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Section 122
Page 29: Your Health Care is RATIONED.
Section 123
Page 30: A Government Committee will decide what treatments/benefits you get … depending on a predetermined set of factors.
Section 142
Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your Health Care Benefits for you. You will have no choice in the matter.
Section 152
Page 50: Health Care will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise. (The Heller amendment would have allowed health agencies to conduct simple database checks to verify citizenship.)
What the bill says, pages 167-168, section 401, TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE:
‘‘(a) TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of—
(1) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over
(2) the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer. . . .”
EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGE:
1. This section amends the Internal Revenue Code.
2. Anyone caught without acceptable coverage and not in the government plan will pay a special tax.
3. The IRS will be a major enforcement mechanism for the plan.
(a) In General- In this division, the term `essential benefits package' means health benefits coverage, consistent with standards adopted under section 124 to ensure the provision of quality health care and financial security, that--
(3) does not impose any annual or lifetime limit on the coverage of covered health care items and services;
Page 29: Your Health Care is RATIONED.
(b) Duties-
(1) RECOMMENDATIONS ON BENEFIT STANDARDS- The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this subtitle referred to as the `Secretary') benefit standards (as defined in paragraph (4)), and periodic updates to such standards. In developing such recommendations, the Committee shall take into account innovation in health care and consider how such standards could reduce health disparities.
Section 123
Page 30: A Government Committee will decide what treatments/benefits you get … depending on a predetermined set of factors.