Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council

Would you agree to getting rid of these government programs?

Personal Income Tax Division of the IRS
National Endowment for the Arts
National Wild Horse and Burro Program (HUH?)
Dept. of Education
Dept of Energy
FEMA (a corrupt organization if there ever was one–leave it to charities)
FDIC (a sham program with only a fraction of funds needed to save banks)
Freddy Mac & Fannie Mae (helped cause present economic conditions)
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)
Administration for Native Americans (ANA)
Children’s Bureau (CB)
Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB)
Head Start Bureau (HSB)
Healthy Marriage Initiative (HMI)
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
Office of Community Services Block Grant (OCS)
Office of Family Assistance (OFA) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Indian Health Service (IHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Office of Minority Health (OMH)
Program Support Center (PSC)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin.(SAMHSA)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT)
Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI)
Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP)
Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
Women’s Bureau (WB)
Job Corps
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Internet Access and Training Program
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Bureau of Human Resources
Bureau of Information Resource Management
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Bureau of Legislative Affairs
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Bureau of Public Affairs
Bureau of Resource Management
Bureau of South Asian Affairs
Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
Counterterrorism Office (which produces the Patterns of Global Terrorism report)
National Foreign Affairs Training Center (former Foreign Service Institute)
Office of International Information Programs
Office of the Legal Adviser
Office of Management Policy
Office of Protocol
Office of the Science and Technology Adviser
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Office of War Crimes Issues (They blew the Bush war crimes)
Car Allowance Rebate System (Cash for Clunkers)
Cash for Appliances Program
Bureau of the Public Debt
Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI)
FHA
HUD
SOCIAL SECURITY

INDEPENDENT AGENCIES Of the U.S. GOVERNMENT;
National health and insurance system
African Development Foundation
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
Agency for International Development (USAID)
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (EVIL WAR-MONGERS)
US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA)
Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Export-Import Bank of the United States (ExIm)
Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)
Federal Reserve System (a pseudo government, semi-private organization)
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States (FCSC)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
International Trade Commission (ITC)
Learn and Serve America (LSA)
National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Ice Center (NIC)
National Labor Relati

Should the KennedyCare bill be fastracked without final language and a fiscal note?

* The deadline for amendments to the Kennedy bill is MONDAY
* A notice has been sent out that mark-up will begin TUESDAY
* Sen,. Coburn says they still don’t even have the language on
* 3 sections of the bill.
* And of course, it hasn’t been scored.

Senate Democrats plan to rush Senator Ted Kennedy’s “Affordable Health Choices Act” to passage next week. The bill is missing language (eg. public health insurance option) and hasn’t even being scored for cost! It doesn’t even have a bill number yet. It needs to be DELAYED.

lowlights from the entire 615-page bill as currently written.

It’s enough to take your breath…and freedom…away! It includes:

* 2009 version of Hillary Clinton’s Regional Alliances called American Health Benefit Gateways (SEC 143) with can be established by a State, the Federal government, or in regions.

* Penalties for anyone who goes uninsured (SEC 161).

* “Right Choices Program” to identify the uninsured and encourage them to get insured (SEC 311).

* Government in charge of deciding what is and is not “effective” or “quality” health care (SEC 219).

* Doctors paid for their “performance” – compliance with government treatment directives (SEC 143).

* Medicare-like program for people age 55 – 63…and a brand new trust fund (SEC 181).

* New bureaucracies, including the Medical Advisory Council, the Interagency Coordinating Working Group on Health Care Quality, a Patient Safety Research Center, Shared Decision-Making Resource Centers and a Center for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation.

* Five, yes FIVE, new Offices on Women’s Health. One for the Secretary of HHS and the rest in four in separate HHS agencies. The cost: “such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014.” (SEC 221)

* Program to look at the health impact of anything “built” in the environment including homes.(SEC 333)

* $10,000,000,000 for prevention, wellness, a new prevention Council, and public health activities including prevention research and health screenings (and data collection) (SEC 301).

* Collection of private health data at every turn, including in the workplace (SEC 334).

* Ready Reserve Corps established to help health departments for routine public health and emergency response missions. (SEC 430)

* New “Primary Care Extension Agencies” created by also new “State Hubs” will be created to help primary care clinics get in line with what this bill means to do, including creation of “medical homes,” the new gatekeeper model. (SEC 455)

* Plan to hunt for “fraud, waste and abuse” (no definitions) in not only government programs, but also in private health insurance. (SEC. 511) Is the care you want outside government guidelines, and thus deemed fraudulent? Your doctor could possibly be fined or imprisoned or both.
Russ.
Ted Kennedy was the major author and sponsor of the HMO bill that Nixon signed..

http://www.cchconline.org/privacy/hmoart.php3

Should the KennedyCare bill be fast tracked without final language in place or a fiscal note?

* The deadline for amendments to the Kennedy bill is MONDAY
* A notice has been sent out that mark-up will begin TUESDAY
* Sen,. Coburn says they still don’t even have the language on
* 3 sections of the bill.
* And of course, it hasn’t been scored.

Senate Democrats plan to rush Senator Ted Kennedy’s “Affordable Health Choices Act” to passage next week. The bill is missing language (eg. public health insurance option) and hasn’t even being scored for cost! It doesn’t even have a bill number yet. It needs to be DELAYED.

lowlights from the entire 615-page bill as currently written.

It’s enough to take your breath…and freedom…away! It includes:

* 2009 version of Hillary Clinton’s Regional Alliances called American Health Benefit Gateways (SEC 143) with can be established by a State, the Federal government, or in regions.

* Penalties for anyone who goes uninsured (SEC 161).

* “Right Choices Program” to identify the uninsured and encourage them to get insured (SEC 311).

* Government in charge of deciding what is and is not “effective” or “quality” health care (SEC 219).

* Doctors paid for their “performance” – compliance with government treatment directives (SEC 143).

* Medicare-like program for people age 55 – 63…and a brand new trust fund (SEC 181).

* New bureaucracies, including the Medical Advisory Council, the Interagency Coordinating Working Group on Health Care Quality, a Patient Safety Research Center, Shared Decision-Making Resource Centers and a Center for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation.

* Five, yes FIVE, new Offices on Women’s Health. One for the Secretary of HHS and the rest in four in separate HHS agencies. The cost: “such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014.” (SEC 221)

* Program to look at the health impact of anything “built” in the environment including homes.(SEC 333)

* $10,000,000,000 for prevention, wellness, a new prevention Council, and public health activities including prevention research and health screenings (and data collection) (SEC 301).

* Collection of private health data at every turn, including in the workplace (SEC 334).

* Ready Reserve Corps established to help health departments for routine public health and emergency response missions. (SEC 430)

* New “Primary Care Extension Agencies” created by also new “State Hubs” will be created to help primary care clinics get in line with what this bill means to do, including creation of “medical homes,” the new gatekeeper model. (SEC 455)

* Plan to hunt for “fraud, waste and abuse” (no definitions) in not only government programs, but also in private health insurance. (SEC. 511) Is the care you want outside government guidelines, and thus deemed fraudulent? Your doctor could possibly be fined or imprisoned or both.
Ted Kennedy.. the man who gave you the HMO..
Does anyone actually read this stuff? And they wonder why people oppose nationalized heathcare! at any rate this dog doesnt even have a fiscal note.. I think most everyone can agree this should be delayed till members have a readable bill.
call your congressman and demand a delay on the vote till there is a fiscal note.. Hold their feet to the fire folks. Its your money and freedom.

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