Gun Owners of America (GOA) is warning that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.o still contains measures that will allow doctors, insurance companies, and the ATF to use medical records to further a gun control agenda.
GOA points out that it opposed “the original Obamacare” because it threatened Second Amendment rights and they are concerned about Ryan’s new healthcare push for the same reasons.
They stress three changes that are needed.
The first thing GOA points out is that Ryan’s bill “needs to be amended to prohibit the ATF from trolling the national health database, or Medicaid, or any new entitlement program for persons with PTSD, Alzheimer’s, ADHD, or merely ‘anxiety.’” GOA says the recently repealed Social Security gun ban allowed such trolling, which opened the door to the ATF growing the list of the persons prohibited from gun ownership based on otherwise private information gathered from health records.
Secondly, GOA says Ryan’s healthcare replacement “needs to be amended to prohibit insurance companies from asking about gun ownership.” Such questions result in an increased insurance rates–“as a result of gun ownership”–or in the all-out denial of insurance to begin with.
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4 comments:
My medical provider already asks the gun ownership question every time I get my annual physical. And I answer her the same way every time she asks. I tell her it none of her business, and I refuse to say whether I do, or do not, own any firearms. She always apologizes for asking and say it is just a question they include on the list of "health" questions she is required to ask. And she reminds me that I am not required to answer the question, just that she is required to ask.
No worries, it failed to get enough support.
Ryan is no better that that bone head Boahner.
Republicans will you PLEASE get rid of that stupid RINO Paul Ryan he is a disgrace and an embarassment to all conservatives.
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