The Senate Health Care Bill: My Disease Is More PC Than Your Disease

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Yukio Ngaby of Critical Narrative has read the entire 615 page Senate "health care" bill being promoted as the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [HELP] bill. In a series of posts, he is offering some excellent insights into why this bill is, in reality, "a Trojan Horse for single payer."

The first 20 pages of the Senate bill alone will burden private insurers with a raft of "new micro-managing regulations and intrusive oversights" that will put them out of business. Here's a taste of what private insurers will be required to do:

• offer coverage determined by a presidential council;
• accept every applicant for life (pp. 9 & 10);
• open their books to the administration, (p. 10);
• pay annual rebates of premium payments, as determined by the presidential administration (p. 11);
• pay doctors for following the government's idea of good treatment (p. 14).

As Yukio points out, not even the U.S. Postal Service, which doesn't even have to pay taxes, buy license plates for its vehicles, or pay rent on most of its facilities, can keep out of debt while operating under government micro-management.

And, of course, as Oregon's health care rationing plan (the first in the nation) demonstrates, the government's idea of health care is determined by political response to pressure groups, not by medical science. That's why abortions, smoking-cessation, and treatment for mild depression have high priority in the Oregon rationing plan, while life-threatening medical problems like advanced cancer, gangrene, and serious head and neck injuries have low (or no) priority.

Looks like Congress wants Americans to compete with each other for health care based on political correctness.

I wonder. Will that lobby group for your particular health problem be able to compete with the agenda of the SEIU and ACORN?

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