Sunday, November 08, 2009
A jubilant Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the passage of the Health Care Bill, violated her pledge to have the Health Care bill up on the Internet for 72-hours before a vote, and forced the vote at midnight during a weekend while America slept!
George Washington pictured behind Palosi would turn over in his grave if he knew that America accepted this loss of our freedom without a fight.
We have totally lost control of our government. It is no longer run for the benefit of its citizens by elected officials accountable to its electorate. Our representatives respond only to the money changers and their henchmen; the corporate Elite driven by greed, corruption and a lust for power and control of every aspect of our lives economically and spiritually. We will become mere serfs in a land that our forefathers gave their life's blood for unless we rise up en mass NOW to stop it!
I have listed a synopsis of the bill that passed the House of Representatives last night from Conservative Blogs Central:
As I ponder upon this momentously horrid occurrence it is as if I have just woken up from a nightmare and been thrown directly into the plot of George Orwell’s 1984, with no hope of escape. As this thought grabs hold I am lead to ponder more and more about America and I ask myself a few questions.
It is the everyday middle class American that will suffer the consequences of this travesty. Indeed, while the economy is reeling and unemployment pushes depression-era levels the arrogant Congress has decided to pass the biggest expansion of government in the history of the United States. It will create a new tax that will primarily be felt by the middle class, the ones most likely affected by the current depression. This is because as Americans are forced to purchase health insurance, the wealthy will have no problem paying for escalating costs. Nor will the poor feel the burden as they will receive government health insurance subsidies. Yet, the forgotten man will be the middle class working American who now already struggling against the burden of economic ruin will be forced to pay fines or even face possible jail time for not complying with our government’s take over of his/her health care. As this tax sinks in, the middle class will be forced downward into the ranks of the working poor and therefore into the ranks of government rationed medical care. Inevitably, government health care will swallow the whole of the medical insurance world and there will be no escape.
This dystopian vision will consist of patients waiting in long lines and when they are finally permitted to see their doctor there will be much fruitless begging and pleading for the treatment that they desperately need. But no mercy will be given because the doctor will have become nothing more than a desk-clerk, simply following the government treatment protocols.
"What, you have shoulder pain?" Your doctor asks. "Well, the treatment protocol for this condition provided by our majestic government says you have to wait two years to get a MRI or to see an Orthopedist. I am sorry. Here are a few pain pills. There is nothing more that I can do. Have a nice day."
* 5 new taxes that total up to a %18.4 reduction of income for Americans. I can’t even calculate the annual fee on insurance in Section 4375 because they didn’t define it
* 31 new Federal programs and bureaucracies each with incomprehensible allocations from public funds
* Specifically prohibits states from enacting tort reform by holding back Federal dollars if they enact medical liability limits
* Serious increase in the amount of people covered by Medicare without any new funding to cover (hello state and sales tax increases)
* the bill will pay for abortions
* Regulates the spending of private insurers but allows the government to spend whatever it wants
* Has a government-run public option paid for by the multitude of taxes listed above
* Only limits yearly out-of-pocket maximums to $10,000 for families. This is higher than most average private insurance plans
* Creates a $5 Billion pool to pay government option claims from your taxes…
* Gives Power to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enact waiting lists when government expenses get too high
* Eliminates new enrollment in current private insurance options after the bill is enacted into law
* Takes away the right of citizens to spend their own money on non-prescription drugs tax-free
* Prevents Americans from saving for their own health care emergencies by capping FSAs at $2500/yr
* Cuts Medicare by ~$500 Billion ($150 Billion+ of Medicare advantage cuts)
* Prevents expansion of medicare advantage programs
* Makes it easier to defraud Medicare
* Forces more people onto State Medicare programs while reducing funding under the Medicare DSH program
Now, what I have covered so far is very unpleasant but the Conservative Blogs website does not mention the punitive aspects of this bill that are so draconian as to imply that we are living in a Communist state. Here is the press release by the Committee On Ways & Means Republicans Ranking Member, Dave Camp.
Judge Andrew Napolitano had this to say before passage of the bill.
PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain "acceptable health insurance coverage" and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: "This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately."
Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:
"H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax." [page 1]
"If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…"[page 2]
"Criminal penalties
Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:
• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years."[page 3]
When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000fine and five years in jail.
"The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates.
According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.
Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.
The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure.
We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience. The government wants you to follow the will of some faceless bureaucrat.
We have rejected as a nation the God of our fathers. We have become lazy and complacent, self indulgent and cowardly not willing to pay the price that freedom and liberty require of us.
We have let corporate evil reign and do not have the will to stop it. This evil legislation is the result. We will bear the yolk and fruit of this wickedness unless we change our ways and seek the God of our fathers. We have turned our back as a nation on the God who gave us strength and power and made us the envy of the world.
"But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--'
When calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
"Then they will call on me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes." Proverbs 1:24-31.
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