Manzullo badmouths his government health plan, says unions get a better deal
July 28th, 2009 at 09:18am Pat Cunningham
 
 (Photo courtesy of McHenry County Blog)
 Conventional wisdom holds that the health insurance provided for members of Congress is a pretty sweet deal.
 But U.S. Rep. Don Manzullo, a Republican who represents the Rockford area, begs to differ.
 Read about it HERE and HERE. (Note: This stuff is a couple of weeks old, but it has only now come to my attention.)
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1. Billybeermonicagar | July 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am
This Obama led health care program looks great!
Here are some HC Horrors skimmed from it:
PG 22 - Mandates the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure.
PG 30, Sec 123 - A new Govt committee decides what treatments/benefits you get.
PG 29 - lines 4-16 - Your HC is rationed.
PG 42 - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC benefits for you. you have no choice.
PG 50, Section 152 - HC will be provided to ALL US residents, including non-citizens, legal or illegal.
PG 58 - Govt will have real-time access to individual finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued.
PG 59, Lines 21-24 - Govt will have direct access to your bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
PG 65, Sec 164 - A payoff for trade unions & community organizations (e.g. -ACORN) retirees and their families - their own subsidized HC plan.
PG 72, Lines 8-14 - Govt is creating a HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Govt control.
PG 84, Sec 203 - Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange.
PG 85, Line 7 - Specs for of benefit levels for plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare.
PG 91, Lines 4-7 - Govt mandates linguistic services; i.e., - translation for illegal aliens.
PG 95, Lines 8-18 - The Govt will use groups; e.g., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan.
PG 85, Line 7 - Specs of benefit levels for plans. AARP members - you HC WILL be rationed.
PG 102, Lines 12-18 - Medicaid eligible individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
PG 124, Lines 24 - No company can sue Govt on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt monopoly.
PG 127, Lines 1-16 - Govt will decree doctor income.
PG 145, Line 15-17 An employer MUST enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE.
PG 126, Lines 22-25 - Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
PG 149, Lines 16-24 - ANY Employer w/payroll $400k & above who does not provide pub opt. pays 8% tax on all payroll
PG 150, Lines 9-13 - Employer w/payroll between $251k & $400k who doesn’t provide pub. opt pays 2-6% tax on all payroll
PG 167, Lines 18-23 - ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Govt rules will be taxed 2.5% of income.
PG 170, Lines 1-3 - Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay for their HC while they are here.)
PG 195 - Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans’ financial & personal records.
PG 203, Line 14-15 - “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax” Yes, it says that.
PG 239, Line 14-24 - Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected.
PG 241, Line 6-8 - All doctors no matter what specialty, skills or training will be paid the same.
PG 253, Line 10-18 - Govt sets value of doctors’ time, professional judgement, etc. Literally government placing a value on human skills and human time.
PG 265, Sec 1131 - Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.
PG 268, Sec 1141 - Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs
PG 272 SEC. 1145 - Treatment of Certain cancer Hospitals - Cancer patients - welcome to rationing.
Page 280, Sec 1151 - The Govt will penalize hospitals for what Govt deems preventable readmissions.
PG 298, Lines 9-11 - Doctors who treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission will be penalized by Govt .
PG 317, Lines 13-20 - Prohibition/limits of doctors’ ownership/investment. Govt tells doctors what/how much they can own.
PG 317-318, Lines 21-25, 1-3 - Govt mandates hospitals cannot expand
PG 321 2-13 - Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception with community input required. Another job for ACORN, PETA, or any envirowacko’s.
PG 335, L 16-25 PG 336-339 - Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the Govt way. Rationing.
PG 341, Lines 3-9 - Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare, HMO’s, private fee for service plans and force people into Govt plan.
PG 354, Sec 1177 - Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of special needs people. All you folks with Downes, cerebral palsy, polio and amputees report to the crematorium, stat.
PG 379, Sec 1191 - Govt creates more bureaucracy - Telehealth Advisory Committee. Can you say HC by phone?
PG 425, Lines 4-12 - Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consultations. Another bureaucaracy of ‘helping professionals’ to take your parents from you.
PG 425, Lines 17-19 - Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory participation.
PG 425, Lines 22-25, 426, Lines 1-3 - Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you to death
PG 427, Lines 15-24 - Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends.
PG 429, Lines 1-9 - An “advance care planning consultant” will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates
PG 429, Lines 10-12 - “advance care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. An ORDER from Government about ending your loved one’s life.
PG 429, Lines 13-25 - The Govt will specify which doctors can write an end of life order.
2. Neftali | July 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am
billy - Great information, but can you link your source to this information?
if its true, this is Socialism at its finest, and a direct attack on our personal freedoms and liberties. If this passes, we might as well have “government slave” tattooed on all our foreheads.
Fortunately, the Senate version that is being drafted is much more reasonable. It doesn’t include the private government insurance option.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/28/house-senate-lawmakers-race-advance-health-care-reform/
3. realfoxnews | July 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
What they should do let the BOBO Health run supporters have it. We keep ares. With no turning back on BOBO. But when your still waiting for your MRI after a few months and my surgery is done already don’t say we told you so. Because you Demshits know it all.
4. shawnnews | July 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
You are right for asking for sources, Neftali. At least you didn;t claim it was true like Billybeer did. I had a hunch this is from one of the right-wing emails. I cut and pasted the line that starts with Pg 22. and put it in the Google search engine. I got the same thing Billybeer posted verbatim from various blogs and the free republic website.
Once again: If you are going to be against something be against what it actually says rather than just forwarding some trash.
5. shawnnews | July 28th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I did a little more digging and found the claims listed by billybeer and supposedly from someone named Peter Fleckstein or Fleckman. The exact post made by Billybeer is also on
http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/presentations/2009/0724.html
There is a link to the bill.
The first claim “PG 22 - Mandates the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure.” is false.
They are advising a study of insured and self-insured employers. Nothing on this page mentions an audit.
If the first claim can be shot down I fgure most of the others are straw men too.
6. Neftali | July 28th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Shawnnews - What do you think a “study” is? IT’S AN AUDIT. Plain and simple. There is nothing false about it.
I’ve compared what was posted to the initial house draft, and at least the first dozen or so that I checked match up perfectly.
The initial house draft can be found here:
http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
7. Art | July 28th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I did not know that Congress had a cafeteria plan. I have a friend that works for the Federal EPA. I knew they could choose. He joined the Postal Workers Union 20 years ago, on paper only, because they had the best insurance of all Federal options as far as insurance. Not sure if that is still the case today.
8. Craig Knauss | July 28th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I worked for the Dept of Army from ‘75 - ‘86. Their health plans and retirement plans sucked back then. I hope it got better, because it couldn’t have gotten any worse than it was then.
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