Obamacare Sets Up a Health Dictatorship
Published: 2009-09-10 22:30:44
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld | New American | August 13, 2009
Now that the Obama Healthcare Reform Bill has been posted on the Internet, anyone can read it. It is over one thousand pages long, and its complexity defies any easy understanding. A healthcare system so devilishly complex, run by the same government that owns and operates the public schools, the Post Office, Amtrak, and other notoriously inefficient public enterprises, is guaranteed to be a disaster for the American people.
For all practical purposes, the Commissioner will have the power of a Czar, or dictator, over the new national healthcare system. The bill also establishes an Office of the Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange. The Special Inspector General will be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He will “conduct, supervise, and coordinate audits, evaluations and investigations of the Health Insurance Exchange, as well as the health and welfare of participants in the Exchange.”
The trappings of a police state will come with the law’s enforcement mechanism. It will include “an enforcement process that includes timely investigation of complaints, random audits to ensure compliance, civil monetary and programmatic penalties for non-compliance consistent with existing laws and regulations, and a fair and reasonable appeals process building off of enforcement provisions under this part.”
If you are one of those taxpayers who finds the Internal Revenue Code treacherously complicated, wait until the National Healthcare system is in place. Its regulations and enforcement will create new nightmares for the average American, for no one will be able to escape the net.
The new law will effect everyone every day: average Americans going for routine checkups, doctors and how they practice, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, hospitals, nursing homes, medical schools, dietitians, therapists, employers, employees, pharmaceutical companies, drug distribution, infant inoculations. It will also effect your Social Security payments, your taxes, your retirement plans. And, of course, it will effect the insurance industry big time.
The law will also create a vast new army of government bureaucrats and a data collection system in which every individual American will be registered. In that file will be a complete picture of your life, from birth to death, your diseases, your hospital stays, your family relations, what you eat, your habits, your religion (so they know where to bury you), and to what extent you should be cared for in your old age.
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Published: 2009-09-10 22:30:44
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld | New American | August 13, 2009
Now that the Obama Healthcare Reform Bill has been posted on the Internet, anyone can read it. It is over one thousand pages long, and its complexity defies any easy understanding. A healthcare system so devilishly complex, run by the same government that owns and operates the public schools, the Post Office, Amtrak, and other notoriously inefficient public enterprises, is guaranteed to be a disaster for the American people.
Since the public schools
cripple the minds of American children and produce functional
illiterates by the million, which they call education, there is every
good reason to believe that a national healthcare system will actually
destroy American health rather than improve it.
The new legislation sets up a Health Choices Administration with a Health Choices Commissioner. The bill (Sec. 141) reads:
"There is hereby established an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government, a Health Choices Administration….The Administration shall be headed by a Health Choices Commissioner who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate."
His duties will include establishing “qualified health benefit plan standards under this title, including the enforcement of such standards in coordination with State insurance regulators and the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury.” He will also establish and operate a Health Insurance Exchange, and be in charge of Individual Affordability Credits and determining eligibility for such credits.For all practical purposes, the Commissioner will have the power of a Czar, or dictator, over the new national healthcare system. The bill also establishes an Office of the Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange. The Special Inspector General will be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He will “conduct, supervise, and coordinate audits, evaluations and investigations of the Health Insurance Exchange, as well as the health and welfare of participants in the Exchange.”
The trappings of a police state will come with the law’s enforcement mechanism. It will include “an enforcement process that includes timely investigation of complaints, random audits to ensure compliance, civil monetary and programmatic penalties for non-compliance consistent with existing laws and regulations, and a fair and reasonable appeals process building off of enforcement provisions under this part.”
If you are one of those taxpayers who finds the Internal Revenue Code treacherously complicated, wait until the National Healthcare system is in place. Its regulations and enforcement will create new nightmares for the average American, for no one will be able to escape the net.
The new law will effect everyone every day: average Americans going for routine checkups, doctors and how they practice, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, hospitals, nursing homes, medical schools, dietitians, therapists, employers, employees, pharmaceutical companies, drug distribution, infant inoculations. It will also effect your Social Security payments, your taxes, your retirement plans. And, of course, it will effect the insurance industry big time.
The law will also create a vast new army of government bureaucrats and a data collection system in which every individual American will be registered. In that file will be a complete picture of your life, from birth to death, your diseases, your hospital stays, your family relations, what you eat, your habits, your religion (so they know where to bury you), and to what extent you should be cared for in your old age.
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