Fwd: URGENT ACTION NEEDED - House to Vote in Two Days-Health Care Bill From Hell

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>URGENT ACTION NEEDED - House to Vote in Two Days-Health Care Bill

> From Hell

> " Bettym19 " <Bettym19

>Organization: National Health Federation

>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:31:55 -0600

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>NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION

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>PRESS RELEASE

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> HOUSE POISED TO VOTE ON GOVERNMENT

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>TAKE OVER OF HEALTH CARE

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>By Lee Bechtel, NHF National Lobbyist

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>November 5, 2009

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> House Democrats are scheduled to vote

> on H.R.3962, the Pelosi/Waxman government-run,

> health-care takeover bill on this Saturday,

> November 7th! It is urgent that you take

> immediate action to protect your health freedoms now.

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> We ask all NHF members and others

> reading this to contact their Representative in

> opposition to this assault on American's

> health-care freedom of choice. Unless it is

> held up or voted down by the full House of

> Representatives, this could be the last chance

> to register your opposition to this legislation.

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> People can use the NHF webpage to

> contact their Congressman or -woman by e-mail,

> phone, and fax at

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<http://www.thenhf.com/government_affairs_federal.html>http://www.thenhf.com/gov\

ernment_affairs_federal.html.

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> Remember, despite all of the media

> hype and lies about this bill being a “good

> thing†for Americans, it is nothing more than

> a huge expansion of the Disease-Care System

> already existing in this country. It is easy to

> go along with the starry-eyed crowd, but it

> takes real character and courage to stand up

> for what’s right and to oppose what is wrong.

> And this bill is flat-out wrong!

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> Among other things, H.R.3962 will:

> * Force nearly every American to buy

> “acceptable†health insurance, or else face

> a tax penalty (2.5 percent of income) for not

> buying government-sanctioned health insurance./1

> * Create 110 new Federal agencies,

> commissions, councils, and programs, a huge

> bureaucratic burden upon the economy and

> guaranteed to be corrupt and inefficient.

> * Establish an institutionalized bureaucracy

> to decide what medical treatments will or will

> not be available to Americans, and whose

> recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Health

> and Human Services will then be considered by

> him or her as to whether or not they will be

> accepted./2 In short, one political appointee

> will have the final say in writing some 300

> million Americans’ health-insurance policies!

> All this power in one pair of hands is nothing

> but a recipe for disaster and corrupt power.

> * Deny the right to keep health information

> private between health-care providers and

> patients, since the “privacy†rule permits

> data sharing for many purposes without the

> patient’s consent, giving the Federal HHS

> Secretary access to every American’s personal

> health records, including psychotherapy notes./3

> * Bankrupt an already bankrupt country with

> costs well over $2 trillion between 2010 and

> 2020, and a concomitant reduction in Medicare

> benefits for seniors. As another commentator

> wrote, “Sorry, but if you want universal

> healthcare, you can't also have your Amtrak

> subsidies, or car company bailouts, or troops

> in 130 countries, or your war in Afghanistan,

> or your FDA, OSHA, FCC, your Head Start

> programs, food stamps, winter fuel subsidies, etc., etc., ad infinitum. " /4

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> This is not reform, it simply a vast

> expansion of the current corrupt Disease-Care System to more helpless victims.

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> Make sure your elected officials hear

> from you now regarding this critical

> legislation. Let's preserve health-care freedom

> of choice at all costs. There is no time to waste!

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>1 See Section 501 (Tax on individuals without

>acceptable health care coverage) per the

>so-called “Affordable Health Care for America

>Actâ€

>(<http://www.ForHealthFreedom.org/BackgroundResearchData/HR3962_2009.pdf>H.R.

>3962) (AHCAA).

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>2 See Sections 223 (Health Benefits Advisory

>Committee) and 224 (Process for adoption of recommendations) per AHCAA.

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>3 Under Federal HIPAA privacy rules, the U.S.

>Department of Health and Human Services

>Secretary has legal access to every patient’s

>medical, psychotherapy, and other health

>records. Covered entities such as doctors,

>hospitals, and the like are required by law to

>disclose personal health information to the

>Secretary (or his or her agents) to make sure

>the HIPAA rule is being complied with. See 45

>C.F.R. Subtitle A, Subpart E – Privacy of

>Individually Identiifiable Health Information,

>Sections 164.502(a)(2)(ii) (“Required

>disclosuresâ€) and 164.508(a)(2)(ii) (exception

>to “Uses and disclosures for which an

>authorization is requiredâ€) for support.

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>4 David Galland in Casey's Daily Dispatch at

><http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/2873/Healthcare>http://www.thedailycrux.co\

m/content/2873/Healthcare.

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>Please view recent press releases for further information on this topic:

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><http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_10_oct_2009.html>http://www.thenhf.com\

/press_releases/pr_10_oct_2009.html

>Stop the Health Care Monster

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><http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_06_oct_2009.html>http://www.thenhf.com\

/press_releases/pr_06_oct_2009.html

>Health Care Reform Update

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>Click on the following links below for individual mailing addresses for

>letter writing and other contact info for Congress Members:

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><http://www.thenhf.com/government_affairs/federal/111th_congress_house_of_reps_\

adresses.htm>House

>of Representatives

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><http://www.thenhf.com/government_affairs/federal/111thHouseFaxList.htm>Fax

>List for House of Representatives

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>As the oldest and best-respected health-freedom

>group on Capitol Hill, the NHF continues to be

>the credible source of objective assessment of,

>and proactive actions on, Congressional

>legislation and FDA matters that have material

>impact upon our freedom-of-health choices and

>access to dietary supplements and nutritional foods.

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>release, use this link to inform others.

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>to consume healthy food, take supplements and

>use alternative therapies without unnecessary

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