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04-02-2009, 06:21 PM
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 Nationwide Call To Action Health Plan Threatens to Feed Your Gun-related Data Into a National Database --- And charge you $10,000 a year for the privilege Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151 Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408 http://www.gunowners.org Thursday, April 2, 2009 In a year when trillion dollar bailouts have become routine, many Americans have become almost numb to our acceleration towards socialism. But gun rights activists aren't in that crowd, and so GOA has to inform you of yet ANOTHER threat to your privacy, the Second Amendment, and even your wallet. It is called an "individual mandate" or, alternatively, the "Massachusetts plan." And over the weekend, both the Washington Post and the New York Times worked hard to build momentum for it. First, a little history. We alerted you a few weeks ago to the gun control provisions in the stimulus bill that President Obama signed in February. Our government will now spend between $12 and $20 BILLION to require the medical community to retroactively put our most confidential medical records into a government database -- a database that could easily be used to deny veterans (and other law-abiding Americans) who have sought psychiatric treatment for things such as PTSD. Currently, gun owners can avoid getting caught in this database by refusing to purchase health insurance or by purchasing insurance with a carrier that has not signed an agreement with the government to place your records in a national database. But that's all about to change. A budget resolution -- to be voted on this Friday in the Senate -- will be the first domino in a process that could FORCE you to buy government-approved insurance, thus making it impossible to avoid the medical database. Put another way: If you do not have health insurance -- or, potentially, if you do not have the TYPE of health insurance the government wants you to have -- the government will force you to purchase what it regards as "acceptable" health insurance. And, in most cases, you will have to pay for it out of your own pocket. What would all this cost? Based on comparable insurance currently on the market, it could cost $10,000 a year -- or more. If you were jobless, the socialists would probably spot you the ten grand. But if you are middle class and can't pay $10,000 because of your mortgage payments, your small business, or your kids' college education, you would be fined (over $1,000 a year currently in Massachusetts). And, if you couldn't pay the confiscatory fine, you could ultimately be imprisoned. Scary, you say. But why is this a Second Amendment issue? Under the Massachusetts plan, your MANDATED insurance carrier has to feed your medical data into a centralized database -- freely accessible by the government under federal privacy laws. So... remember when your pediatrician asked your kid if you have a firearm in the home? Or when your dad was given a prescription for Zoloft because of his Alzheimer's? Or when your wife mentioned to her gynecologist that she had regularly smoked marijuana ten years ago? All of this would be in a centralized database. And all of it could potentially be used to vastly expand the "prohibited persons" list maintained by the FBI in West Virginia. How serious a threat is this? If it gets into the budget resolution the Senate will consider on Friday, it will be almost impossible to strip out later. It will be as much of a done-deal as the stimulus package was. We have asked senators to introduce language to prohibit such an individual mandate for socialized medicine that would violate the privacy of gun owners. In the absence of such an amendment, we are asking senators to vote against the budget resolution. ACTION: Write your U.S. Senators. Urge them to vote against the budget resolution if it does not contain language prohibiting a mandate that Americans buy government-approved health insurance against their will. Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the pre-written e-mail message below. ----- Pre-written letter ----- Dear Senator: A budget resolution that could end up requiring Americans to purchase expensive health insurance policies against their will is truly frightening. And equally alarming is the fact that such mandated health care coverage could easily become a shill for gun control. Potentially, anyone who does not have health insurance-- or does not have the TYPE of health insurance the government wants them to have -- will be forced to purchase "acceptable" health insurance and pay for it out of our own pockets. Based on the cost of comparable insurance currently on the market, that could cost $10,000 a year -- or more. That's bad enough. But far worse, such a "Massachusetts Plan" would MANDATE that an insurance carrier feed medical data into a centralized database -- freely accessible by the government under federal privacy laws. Hence, a kid's statement to his pediatrician about his parents' firearms... or a dad's prescription for Zoloft because of his Alzheimer's... or a wife's statement to her gynecologist about her regular use of marijuana ten years ago... could all turn up in a federal database and unconstitutionally expand the list of "prohibited persons." Individuals would have no ability to opt out. For all of these reasons, if the budget resolution does not contain language prohibiting an "individual mandate" regarding health care, I would ask that you oppose the budget resolution. Sincerely, your name here...  |
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04-02-2009, 06:34 PM
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| It just keeps getting better and better every day with the Obamanation. At the rate we are going in a couple of years Nazi Germany might look pretty good compared to what we have. They just had a dictator. We may have the anti-Christ.
__________________ By faith Noah,being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,prepared an ark to the saving of his house;by the which he condemned the world,and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith Heb.11:7 |
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04-02-2009, 06:48 PM
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04-02-2009, 07:56 PM
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 This is going to be hard find it as there are currently 62 health care related bill in the senate active at this time I wish these guys who send these emails out supplied correct info. |
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04-02-2009, 08:52 PM
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S. Con. Res. 13, the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Resolution Never had a single GOA Action Alert pre-written note come back asking for bill info... ALWAYS responded to by applicable rep... |
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04-02-2009, 10:43 PM
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SEC. 201. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO TRANSFORM AND MODERNIZE AMERICA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. (a) Transform and Modernize America’s Health Care System- The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution, and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger that are deficit-neutral over 11 years, for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that are deficit-neutral, reduce excess cost growth in health care spending and are fiscally sustainable over the long term, and-- (1) protect families’ financial health including restraining the growth of health premiums and other health-related costs; (2) make health coverage affordable to businesses, households, and governments, including by reducing wasteful and inefficient spending in the health care system with periodic reports on savings achieved through these efforts, and by moving forward with improvements to the health care delivery system, including Medicare; (3) aim for universality of health coverage; (4) provide portability of coverage and assurance of coverage with appropriate consumer protections; (5) guarantee choice of health plans and health care providers to Americans; (6) invest in prevention and wellness and address issues of health disparities; (7) improve patient safety and quality care, including the appropriate use of health information technology and health data, and promote transparency in cost and quality information to Americans; or (8) maintain long-term fiscal sustainability and pays for itself by reducing health care cost growth, improving productivity, or dedicating additional sources of revenue; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. (b) Other Revisions- The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports that-- (1) increase the reimbursement rate for physician services under section 1848(d) of the Social Security Act and that include financial incentives for physicians to improve the quality and efficiency of items and services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries through the use of consensus-based quality measures; (2) include measures to encourage physicians to train in primary care residencies and ensure an adequate supply of residents and physicians; or (3) improve the Medicare program for beneficiaries and protect access to outpatient therapy services (including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology services) through measures such as repealing the current outpatient therapy caps while protecting beneficiaries from associated premium increases; by the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2009 through 2019. Health. The Budget Resolution provides for: · Community Health Centers. The Budget Resolution provides $2.9 billion for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Fiscal Year 2010. These health centers are community-based providers of comprehensive primary and preventive health care that serve more than 16 million people, many of whom are uninsured or on Medicaid. · Health Professions & National Health Service Corp. The Budget Resolution provides funding for the Health Professions program and the National Health Service Corps to increase the number of health professionals practicing in medically underserved areas. · National Institutes of Health. The Budget Resolution continues to support funding for NIH in Fiscal Year 2010, including support for cancer research. · Food and Drug Administration. The Budget Resolution includes a reserve fund for deficit-neutral legislation that would strengthen the Food and Drug Administration's ability to ensure the products it regulates are safe for the public. |
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04-02-2009, 11:39 PM
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| And who pays for this? Oh I forgot the tax payers of course. That is unless Washington has a money tree growing at the Whitehouse I do not know about. I guess the + side is that we then can have health care as good as England or Canada. 
__________________ By faith Noah,being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,prepared an ark to the saving of his house;by the which he condemned the world,and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith Heb.11:7 |
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04-02-2009, 11:45 PM
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