New Baucus Health Care Plan: Packed With Taxes and Abortion

Senator Max Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee has released a draft proposal on health care “reform” and it’s a doozy. It’s more of the same bad medicine the socialists have been working up for the American people through HR 3200, ObamaCare and other plans.

Americans for Prosperity has done an analysis of the proposal and found that it’s a tax-laden piece of mandates that should offend any red-blooded, freedom-loving American.

• Taxes of $750-$900 for individual Americans who don’t have health insurance; $1,500-$3,800 for families
• Employers, on the other hand will face a tax of $400 per employee if they don’t offer health insurance to their employees–a bargain over the $5,000-$11,000 they’d pay for singles and families, respectively. This will provide a powerful incentive for employers to push this off onto the government…and get us to a fully government-run health care system all the quicker!
• It would strike a death-blow to Health Savings Accounts–a freedom and free-market tool to help cover medical costs
• Increase the paperwork and compliance costs for businesses

According to LifeNews, it also contains abortion subsidies and mandates.  The article quotes Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for NRLC

“The bill contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion,” Johnson explains. “This would be a drastic break from longstanding federal policy, under which federal funds do not pay for elective abortions or subsidize health plans that cover elective abortions.”

“In addition, the Baucus bill requires that a specific charge must be included in the premiums paid by those who enroll in such subsidized plans, of at least ‘$1 per enrollee, per month,’ which amounts to a surcharge specifically for elective abortions,” Johnson adds.

The Baucus bill provides $6 billion in federal funds for the establishment of health insurance cooperatives and Johnson says no limits on in place to make sure that money is not used to pay for abortions or for plans that pay for abortions.

As CNS News reports, the general nature of all government health care plans encourages an environment where the disabled–including and especially children–are on the short end of the health care stick.  They are not consider assets to the state, but rather liabilities that consume valuable resources.

Barb Farlow said her daughter, who had a devastating genetic condition, died 80 days after she was born and 24 hours after she was taken to a Canadian hospital for surgery.

“We later discovered that no diagnostic tests had been done and a ‘do not resuscitate order’ was written before we had provided consent,” Farlow said. “The discovery that our fundamental parental rights had been violated in such a manner without cause left us shocked and devastated.

“Sadly, we believe that to our (Canadian) medical system, Annie was not a child but a label with associated statistics and a price tag,” Farlow said. “We will never know Annie’s potential, and so we grieve her death and the life she might have had.”

Another child that could be “disposed of” under a government health care system is Peter Kellett.

Mary Kellett said she was glad she could fight for treatment for her 4-year-old son, Peter, who was born with a chromosomal abnormality.

“We were told to wrap him in a blanket and let him die,” Kellett said. “We were told there were no survivors with Trisomy 18 beyond two weeks.

“We fought to give Peter the ordinary care our other children would be given, and we thank God every day this precious little boy is here blessing our family,” Kellett said.

For the sake of our collective American soul (and our individual moral responsibility), we must do everything we can to stop this move toward socialized health care in America.

Our Constitution forbids it, as does common sense and our moral welfare.

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