Government Rules All it Surveys With House Bill

Posted on August 17, 2009

-By Warner Todd Huston

A fellow named John Lewis has put up on the web a few aspects of House Bill 3200 that raises many a red flag about the overarching power that the federal government is attempting to accrue unto itself should the so-called “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″ pass into law.

Wondering what sort of effects the bill would have on his “freedom as an American,” Lewis identifies some extremely un-American powers that will be suddenly bestowed upon government with this act. At the outset Lewis discovers that this bill will be onerous, indeed and paying for it will fall on every American whether involved or not.

Higher taxes, more borrowing, printing money, cutting payments, or rationing services–there are no other options. We will all pay for this, enrolled in the government “option” or not.

Lewis does an outstanding job pinpointing some of the worst parts of the House bill by excerpting the actual language of the bill and then giving a bulleted, point-by-point explanation of what will occur upon passage.

For instance, on government rationed healthcare, Lewis concludes that the government will indeed resort to rationing and concludes with these points:

The government has the power to determine what constitutes an “applicable [medical] condition.”
The government has the power to determine who is allowed readmission into a hospital.
This determination will be made by statistics: when enough people have been discharged for the same condition, an individual may be readmitted.
This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up.
There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts.
The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page 317-318.

In fact, one of the things recurrent in Lewis’ findings is the second to last point; that the plan is above even the courts.

Just think abut how scary that is. The fact that Obamacare is beyond the courts for redress means that the government may do anything it wants to do to you via your healthcare system and you will be forced to pay for it whether you agree with any of it or not!

And if Obamacare materially harms you? Too bad for you! There will be no possibility to settle your issues in court because Obamacare has been made more powerful than, and unanswerable to the courts.

So, if Obamacare cuts off the wrong foot. Learn to hop and shut up.

Go on over to Mr. Lewis’ great page and check out some of his conclusions. It’s well worth the time.

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