, Obamaism is indeed worse than socialism).

As for just how bad it is for America, the Heritage Foundation has analyzed the Manager’s Amendment and it’s abstract tells the story:

The Senate health care bill would overhaul the entire health care sector of the U.S. economy by erecting massive federal controls over private health insurance, dictating the content of insurance benefit packages and the use of medical treatments, procedures, and medical devices. It would alter the relationship between the federal government and the states, transferring massive regulatory power to the federal government. The bill would also restrict the personal and economic freedom of American citizens by imposing controversial and unprecedented mandates on businesses and individuals, including an individual mandate to buy insurance.

And that’s just the beginning. It actually is worse than anyone could have imagined:

The U.S. Senate is locked in an intense floor debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), a massive 2,074-page health care bill that would directly affect every man, woman, and child in the United States. Its enactment would shape the character and quality of life in America for generations to come.

The Senate bill’s complex and sweeping provisions would affect virtually every aspect of the huge health care sector of the U.S. economy.

* Like the House bill,[1] it would transfer massive regulatory authority from the states to the federal government and make enormous changes in the nation’s health insurance markets;
* It would dramatically alter the financing and content of employer-provided and individual health insurance and significantly change Medicare and Medicaid;
* It would change how hospitals, doctors, and other medical professionals are paid and how physicians and other medical professionals deliver care; and
* It would impose controversial and unprecedented mandates on businesses and individuals, including an individual mandate to buy insurance,[2] thus restricting the personal and economic freedom of American citizens.

In effect, the Senate bill would produce the greatest concentration of political and economic power over one major sector of the U.S. economy in the nation’s history.

Readers should take the time to read it all, then melt the phone lines and load the emails of their Senator with a clear message to vote not just no but hell no to Reid’s Manager’s Amendment.

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