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                  THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE DISASTER
             How Clinton's Health Plan will devastate
              your medical care, income, and privacy

                       By Jarret Wollstein

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Bill Clinton says that America's health-care system is broken and the
government must fix it. He wants "universal coverage . . . health care
that can never be taken away."

That sounds compassionate. But how will Clinton's Health Security
Act actually affect you? I've read all 1,342 pages. Once you get past
the legalese, you'll find . . .

UNIVERSAL COVERAGE REALLY MEANS UNIVERSAL COMPULSION

Clinton's plan will take away your freedom of choice in medical care,
force you to pay huge new "health-care" taxes, and eliminate your
medical and personal privacy.

You'll have no choice about participating in Clinton's plan. Page 15 of
his Health Security Act (HSA) clearly states, you . . .

-- "must enroll in an applicable health plan," and

-- "must pay any premium required."

The "health plan" you must enroll in, is a government monopoly on all
basic medical care in your area (called a "regional health alliance").
No independent alternatives are permitted. A few government plans will
replace hundreds of competing insurance companies, giving you little
choice.

If you don't voluntarily enroll, your mandatory premium automatically
doubles [HSA, p. 145]. And if you don't promptly pay "any premium
required", you face civil monetary penalties of "$5,000 or three times
the amount of the liability owed, whichever is greater." [HSA, p. 167].

There is no limit on the amount of your mandatory health-care premiums.
They won't be set by Congress or by any elected body, but by a 7-member,
politically-appointed, National Health Board. Your mandatory health-care
premiums are actually a second, unlimited tax on your income. How much
will you pay? About 10% of your salary, on top of all your other taxes,
in just the first year.

UP TO 1 IN 8 OF US COULD BE PUT OUT OF WORK

Your employer will pay 80% of your mandatory health-care premiums. But
that's just a technicality. Hundreds of thousands of businesses are just
barely surviving. Forced to pay new health-care taxes, they will have to
cut salaries, lay off workers, or relocate outside the U.S.

Small businesses will be hit particularly hard by Clinton's health care
taxes. The restaurant association estimates that 3.1 million jobs could
be lost in the hotel and restaurant industry alone. A study by Consad
Research for the National Federation of Independent Businesses,
estimates that a total of 16.5 million people, 1 in 8 workers, could
lose their jobs.

THE NATIONAL HEALTH BOARD WILL TELL YOU WHAT MEDICAL CARE YOU CAN RECEIVE

Clinton has also promised more "equitable" health care. "Equality" will
be achieved by nationalizing 95% of basic medical care -- and by making
inequality of care a federal crime.

A "National Health Board" will determine "age-appropriate immunizations,
tests, and clinical visits." [HSA, p. 89]. Any tests, treatments -- or
doctors -- they don't like can be banned through "utilization review,"
"prior approval for specified services," and "exclusion of providers."
(HSA pp. 130-131)

Government attorneys and bureaucrats -- who haven't had a single day of
medical training -- will control what treatments and tests your doctor
will be allowed to give you. Your doctor will be forced to practice
cook-book medicine, with little concern for your personal needs and
desires. If your doctor deviates from Health Board orders, his medical
license can be revoked, he can be denied payments, and his home and bank
accounts can be seized.

Title I of Clinton's Health Security Act creates government schedules
for nearly every test and treatment, including office visits, surgery,
diagnostic services, and prescription drugs. For example, mammograms for
women 50-65 are to be scheduled "once every two years."

You could be imprisoned for spending your own money on the health care
of your choice.

Under Clinton's plan, the frequency and kind of medical care you are
legally allowed will be strictly rationed. If you attempt to get better
or even different medical care than your neighbor, (e.g., by spending
your own money for a covered operation), both you and your doctor will
be committing a federal crime.

"Health-care providers have no legal right to seek payment from eligible
individuals for any covered items or services. [HSA, p. 103]

The punishment for buying or selling covered medical services outside
Clinton's Plan is "a civil monetary penalty in an amount not to exceed
$50,000" [HSA, p. 947] PLUS 5-15 years in prison.

As former assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts warns:
"Mr. Clinton's plan turns normal patient advocacy into a federal
criminal offense. . . . a doctor who wants an earlier date for surgery
for a needful patient can be accused of using wrongful influence or
accepting a bribe, and sentenced, along with the patient, to 15 years in
prison." [Washington Times, 12-31-93]

If a violation occurs and a patient suffers "serious bodily injury,"
your doctor can be imprisoned for "life or any term of years." [HSA, p.
952].

The new health-care crimes are so vague that any doctor or patient could
be charged. Simple paperwork errors will become federal criminal
offenses.

U.S. criminal law will also be amended so that all of your assets -- or
your doctor's assets, including homes, bank accounts, and savings -- can
be confiscated for health-care "crimes."

No wonder up to half of all doctors surveyed say they may quit medicine
if Clinton's plan -- or anything like it -- passes.

Clinton's plan will result in rationing of every basic medical service --
with deadly consequences.

Making medical care a legal "right," with minimal out-of-pocket expenses
for everyone, will result in life-threatening shortages of many medical
services. As John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave explain in their book
Patient Power . . .

"The potential demand for health care is virtually unlimited. About 83
million people suffer from insomnia, 70 million have severe headaches,
32 million have arthritis, 23 million have allergies."

"In any given year, there are about 472 million office visits to
primary-care physicians. But if only 2% of non-prescription drug
consumers choose professional care rather than self-medication, the
number of patient visits could climb as high as 721 million -- requiring
a 50% increase in the number of primary-care physicians." People who
could successfully treat themselves will crowd out the truly sick.

In every country where government has taken over medicine, there are
frightening shortages of medical care. According to the National Center
for Policy Analysis, in England, over 9,000 people a year die because
they are denied kidney dialysis at government-run hospitals. In Canada,
250,000 people, out of a population of 25 million, are now on hospital
waiting lists for surgery which can stretch to 2 years. And 45% say they
are in pain.

In the U.S., look at how the government runs Veterans Administration
hospitals. You'll frequently find filthy facilities, indifferent or
hostile attendants, shortages of everything. That's the future of
medical care for all of us if the government takes over our health-care
system.

THE END OF YOUR MEDICAL AND PERSONAL PRIVACY.

Under Clinton's plan, your doctor will be forced to turn over all of
your medical information to a federal computer center. Your children
will be registered with the state from birth. If your doctor withholds
any information, he can be fined $10,000 per violation, without trial.
[HSA, p. 871]

You will also be forced to carry a government-issued Health Security
Card which could hold up to 1,600 pages of information about you.

Your mandatory ID card and government health files will make nearly
every detail of your life an open book to millions of bureaucrats, IRS
agents, and police officers. Once they run your card through a scanner,
they'll know everything you've ever written on a medical form or told
your doctor: your address, phone number, employer, drug history, every
physical and mental disorder, pregnancies and abortions -- and even you
doctor's personal notes.

Federal "health-care police" will be able to enter your home at will.

You will have no refuge from federal health bureaucrats. Clinton's plan
creates 105 new government agencies, and greatly expands the power of 42
others. Hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats will monitor you and your
doctor, reeducate your children, and enter your office and home at will.

The Plan's "Comprehensive School Health Education" initiatives authorize
the government to shape your children's behavior involving "Tobacco use;
alcohol and other drug abuse; sexual behaviors ... ; behaviors resulting
in intentional and unintentional injuries; dietary patterns resulting in
disease; and sedentary life styles . . ." [HSA, pp. 607-608]

Federal health-care police are also authorized to enter your home
without search warrants for "indoor air-quality inspections" and "well
baby" visits. If they decide you have an "unhealthy" home environment,
existing child-abuse laws authorize them to immediately take away your
children.

STOP THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE DISASTER

Clinton's health-care plan is not a program of compassionate reform.
It's a plan of cradle-to-grave slavery for all of us.

Our greatest defense against the Clinton health-care disaster is the
truth. Would you voluntarily sign up with a medical plan that gives an
insurer an unlimited claim on your income ... makes it a crime for you
to spend your own money on the medical care of your choice ... and
abandons the sick and elderly to suffer and die?

Of course not. But if you don't get the word out now, you may have no
choice.


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