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Under the Pelosi plan 114 million Americans could lose their existing coverage

Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage

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Subtitle B–Public Health Insurance Option

SEC. 321. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE OPTION AS AN EXCHANGE-QUALIFIED HEALTH BENEFITS PLAN.

    (a) Establishment- For years beginning with Y1, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this subtitle referred to as the ‘Secretary’) shall provide for the offering of an Exchange-participating health benefits plan (in this division referred to as the ‘public health insurance option’) that ensures choice, competition, and stability of affordable, high quality coverage throughout the United States in accordance with this subtitle. In designing the option, the Secretary’s primary responsibility is to create a low-cost plan without compromising quality or access to care.

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The Pelosi Health Care “Reform” Bill

This section prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government.

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(c) Limitation on Individual Health Insurance Coverage-


    (1) IN GENERAL- Individual health insurance coverage that is not grandfathered health insurance coverage under subsection (a) may only be offered on or after the first day of Y1 as an Exchange-participating health benefits plan.


    (2) SEPARATE, EXCEPTED COVERAGE PERMITTED- Nothing in–


      (A) paragraph (1) shall prevent the offering of excepted benefits described in section 2791(c) of the Public Health Service Act so long as such benefits are offered outside the Health Insurance Exchange and are priced separately from health insurance coverage; and


      (B) this division shall be construed–


        (i) to prevent the offering of a stand-alone plan that offers coverage of excepted benefits described in section 2791(c)(2)(A) of the Public Health Service Act (relating to limited scope dental or vision benefits) for individuals and families from a State-licensed dental and vision carrier; or


        (ii) as applying requirements for a qualified health benefits plan to such a stand-alone plan that is offered and priced separately from a qualified health benefits plan.

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CBO Confirms that Pelosi Health Care Bill Covers 2.5 MORE Illegal Immigrants than HR 3200

According to analysis from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the number of illegal immigrants covered under Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats’ health care bill (H.R. 3962) has increased by 2.5 million from their original bill, H.R. 3200:
• According to CBO, H.R. 3962 leaves “18 million nonelderly residents uninsured (about one-third of wh... read more

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(4) APPLICATION AND VERIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR LAWFUL PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES-


    (A) REQUIREMENT- No individual shall be an affordable credit eligible individual (as defined in section 342(a)(1)) unless the individual is a citizen or national of the United States or is lawfully present in a State in the United States (other than as a nonimmigrant described in a subparagraph (excluding subparagraphs (K), (T), (U), and (V)) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act).


    (B) DECLARATION OF CITIZENSHIP OR LAWFUL IMMIGRATION STATUS- No individual shall be an affordable credit eligible individual unless there has been a declaration made, in a form and manner specified by the Health Choices Commissioner similar to the manner required under section 1137(d)(1) of the Social Security Act and under penalty of perjury, that the individual–


      (i) is a citizen or national of the United States; or


      (ii) is not such a citizen or national but is lawfully present in a State in the United States (other than as a nonimmigrant described in a subparagraph (excluding subparagraphs (K), (T), (U), and (V)) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act).


    Such declaration shall be verified in accordance with subparagraph (C) or (D), as the case may be.


    (C) VERIFICATION PROCESS FOR CITIZENS-


      (i) IN GENERAL- In the case of an individual making the declaration described in subparagraph (B)(i), subject to clause (ii), section 1902(ee) of the Social Security Act shall apply to such declaration in the same manner as such section applies to a declaration described in paragraph (1) of such section.

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Viagra for sex offenders, again?

Section 252: This section directs that “all health care and related services covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services.” Left open to interpretation by HHS is whether this provision re-establishes the right of a convicted sex offender to his Viag... read more

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SEC. 252. PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE.

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(a) In General- Except as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services.

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Sec. 552: Small Medical Device Companies Hit with Massive Tax

Under Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill, medical device makers would pay a 2.5% excise tax on sales of their products, roughly ninety percent of whom are small businesses. The Medical Device Manufacturers Association estimates the cost to their industry would exceed $20 billion over 10 years. Job creation will surely be halted with these tax increases

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    `(a) In General- There is hereby imposed on the first taxable sale of any medical device a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the price for which so sold.

SEC. 552. EXCISE TAX ON MEDICAL DEVICES.

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