A Healthy Reason for Alarm

I have been disturbed by our president's healthcare bill. Even though I don't watch t.v. or read the newspaper, or even follow news on the computer, I know enough to be very concerned. The best information I have found has come from Focus on the Family from Liberty Counsel. Because I know this is confusing to most of us and also because I think it is difficult to find trustworthy sources of information, I am sharing this from a Liberty Counsel email:

"We recently saw an overview of the healthcare bill being debated in Congress (HR 3200). We found the overview so alarming that we doubted its accuracy, so the staff in our D.C. office compared it to the voluminous bill.

What they found astonished us so much that we had to share it with you today. You can read our updated and revised overview of HR 3200 and you will be alarmed, too.

You can also read the text of HR 3200 - directly from a government website - to see for yourself how dangerous this government healthcare takeover would be.

Of course, it is not enough to be alarmed and do nothing! Congress is going on recess soon, but you can be assured that the liberals behind this bill will not be at rest. They will hold public meetings and try to convince their constituents that government healthcare is the only option.

It is time to visit the Senators and Representatives in their local offices in your state. Take copies of our document on HR 3200 with you so they can understand your concerns.

Read more about the consequences of this bill in Matt Barber's article "Is There a Co-Pay with Forced Abortion?" Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs for Liberty Counsel and Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law.


Read more about the specific threats this health care plan poses on our Liberty Counsel Group Discussion Board. But here are a few examples:


• Sect. 123, Pg 30 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.

• Sect. 142, Pg 42 of HC Bill - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your benefits for you. You have no choice!

• Sect. 152, Pg 50-51 in HC bill - HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise

• Sect. 163, Pg 58-59 beginning at line 5 of HC Bill - Government will have real-time access to individual’s finances & a National ID Health care card will be issued!

• Sect. 163, Pg 59, lines 21-24 of HC Bill—Government will have direct access to your banks accounts for electronic funds transfer

• Sect. 312, Pg 145, Line 15-17 of HC Bill—An Employer MUST auto-enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE.

• Sect. 401.59B, Pg 167, Lines 18-23—ANY individual who does not have acceptable HC, according to Government, will be taxed 2.5% of income.

• Sect.59B, Pg 170 Lines, 1—Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay for alien healthcare.)

• Sect. 1121, Pg 239, Line 14-24 of HC Bill—Government will limit and reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income and poor are the ones affected.

• Sect. 1121, Pg 241, Line 6-8 of HC Bill—Doctors, it does not matter what specialty you have; you’ll all be paid the same. “Service categories established under this paragraph shall apply without regard to the specialty of the physician furnishing the service.”

• Sect. 1122, Pg 253, Line 10-18—Government “validates relative value unit’s” (sets value of Doctor’s) time, professional judgment, methods etc. Literally, the value of humans.

• Sect. 1145, Pg 272—Treatment of certain cancer hospitals – Cancer patients and their treatment are open to rationing!

• Sect. 1156, Pg 317, Line 13-20—“PROHIBITION on Physician Ownership or Investment.” Government tells Doctors what/how much they can own.

• Sect. 1156, Pg 317-318, Lines 21-25, 1-3—“PROHIBITION on Expansion of Facility Capacity.” Government is mandating hospitals cannot expand (“number of operating rooms or beds”).

• Sect. 1177, Pg 354—Government will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! “Extension of Authority of Special Needs Plans to Restrict Enrollment.”

• Sect. 1233, Pg 425, Lines 17-19—Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills and durable powers of attorney. Mandatory!

• Sect. 1233, Pg 427, Lines 15-24—Government mandates program for orders for life-sustaining treatment (i.e. end of life). The Government has a say in how your life ends.

• Sect. 1233, Pg 429, Lines 10-12 “Advanced Care Consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVERNMENT!

• Sect. 1233, Pg 430, Lines 11-15—The Government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life according to pre-set methods (not individually decided).

• Sect. 1501 (beginning), Pg 659-670—Doctors in Residency – Government will tell you where your residency will be, thus where you’ll live.

• Sect. 1711, Pg 764—Government will require Preventative Services including vaccines. (Choice?)

• Sect.1751, Pg 800 Sec 1751—The Government will decide which Health Care conditions will be paid. Say “RATION!”

• Sect. 1904, Pg 843-844—This Home Visitation Program includes the Government coming into your house and teaching/telling you how to parent!!!

• Sect. 2002, Pg 858—Government will establish a Public Health Fund at a cost of $88,800,000,000. Yes that’s Billion.

• Sect. 3121, Pg 935, Line 1-2—Government will develop “Healthy People & National Public Health Performance Standards.” They will tell me what to eat?

• Sect. 2521, Pg 1000—The Government will establish a National Medical Device Registry. Will you be tracked?"