Health Plan Could Feed Your Gun-related Data Into A National Database

[Mr. T]

Health Plan Could Feed Your Gun-related Data Into A National Database

And charge you $10,000 a year for the privilege

 

 

Thursday, April 2, 2009

 

In a year when trillion dollar bailouts have become routine, many Americans have become almost numb to our acceleration towards socialism.

 

But gun rights activists aren't in that crowd, and so GOA has to inform you of yet ANOTHER threat to your privacy, the Second Amendment, and even your wallet.

 

It is called an "individual mandate" or, alternatively, the "Massachusetts plan." And over the weekend, both the Washington Post and the New York Times worked hard to build momentum for it.

 

First, a little history.

 

We alerted you a few weeks ago to the gun control provisions in the stimulus bill that President Obama signed in February. Our government will now spend between $12 and $20 BILLION to require the medical community to retroactively put our most confidential medical records into a government database -- a database that could easily be used to deny veterans (and other law-abiding Americans) who have sought psychiatric treatment for things such as PTSD.

 

Currently, gun owners can avoid getting caught in this database by refusing to purchase health insurance or by purchasing insurance with a carrier that has not signed an agreement with the government to place your records in a national database.

 

But that's all about to change. A budget resolution -- to be voted on this Friday in the Senate -- will be the first domino in a process that could FORCE you to buy government-approved insurance, thus making it impossible to avoid the medical database.

 

Put another way: If you do not have health insurance -- or, potentially, if you do not have the TYPE of health insurance the government wants you to have -- the government will force you to purchase what it regards as "acceptable" health insurance. And, in most cases, you will have to pay for it out of your own pocket.

 

What would all this cost? Based on comparable insurance currently on the market, it could cost $10,000 a year -- or more.

 

If you were jobless, the socialists would probably spot you the ten grand. But if you are middle class and can't pay $10,000 because of your mortgage payments, your small business, or your kids' college education, you would be fined (over $1,000 a year currently in Massachusetts). And, if you couldn't pay the confiscatory fine, you could ultimately be imprisoned.

 

Scary, you say. But why is this a Second Amendment issue? Under the Massachusetts plan, your MANDATED insurance carrier has to feed your medical data into a centralized database -- freely accessible by the government under federal privacy laws.

 

So... remember when your pediatrician asked your kid if you have a firearm in the home? Or when your dad was given a prescription for Zoloft because of his Alzheimer's? Or when your wife mentioned to her gynecologist that she had regularly smoked marijuana ten years ago?

 

All of this would be in a centralized database. And all of it could potentially be used to vastly expand the "prohibited persons" list maintained by the FBI in West Virginia.

 

How serious a threat is this?

 

If it gets into the budget resolution the Senate will consider on Friday, it will be almost impossible to strip out later. It will be as much of a done-deal as the stimulus package was.

 

We have asked senators to introduce language to prohibit such an individual mandate for socialized medicine that would violate the privacy of gun owners. In the absence of such an amendment, we are asking senators to vote against the budget resolution.

 

read on.... http://gunowners.org/a040209htm.htm

 

The Obama Plan is what it should be called

 

 

[calfoxwc]

While Heck is saying our taxes won't go up, I guess that 10,000 dollars isn't a tax.

 

Oh, THAT's why our taxes won't go up. we have to give all our monies to them in fees.

 

The upside is - the politcal pendulum will swing back the other direction in a big way.

 

I met some Dems who voted for Obama at the tea party.

 

One lady even cried when people were talking in a group before it started.

 

She didn't know she was voting for a socialist who was unAmerican and anti-God.

[Mr. T]

While Heck is saying our taxes won't go up, I guess that 10,000 dollars isn't a tax.

 

Oh, THAT's why our taxes won't go up. we have to give all our monies to them in fees.

 

The upside is - the politcal pendulum will swing back the other direction in a big way.

 

I met some Dems who voted for Obama at the tea party.

 

One lady even cried when people were talking in a group before it started.

 

She didn't know she was voting for a socialist who was unAmerican and anti-God.

 

The warnings went out but the Obama election was bought and paid for by foreigners and Soros, people who hate America and what she stands for, they wanted a Socialist dictator to take the helm.

 

American Idol plain and simple.

[calfoxwc]

But Heck likes Soros. A lot. Maybe kinda like Obama liked Frank Davis in Hawaii.

 

Or not. We'll never know, I'm sure.

 

but, I'll give Heck credit for not liking what's going on...

 

if he had the nads to actually learn about what's going on.

[calfoxwc]

More of Heck's "Sound of Silence".

 

Boy, that song is played too much.

 

But not as much as Shep plays it. @@

[Mr. T]

Heck cannot reply because of the truth on the reporting of this is unconstitutional.

 

Liberals are always trying to slant and redefine words, just like slick Willy on what is the defintion of is. In his grand jury testimony.

 

What a putz.