Yesterday's Investor's Business Daily has discovered the smoking gun in the current healthcare proposal. I am not good at interpretting bureaucratic gobbledy gook, so here is the quote from the article:
"...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."
One of the 'advantages' of making an awful piece of legislature 1,018 pages long is that most of the lawmakers won't read it very carefully (if at all). Based on the promises currently being made and the contradictions between fact and promise, I wonder how many Congressmen have actually read the bill.
Universal healthcare is a great idea in theory that has never worked in practice. We need to learn from the mistakes other countries have made. Please call your Congressmen and let him or her know that you do not support the end of American medicine as we know it.
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