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. Do you want a plan with lots of cost-sharing and low premiums? Well, the best you can do is a "Bronze plan," which has benefits that provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60% of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan. Anything lower than that, tough. (Section 1302 (d)(1)(A)) 8. You are an employer in the small-group insurance market and you'd like to offer policies with deductibles higher than $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for families? Tough. (Section 1302 © (2) (A). 9. If you are a large employer (defined as at least 50 employees) and you do not want to provide health insurance to your employee, then you will pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to $3,000 under the reconciliation changes). Think you know how to better spend that money? Tough. (Section 1513). 10. You are an employer who offers health flexible spending arrangements and your employees want to deduct more than $2,500 from their salaries for it? Sorry, can't do that. (Section 9005 (i)). 11. If you are a physician and you don't want the government looking over your shoulder? Tough. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to use your claims data to issue you reports that measure the resources you use, provide information on the quality of care you provide, and compare the resources you use to those used by other physicians. Of course, this will all be just for informational purposes. It's not like the government will ever use it to intervene in your practice and patients' care. Of course not. (Section 3003 (i)) 12. If you are a physician and you want to own your own hospital, you must be an owner and have a "Medicare provider agreement" by Feb. 1, 2010. (Dec. 31, 2010 in the reconciliation changes.) If you didn't have those by then, you are out of luck. (Section 6001 (i) (1) (A)). 13. If you are a physician owner and you want to expand your hospital? Well, you can't (Section 6001 (i) (1) (. Unless, it is located in a county where, over the last five years, population growth has been 150% of what it has been in the state (Section 6601 (i) (3) ( E)). And then you cannot increase your capacity by more than 200% (Section 6001 (i) (3) ©).

1. You are young and don't want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the "privilege." (Section 1501) 2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You'll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That's because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person's health status. (Section 2701). 3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711). 4. Think you'd like a policy that is cheaper because it doesn't cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer policies that do not cover preventive services or offer them with cost-sharing, even if that's what the customer wants. (Section 2712). 5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesn't allow your employees' slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Tough. (Section 2714). 6. You must buy a policy that covers ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services; chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care. You're a single guy without children? Tough, your policy must cover pediatric services. You're a woman who can't have children? Tough, your policy must cover maternity services. You're a teetotaler? Tough, your policy must cover substance abuse treatment. (Add your own violation of personal freedom here.) (Section 1302).

People die every day. It's a fact of life. No one likes it, but you can't help the world. Everyday people die in car accidents. Should we advocate that there be no more cars on the road because of it. People are DYING in car accidents! Let's regulate it! I have plenty of money, and can afford to pay for my share of what this HC bill cost America. I am not against it because I, personally, want to save money. It will cost this country a detrimental, unsustainable amount of funds that can NOT be paid in the long run. I fear for my childrens future, for they will not be able to afford the cost of living because of it. Everything from milk, gasoline, childcare, rents, etc. will rise. I am against anything that brings the govenerment closer and closer to socialism. I am against it because it it takes one more chunk out of our freedom. It gives the government yet another piece of my life to regulate.

YES!!! You DO blame the person who buys the product!!!!!! If you go to Stop and shop and purchase a gallon of milk for $4.39 and you pay more than going to Aldi's where you can get it for $2.29, then YOU are the idiot! Not the store who sold it to you. Yes, they have their nerve to charge you twice as much as the next store, so they are not being very noble, but YOU would be the idiot who bought it, so only YOU can be blamed for your stupidity. Now, if the government refused to go into contract with anyone who would charge such outrageous prices, then they could get someone who would be fair in their prices. If there are "rules" set about how contracts are stated, then the government needs to change them. The government just doesn't give a crap, cause it's not their money they are dishing out. The private company doesn't give a crap either about charging sooo much to the government because it's not the governments money. This is true, but we can't control what other people do, we can (or should be able to) only control what WE do with our funds. This is why the government should not be in business. Only people who are invested in their business look out for their end profit or product. The government doesn't care about how the money is spent cause it's not coming out of their pocket. This is carried out on a grand scale with all of the government programs, and when put all together add up to enormous waste. The government is TOO big. It must be scaled down, or we will drown soon.

If you want to call it a 'religion', then it's the ONLY 'religion' that doesn't require anything of a person except belief. The only one. EVERY other religion out there, requires a person to "work" at doing some sort of requirement in order to be saved (ex: be good, knock on doors, bring X amount of souls to God, penance, baptism, give to the poor, wearing a dress that covers you from head to foot, a pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj), a righteous lifestyle, etc. Christianity acknowledges that this can not be obtained by anyone, for all are sinners, and none can do right. Every religion has works and deeds that ae required from you, or you will not make it to Heaven. So, in this way, Christianity is different from all other religions. Is it any wonder that the bible speaks of the judgment day when those who have put their faith in Jesus will not be judged and those who have not, will stand before the judgment seat of God and give account of all their "deeds"? They are each judged according to what they have done and they are found guilty. In Revelations, it says that if anyone's name was not found in the book of life, they were thrown into the lake of fire, and they perish. The only way to get your name into the book is to have 'faith' or 'belief' in Jesus.

Wanted: Straight Talk It's how abortion morphed into a choice; illegal immigrants into undocumented workers; the war on terror into the overseas contingency operation; prisons into correctional facilities; stimulus into jobs bill; lesbians into women in sensible shoes. Euphemisms have corrupted the language, and nowhere are they heard more than in the halls of government, where politicians use them to cloak or distort their true intentions. Hence, the government's socialistic seizure of one-sixth of the economy is framed as health-care reform.

People who attempt to kill people are mentally ill. There is something wrong with them because they don't think right mentally.

It's your own fault if you dish out the $68 for a screw. I would go to walmart to buy my screws. If the government is paying that much money for a screw, they are screwed up. Don't blame the person who will sell it for that price if there's a moron out there who will pay it! The extent you will go to defend your government astounds me!

another great editorial I read today. Expects ACORN will reorganize under a new name This is in response to the March 23 article "ACORN decides to disband." ACORN's illegal and immoral conduct captured on film was its undoing. This sounds like good news for patriotic Americans, but if you believe those people will just go away, you also believe in the tooth fairy. No, they will reorganize with a new name but will pursue the same old agenda. And since one of the former leaders of the group lives in the White House, I plan on forwarding my recommendation there for the new name. I propose it be called PEANUT: Progressive Enablers Against National Unity and Truth. I'm sure they will appreciate other suggestions. Tim Rosa Northfield

This is a great editorial I read today. Obamacare has made a mockery of America's freedoms According to the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve lived in the perfection of God's creation, the Garden of Eden. They had the will of God written in their hearts, and for a time all was well. They were forbidden from eating the fruit from one of the trees. But true to human nature, they wanted more. They craved what did not belong to them. It was the work of God, not of their hands, but it was so tempting. They could see no harm in it, and surely it would be good for them. It didn't take much of a push from Satan to get them to follow what their baser instincts dictated, and they ate the fruit. God had warned them "on that day you shall surely die," but their self-serving inclination was just too strong, so they ate and lost paradise. Fast-forward a few thousand years. We have been placed in a land that had its founding rooted in the will and laws of God. We were by no means a perfect people, but our laws reflected Judeo-Christian laws and traditions. We thrived like no other country in history. Our founders warned that unless we were a moral (God-fearing) people, this great American experiment would not endure. But our human nature led us to open Pandora's Box and seek our own way. We encoded legalized theft in the forms of income and property taxes (what part of "Thou shalt not steal" don't you understand?). These taxes were not onerous at first, but it was a matter of time before our appetites increased to an unsustainable point. We voted again and again for politicians who promised us the most, not considering the immorality of where the funds were coming from, as long as it benefited us. Like the proverbial frog in the kettle, we ignored the principle and the danger, and now I fear we are already boiling. The federal government is broke and mortgaging our future and the futures of our children. States and municipalities are broke. The only light at the end of the tunnel is the train of promised obligations that surely will run over us. All from the same sin as Adam and Eve: the desire to possess what was not ours. With the signing of the health-care abomination, we have made a mockery of "freedom" in America and made ourselves even more indentured servants of government. As in I Samuel, chapter 8, our king (government) will take our young men and women, the first fruits of our labor (automatic withholding), and everything we have to satiate the beast of government. Yes, we did it to ourselves. It was our human nature rebelling against the will of God. Just as God said to Adam and Eve, "... on that day you shall surely die," so we will look at a once great people and witness the death of our nation. The Rev. Martin E. Kiesel Southbury

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We didn't "just say no" we said "Hell NO!" We didn't want it.

The government has a very bad track record for running things within their means. I am not FOR the HI industry either, but I would rather keep things they way they were than have the government involved in them, cause they are worse than any private company at running anything. They have been known to pay $68.00 for a screw for crying out loud.

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Nothing should get passed that Obama, his family, and congress is not willing to abide by.

What you all don't get is that we are not against HC reform. We are against government control of HC and the decisions they will make for us. We are against the IRS being the HI police.

I never had a problem sleeping. If some form of work on our part was needed to receive salvation, then Jesus died for nothing. It wuld be like saying what he did on the cross for us was not enough, and it was.

That's different. You needed to see that your party is just the same! I posted to remind you of THAT one thing. How did you make your point? By saying, "Well,.... if Bush can be an idiot and provoke the enemy we are already at war with, Obama can be one too and provoke a civil fight among the people he governs." How ridiculous!

To taunt the enemy to attack was NOT Bush's reason for saying 'bring them on'. He knew we had the resources and great armed forces to defeat them. They had ALREADY attacked us. He didn't need to provoke them with his words. They were already provoked. The war was already in full swing when he said that. It is quite another thing to be the President and incite or encourage a fight amongst the people in the SAME nation. OUR nation! What the hell was he trying to do?! Provoke his opposers (who are supposed to be his own people) to go to war with him? That guy is stupid! WHY do you CONSTANTLY condone what he says and does by bringing up what others have said and done? Can't you take a look at what he does and judge it on its own merit? Face it, You know it and I know it. THAT was a STUPID thing to say to his American constituents. "bring it on!":rolleyes: What an idiot!!!!

Once again, CLEO, I don't condone any corruption.(BTW, I never said that Bush or any other president had done a great job.) Because one did similar things in the past, doesn't make it okay NOW, And NOW is what we are talking about.

Yeah, cause if he didn't he wouldn't have gotten what he did get passed! The people were in an uproar about that decietful bit of corruption that Obama endorsed. Nebraska themselves were even disgusted with that bribe, even though they would have benifited from it. If we hadn't said anything about that sham, he would have kept it in there. How he could even condone such a farce in the first place is beyond all virtue!

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