Health Care and You... HR 3200 Controlling Costs

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Quick Facts About Obamacare
by Art Kelly

• The Obama-backed House Democratic Health Care bill, HR 3200, which has already been favorably reported out of three committees, would slash spending for Medicare by more than $500 Billion, ration treatments for everyone, encourage euthanasia for the elderly, and provide federal funding of elective abortions.

• President Obama told the New York Times, "The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here. There is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place."


• To control costs, Sections 122, 123, 142, 203, 312, and 1145 in HR 3200 require rationing of health care. A government committee will decide which treatments will be available under what circumstances. A Health Choices Commissioner will determine what benefits everyone can receive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) “shall provide for an appropriate adjustment” in the costs for hospital treatments of cancer.
  
• Expensive diagnostic tests, such as MRIs and CT scans will be strictly limited for everyone.


• Seniors and those suffering from major illnesses would be denied the vital treatments they need--including expensive drugs and life saving surgeries--because, under the value system of Obamacare, the "costs" will exceed the "benefits."
  
• Section 1233, Advance Care Planning Consultation, in HR 3200 requires all seniors to be given at least every five years (more often if there is a significant change in his or her health) a compulsory "explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title."


• That consultation would must contain an explanation why a directive to end their life would be “beneficial to the individual and the individual’s family.” Subsection (5)(A) provides that “life sustaining treatment” can be ended by an order of any “health care professional as specified by the Secretary (of HHS)…including a nurse practitioner or physician assistant.”


• Obamacare is the most anti-senior bill ever introduced in Congress. It seeks to eliminate those who they consider to be a burden on society.
  
• The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is already encouraging euthanasia for severely wounded warriors by publishing a booklet, Your Life, Your Choices, by Dr. Robert Pearlman, an advocate of health care rationing and physician-assisted suicide. This federal publication encourages injured military personnel to consider that their life may be “not worth living.”


• That's the same future our grandparents, our parents, and we ourselves will face if Obama’s government-run medicine is enacted into law.


• The House bill, HR 3200, would circumvent the current law that prohibits federal funding of Medicaid abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. The National Right to Life Committee says the bill would produce the greatest expansion of unlimited abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.