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My questions are:

1. How are they defining a “family”? Does a family refer to a married couple or two individuals? Do cohabitating people count as a family? Many states say that they have the same rights as married persons.

2. Does this statement mean that a family of 2 would be considered the same as a family of 10? $10,000 for each family?

:)

Which begs another question that should be asked at EVERY town hall meeting: “Why is there no tort reform written or proposed in this “healthcare reform” to bring down cost—-and if not, why not”????

Rovin on August 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM

Tort reform?

Over John Edwards’ dead body!!!

That includes you and the rest of the crapweasels trying to tax and spend us into the stone ages.

He’s a lying sack of excrement.

I know you haven’t reached this far in the bill – but we must ask about the Home Visitation Program – this is some scary stuff…….

http://speakmymindblog.com/2009/08/11/home-visitation-program-in-healthcare-bill/

sherryande on August 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM

It’s stuff like this that makes me afraid to read this bill.

B 7 substance use disorder

So it’s no longer substance abuse. No longer decision that someone made that started them down this road. They lump it together with mental illness.

- The Cat

Specter: “I don’t have any requirement to be here”
Video: Dingell says town-hall protests remind him of the Klan
Rasmussen: ObamaCare support hits new lows
Questions for your health care town hall: Secs. 122-124

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When/if I get a response I’ll post it, unless it takes until sometime in 2010. Webb is notorious for not responding. Warner is better, but slow. And always sends a form letter which likely does not address the issue you raised.

Sen. Warner,

I have a few questions concerning HR 3200, specifically with the Bealth Benefits Advisory Committee (HBAC).

I would appreciate a response to the following:

Section 122:

1. Does the lack of cost-sharing for preventative services under 122(c)(1) help control costs? A CBO letter last Friday to Rep. Nathan Deal points to a study that shows “that slightly fewer than 20 percent of [preventative] services that were examined save money, while the rest add to costs.”

2. Does the annual cap of $5000 for a single and $10,000 for a family come on TOP of my current premium? According to the pro-reform page put up by HHS, we currently pay $1,522 in cost-sharing. Does sec. 122(c)(2)(B) mean I am going to see higher co-pays and deductibles?

3. Do you favor a cafeteria plan for choosing benefits, as highlighted in an interview of Rep. Paul Ryan? Why is it better for cost control to define minimum benefits than it is to permit individuals to pick the services they want? Do you support the Patients’ Choice Act?

Section 123:

1. The committee that decides what has to be in a qualified plan contains at least twenty (20) people, yet it only guarantees one physician is on the panel. Do you think this is the right level of participation of medical professionals?

2. The committee membership includes the words “shall at least reflect” various health insurance stakeholders. Isn’t that vague? Would you want to change that?

3. Does Congress get any say in who’s on this committee?

4. Do you believe that this committee would unduly restrict the relationship between a patient and her or his doctor? Why or why not?

Section 124:

1. Where is Congress’ input into what shall be in the plan? Does your senator or congressperson think this plan vests too much power in the hands of the HHS Secretary?

2. In particular, can the Secretary decide to ignore the Health Benefits Advisory Committee and impose a minimum plan?

3. The rules for updating the benefits package is vague, only providing for “periodic updating”. Do you think this should be that vague?

“Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2009.

also,

“[Health services should not be guaranteed to] individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”

The question for Town Howl Meetings should be:

Do you agree with this?

I know you haven’t reached this far in the bill – but we must ask about the Home Visitation Program – this is some scary stuff…….

Thanks for this — I had missed it. Also, thanks everyone for your willingness to read the dense stuff in this bill. It is hard. I am outsourcing to those more gifted in one-liners the sharper, easier-to-understand questions. I don’t have a JD but I can read law by and large.

But if you’d like a simple question, let me leave you with this one: Senator or Congressperson X, do you think this bill gives too much power to the HHS Secretary? What oversight will you have?

izoneguy on August 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Don’t forget the new Child Protective Services run by the FEDS buried in HR3200. Funds for home visits and parenting classes. Wonder who decides what proper child training is?

Grow Fins on August 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM

Handling complex issues is easy compared to understanding legalese.

I think the complexity-frustration of folks who work for a living and pay taxes as reflected in ‘my brain hurts’ is completely understandable and not superficial.

clorensen

I think you should give working people a bit more credit for being able to handle complex issues.

It’s all a front for the new protein meal soylent green.

faol on August 11, 2009 at 8:52 AM

Andrew Zimmern would try some.

I know you haven’t reached this far in the bill – but we must ask about the Home Visitation Program – this is some scary stuff…….

http://speakmymindblog.com/2009/08/11/home-visitation-program-in-healthcare-bill/

sherryande on August 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM

You better turn Fox News off if they come to your home or your children will be relocated to a re-education camp in La.

http://speakmymindblog.com/2009/08/11/home-visitation-program-in-healthcare-bill/

What is a big deal is that the federal government appears to be setting itself up as the national department of insurance. The stipulations outlined in this section of the bill are almost identical to those mandated by the states. Now, one can argue that having a single insurance regulator is prefereable to having 50, but I’ve yet to hear of any state offering to give up its oversight role of companies doing business in their domain. I am also curious how the states will react if a “public option” or private plan approved by a so-called federal co-op offers their citizens less than what the free market gives them now.

Re-read Brave New World for the endgame. Aldous Huxley’s brother Julian was a eugenicist in the mold of Obama’s “sci-tech kommisar” John Holdren and Rahm’s brother Ezekiel, aka Dr. Death.

I suspect all the Foundations (esp. Rockefeller and Soros’ Open Society Institute) got wood bringing this legalized tyranny to fruition.