Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Friday, August 14, 2009 9:35:19 AM
I have read through the "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009"
I can tell you it is not American, affordable, healthy, or a choice. It is an act.
A List
- Any proposed legislation will be posted on the internet at least five days before it is voted on so the people can read the bill and give their input.
- Earmarks, or pork, will be stopped. I will veto any bill with earmarks attached to it.
- Lobbyists will have no place in my administration or in Washington.
- All I ever heard from Rev. Wright on Sundays was about God, love, and Jesus Christ.
- When I met Bill Ayers I knew nothing about his past.
- I never had any association with ACORN.
- I knew nothing about Tony Rezko’s illegal acts.
- I am not a Muslim, I never attended a Muslim school, and I was not raised as a Muslim.
- I am not a socialist.
- I do not want to take over automobile companies. I have enough on my plate already.
- I met Michelle while we were in college.
- Our stimulus bill will keep the unemployment rate at or below 8%. It will never rise higher than 8%.
- General Motors is too big and and has too many working Americans to just let it go bankrupt.
- My administration will be the most open and transparent in history.
All of the above statements should be easily recognizable in two ways. First, they all came out of the pie hole of Barack Obama. Second, they are all lies that he knew were lies when he said them, the worst kind of lie, intentional.
And those are just off the top of my head, I’m sure there have been MANY others I am not aware of.
So, when Obama stands in front of his beloved teleprompter, telling us about the health care bill, and says…
- there is no provision for rationed health care in the health care reform bill,
- you will be able to keep your doctor and insurance plan if you wish,
- the bill will be revenue neutral,
- it will not be government controlled, socialized medicine,
- it will not come between you and your doctor,
- it will provide coverage for everyone,
- it will only do away with the waste and fraud,
- the medical industry is so bad that something HAS to be done, that we can’t just do nothing,
- the AMA and AARP endorse the bill,
can we, knowing about his blatant dishonesty, trust him in anything he says about the health care reform bill, or anything for that matter?
New Discovery! (I think)
I believe I’ve discovered another unreported evil in the bill. On page 100, Sect 205(d)(1), Coverage for Certain Newborns, there is a description of how an infant, born with no approved health care, shall be, within 60 days, classified as a non-traditional Medicaid eligible individual. Sounds innocent enough. But on page 749, Section 1943(b)(1), Treatment of Certain Newborns, it says, "In the case of a child who is deemed under Sect. 205(d)(1) of this act to be a non-traditional Medicaid eligible individual and enrolled under this title pursuant to such section, the State shall provide for a determination by not later than the end of the period referred to in subparagraph (A) of such section, of the child’s eligibility for medical assistance under this title."
I read that to mean that the child may/can be denied treatment if the parents do not register the child in this plan BEFORE the child is born. It is coercion to insure parents’ compliance with the plan.
Geography of the bill (No map)
Overall, the bill is structured in a manner meant to hide such offensive provisions and be confusing and hard to find anything using the Table of Contents. The TOC has no page numbers, at least not in the PDF I obtained. The TOC is divided into Divisions labeled A, B, C, etc., each of those have several Titles labeled I, II, III, etc., with the numbering being restarted in each division, and each Title has Subtitles labeled A, B, C, etc.
But, the actual layout of the bill is organized by Sections beginning with 100, 101, 102, etc., subsections labeled (a), (b), (c), etc. and sub-subsections labeled (1), (2), (3), etc. Each of these sub-subsections has sub-paragraphs labeled (A), (B), (C), etc.
To reference anything such that someone else can actually find your reference you need to use, Page, Section(subsect)(sub-subsect), Subparagraph, as I did above.
Example: Page 100, Section 205 (d)(1) subparagraph A.
You can not, at least not quickly, find anything by Division, Title, and Subtitle, as these are major, very large delineations. 1018 pages with just three Divisions means thumbing through at least 300 pages to find if you are in the right Division, the one after, or the one before the one you want. And with subtitles and subparagraphs both using capital letters, and every other sub-anything using small letters, trying to find what you want on any page is sleep inducing. Things could have, should have been made simple by incorporating, uhhh, let’s see, hmmmm…. ?PAGE NUMBERS? in the Table of Contents. These guys never fail to amaze with their absolute disdain for the people. And THEY are the stupid ones, not US. I’ll show them disdain.
Anyway, this bill is everything they claim that it’s not, everything they say they don’t want, and is exactly what they say won’t or couldn’t ever pass the Senate. LIARS!!
Glenn Flowers