- I'm not referring to the 2000 page Health Care Reform
bill itself, but the title of a devastating Wall Street Journal editorial
written by Steve Moore --a frequent speaker at my brother Mark's annual
Freedom Fest gathering in Las Vegas during July. I don't have the space
to reprint it, but you can find it online here. It is comprehensive in
scope and devastating in its logic.
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- As for the content of the latest iteration of the Democratic
reform bill, I offer this additional update courtesy of the Citizen Commission
on Human Rights -a mental health watchdog group. The organization warns
that the new Health Care bill is filled with agenda items of the psychology
lobby and big pharmaceutical companies. All of these will add billions
to health care mandates and ensure that the new reforms require billions
in increased fees and taxes.
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- "The newly-forged 1990-page 'Affordable Health Care
for America Act' (HR 3962) offered by the House of Representatives is filled
with mental health provisions intended to prop up psychiatry as well as
the pharmaceutical industry with billions in future income. Key mental
health components of this House bill:
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- "Mothers Act: The bill includes the language to
'expand treatment for postpartum conditions' and calls for the development
of 'improved screening and diagnostic techniques,' but makes no provisions
to ensure any entities doing such research are free from conflicts of interest
or pharmaceutical funding [which is rampant in the industry]. For example,
Screening for Mental Health, Inc., and its sub-organization Signs of Suicide,
who heavily promote and conduct mental health screening [but who ironically
downplay the direct relationship between psychotropic drugs and suicide],
received $4,985,925 from pharmaceutical companies prior to 2008, and ten
leading psychiatric researchers have been exposed in the last year for
failing to disclose millions of dollars in pharmaceutical payments.
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- "Mental Health Parity: The bill mandates Mental
Health Parity, or equal insurance coverage for mental disorders as what
are covered for physical diseases, whether under their regular health insurance
or whether a person gets their new coverage through the Health Insurance
Exchange. Psychiatric patients are traditionally 'cured' when their insurance
benefits run out. In this bill, those benefits never run out. Considering
there are no medical tests to verify the existence of any psychiatric disorder,
and without anything other than a psychiatrist's opinion about whether
or not the person's 'illness' is cured, this legislation becomes nothing
more than taxpayer funded billions to the psycho/pharmaceutical industry
who will continue their jihad of mass drugging of Americans. This provision
could easily encompass all 374 diagnoses in psychiatry's diagnostic manual,
covering everything from Phase of Life Problem to Arithmetic Disorder.
Section 214, Page 100
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- "Home Visitation Programs for Families with Young
Children or Families Expecting Children: The bill creates a home visitation
program for families with young children or which are expecting children
or who have certain 'risk factors.' The program provides assessments regarding
matters of 'age appropriate behaviors,' for children, prevention of family
violence and referral to outside services. - Section 1904, Page 1177
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- "School Based Health Clinics: The bill includes
funding for School Based Health Clinics that will include subjective psychiatric
mental health screening (called mental health assessments) of children,
and 'referral to a continuum of services including emergency psychiatric
care, community support programs, inpatient care, and outpatient programs'
as part of their 'comprehensive primary health services.' This is a direct
feeder line for the psycho/pharmaceutical industry directly into our schools.
- Section 2511, Page 1352
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- "Wellness Program Grants for small employers: The
grants in the bill serve as an incentive for employers to include 'mental
health' as part of the Wellness Program Grants to businesses. Part of the
program entails a 'Behavioral Change Component' that encourages 'healthy
living through counseling' and may include programs relating to 'tobacco
use, obesity, stress management, depression and mental health.' - Section
112, Page 67
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- "Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers:
The bill creates new 'Federally Qualified Behavioral Health Centers' and
in order for existing community mental health centers to qualify, they
have to provide, among other things, 'mental health screening, assessment,
and diagnosis,' as well as 'outpatient clinic mental health services, including
screening, assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy and medication,' in addition
to "crisis mental health services including 24-hour mobile crisis
teams.' - Section 2513, Page 1367"
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- Health Insurance News had this to say about other kinds
of mandates the government has in mind--specifically about vaccines. "The
Federal Government's proposed mandatory health insurance will mean mandatory
vaccinations/immunizations. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says that
for anyone who refuses to keep up-to-date vaccinations, under the new health
reform, you will not be able to obtain any health care you may need until
immunizations are current [the same kind of tactic used to force public
school children into having immunizations as a condition of enrollment].
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- It was also reported that the new health care reform
bill was submitted with a provision that those doctors and hospitals who
are not 'meaningful users' of the new reform system will also be faced
with fines and penalties. As well as the Secretary of Health and Human
Services will be 'permitted to impose more stringent measures of meaningful
use over time.'" This is in line with a trend that already exists
in part. Dr. Bill Sardi reports that drug reps, who buy government data
on prescriptions written by each physician, came to him to complain that
he was not using their drugs in treating his clients--and not so subtly
threatening to report him to the medical boards who could have denied him
his license.
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- There have been a lot of numbers thrown around about
the numbers of uninsured. Michael Quinn explains the discrepancies, which
are huge: "Who's exaggerating? Who's misleading the American public?
If the Democrats can't even figure out how many people are uninsured, how
can we possibly trust their 1,990 page 'solution'? The46 million figure
comes from the 2007 Census Bureau report. So, why did Obama reference 30
million uninsuredin his speech? Maybe it was because 9.3 million of those
were non-citizens. Since the Democrats didn't want to let the public know
they were going to cover illegal aliens, Obama backed them out of his figure.
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- "Another 6.4 million actually are enrolled in Medicaid
but mistakenly tell the Census they have no health insurance. Another 4.3
million are eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP but have not signed up. In addition,
scores of the 46 million could theoretically afford health coverage, but
choose not to purchase any [like those of us who use alternative medicine
and good nutrition to avoid problems]. In 2007, 17.6 million of the uninsured
had annual incomes of more than $50,000 and 9.1 million earned more than
$75,000. Sally Pipes documents in the Top Ten Myths of American Health
Care: A Citizen's Guide, that those making more than $75,000 per year are
part of the fastest growing segment of the uninsured population. These
people have exercised their freedom and decided not to buy insurance. That
is their choice and not the responsibility of government or taxpayers.
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- "Taking these facts into consideration leaves 8.4
million people truly without insurance. Many of the 17.6 million people
who make more than $50,000 per year choose not to purchase health insurance
because they are self employed. The tax code exempts people from paying
taxes on health care benefits purchased through their employer, while denying
the same tax advantages to individuals. Ending this discrimination would
make health care more affordable to those who are self-employed or not
covered through their workplace. This would allow Americans to have health
care policies that are portable, so it would reduce the gaps in coverage
people can face when they quit or lose a job."
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