Bombshell: House Health Bill Makes Private Medical Insurance Illegal
Posted by Bill Dupray
on Jul 15 2009 Filed under Politics.
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It is not spin. It is not hyperbole. It is on page 16 of the bill.
From IBD.
It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
So the Marxists in the Congress and the White House are officially trying to kill an industry and our freedom to purchase whatever insurance we choose for our families. There is not only no precedent for this in a free society, there is no Constitutional authority.
Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn’t be killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans’ lives.
It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. It’s scary to think how many more breaches of liberty we’ll come across in the final 1,002.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: These people are monsters and must be stopped. They are hacking at our necks with broadswords and we are just sitting here letting them do it. I hate to say it, but maybe we can’t wait for 2010 to throw them out. It may be time for impeachments and recall elections.
The only saving grace may be that as these atrocities are aired, it makes it more likely that they will not pass. And then, my friends, it will be time to empty your wallets and buy a nice pair of campaign volunteer walking shoes to make the midterms such a bloodbath for the Democrats they will need guided (and guarded) tours of the Capitol to remember what it looked like.
Update: Ed Morrissey has more.
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