Congress: 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.
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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.
This is a perfect example of the results of the mini-discussion that has broken out about the battle of ideas versus the politics of personal destruction.
While the so-called “battle of ideas” blabbers on amongst the various talking heads, commentators, and deep thinkers, Obama moves to outlaw private insurance. So keep right on blithering about the battle of ideas, folks. And I’ll keep right on with my project of the political destruction of Barack Obama. I want him to lose. I want him to fail. I want his political career destroyed. I want to see him impeached, convicted, removed from office, jailed, and left to rot in disgrace for the rest of his life. I want him to become a horrible example for the next one of the enemies of liberty who comes along to threaten me, mine, the nation we love, and the liberties we hold dear.
UPDATE: There is some disagreement as to whether the data quoted actually outlaws private insurance.
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Something about this administration has me musing about the French revolution and their use of the guillotine….
Yeah, like you, I want BO to fail because I want America to succeed.
Data, schmata. Who cares. I want the bugger, The 0bamanation, in jail (to be trotted out every year on his b’day and put on display) or deported to actually have to live in the workers paradise under Hugo or the Muslim paradise on earth, Iran, to be able to worship as he pleases.
The ID10T has NO skills and will either starve to death or be forced to seek rents from a benefactor. Either way, I want him out or in jail.
As per usual, it doesn’t quite…directly, anyway. It’s just another of their sneaky little incremental scams.
So add a few mill to cover the court costs for this and other problem wording.
Re: “Disagreement(s)” over what, exactly, any particular passage in Gubmint-run anything means and/or how it is or will be interpreted/utilized -
Always bear in mind - with Gubmint documentation, the true devil is not in the details; it is, rather, in the bureaucratic interpretation.
For the typical model, one need only browse the current U.S. Tax Code, and then inquire of a competent tax accountant just how the particular passage is interpreted - and therefore applied - by the U.S. Infernal Revenue Service’s personnel (May whatever gods there may be wreak havoc upon them all)…
Petty (and nearly all of them are, soon or late) bureaucrats will decide how any and all particular “data” found in Gubmint health-insurance documentation is to be read and applied - I leave it to your own fertile imagination to decide whom such reading/application will favor…
And how likely it is that any particular individual will be able to effectively appeal (let alone alter) any adverse results that will almost certainly come from such reading/application.
Nibbled to death by bureaucrat-goldfish, gentlefolk…only, in the case of health-care insurance, the goldfish will be growing bigger, with larger mouths and sharper teeth…
How long before the revolution?…
Somebody on another blog pointed out that most corporate insurance options are reset every year because most companies go out every year and offer new or slightly different policies.
That said, the suspicion was that this would mean everybody who tried to sign up for a different option policy would be SOOL. And then be forced into the government health care “option” whether they wanted it or not. ‘Course the worker bees would already be paying the policy costs for the drones and the queens.
Any guesses on how many private sector jobs disappear when all those health insurance companies/branches go belly up?
Obama not one. There the whole command. Future U.S. It is sad.
UPDATE (CDJ) — Spam URL deleted.
News make Mongo sad too.
Careful, Lorenzo, might be a person whose first language is not English.
That’s precisely what it is, said person being paid to post comments wherever he, she, or it can, hoping they’re moderately on-topic, trying to get the English right, and including links to spam sites: in this case, touting insurance.