Senator Bayh,
As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcare bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government's proposed involvement in the patient physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a healthcare system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our healthcare system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed.
I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens.
Page 22 of the HC Bill : Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT. COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
Page 42 of HC Bill :The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice!
Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.
Page 58 HC Bill : Govt. will have real-time access to individuals finances & a national ID Healthcard will be issued!
Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt. will have direct access to your bank accounts for 'elective' funds transfer.
Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN).
Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt. mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill : Specifications for Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt. will ration your Healthcare!
Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill : Govt. mandates linguistic appropriate services. Translation: our tax dollars pay for illegal aliens to always have a translator.
Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt. will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt. HC plan.
Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill : Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members - your Health care WILL be rationed.
Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill : Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT. on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Govt. Monopoly.
Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill : Doctors/American Medical Association - The Govt. will tell YOU what you can make! (salary)
Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE!
Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll..
Page 150 Lines 9-13: Businesses with payroll btw 251k & 401k who don't provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll.
Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn't have acceptable HC according to Govt. will be taxed 2.5% of income.
Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill : Any NON-RESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay).
Page 195 HC Bill : Officers & employees of HC Admin. (GOVT.) will have access to ALL Americans finances/personal records.
Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that!
Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill : Govt. will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected.
Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill : Doctors --doesn't matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same!
Page 25! 3 Line 1 0-18: Govt. sets value of Doctor's time, profession, judgment, etc. Literally value of humans.
Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt. mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.
Page 268 Sec 1141: Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS- Cancer patients - welcome to rationing!
Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt. will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt. deems preventable re-admissions.
Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission - Govt... will penalize you.
Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt. tells Doctors what/how much they can own!
Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion - Govt. is mandating hospitals cannot expand.
Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. (ACORN?!!)
Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt. mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing.
Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt. has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt. plan.
Page 354 Sec 1177: Govt. will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! Unbelievable!
Page 379 Sec 1191: Govt. creates more bureaucracy - Tele-health Advisory Comittee. Can you say HC by phone?
Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt. mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life patients.
Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt. will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!
Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt. provides approved list of end of life sources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide)
Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life! The Govt has a say in how your life ends.
Page 429 Lines 1-9: An "advanced care planning consultant" will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates.
Page 429 Lines 10-12: "advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT.!
Page 429 Lines 13-25: The Govt. will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.
Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt. will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life!
Page 469: Community Based Home Medical Services= Non-profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!?
Page 494-498: Govt. will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services.
Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating.
Furthermore, If you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor/patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election.
Respectfully,
Stephen E. Fraser MD
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OK people. If we don't start to work together on a compromise, this is the system we will get. Everyone on this blog is from the far right or the far left. If these types of arguments keep going - we will all be stuck with the results.
ReplyDeleteMan, sounds like what the insurance companies are already doing.
ReplyDelete9:18 you are an idiot. This will increase the cost of health care and reduce your benefits. At least now you can leave one company and have The CHOICE to go with another.
ReplyDeleteYou can get instant health care and not put on a waiting list. You can decide the best form of treatment. If this passes the government will decide for you what they think is best. Can you say Communism.
12:28 What choice? Your employer picks the insurance and tells you what it will be.
ReplyDeleteInstant healthcare....you made a dematology appointment lately?
9:18 We need a compromise? I don't want a compromise! I don't want socialized medicine! I want it to be a dead issue!
ReplyDelete9:18 You on medicare? It is socialized medicine. If not, then I guess you are going to refuse it when you qualify.
ReplyDeleteMany of the govt services you enjoy are socialized. Fire Depts, Police Depts, Libraries and Schools for example. Your I dont want socialized health care argument holds no water. Especially because you have no idea what you are even saying...
ReplyDelete""Many of the govt services you enjoy are socialized. Fire Depts, Police Depts, Libraries and Schools for example. Your I dont want socialized health care argument holds no water.""
ReplyDeleteYou idiot. You need some form of laws, civil and criminal, and the enforcement of them and other basic services, just so you don't have anarchy. So contracts are honored and the free market/capitalism can work. You also need a military to defend the nation. To extend that and say because you have these basic services for the nation to exist, that we might as well socilaize the entire country is moronic.
There must be a lot of bad things in the governments health care bill or why won't the government let the citizens read it and judge for themselfs?
ReplyDeleteLook it up on snopes. This letter circulated for months annonymously before it was attributed to either physician. I always look letters and claims like this up before believing any of it because many of them turn out to be either an urban legend or have just a small amount of truth in them.
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