From: Carolyn Cooke

My husband is a Cardiologist and we have been following this healthcare debate closely.

Yesterday, I discovered that our Republican Senator from Idaho, Crapo, had co–sponsored the ‘Healthy Americans Act’ of 2009 (S 329). It is our belief that the Baucus bill is a red herring, too flawed to ever pass and that they know it and have had this bi-partisan terror of a bill in the background waiting to be brought to save the day.

They will try to say it is perfect because it does not have the ‘public option’ but is actually a worse bill from many aspects than either the House or Baucus Bill and 7 liberal Republic Senators have co-sponsored it. It will easily pass the House with all Dems and pass the Senate with Republican support.

It is similar to MassCare and it was the bill Kennedy wanted and spoke about when the healthcare debate began.

Nina Owcharenko at Heritage did an analysis on the first introduction of the bill in 2008–S334

The Club for Growth has recently begun running ads against Bennett (R) Utah and his intro of the bill with Ron Wyden (D) Oregon.

A few provisions of The Healthy Americans Act (HAA):

HAA calls for the federal government to standardize the entire insurance market, thus ending competitiveness. It does away with the free market solution of producing a better quality product with open competition.

HAA establishes a regulatory regime to control the supply of health insurance products.

HAA requires citizens only buy plans approved by the government. The act eliminates the personal choice of the individual over his healthcare services and plans.

Special interest lobbyists will converge on Congress to see that their services will be included in the federally mandated plans. No thought will be given to the effectiveness of treatments and procedures. Congress has found another way to fill their already deep pockets.

HAA will prevent the free market from innovations–care will be standardized, in control of, and determined by the federal government.

HAA forces all Americans to buy health insurance and exacts fines for noncompliance with rare exception–catastrophe or religious belief.

HAA puts the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in charge of all monies involved. The IRS will be in charge of collecting premiums, dispersing subsidies and exacting and collecting fines. Premium payments will be automatically deducted from paychecks and sent to the IRS.

HAA gives control of healthcare ‘exchanges’ over to the individual states but they will be subsidized and regulated by the federal government.

HAA allows states to offer a ‘governments run’ option.

HAA taxes the healthcare plans of employees up to 25% as well as implementing other tax increases.

If the states do not comply, the federal government has a “fall back plan”

According the Americans for Tax Reform, this will be the largest tax increase in history and is projected to increase government spending by 35%, based on an analysis of the Congressional Budget Office numbers by the Club for Growth.

Please get the word out!!!

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