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Gore and Health Care

  Hillary Clinton was calling for universal health care once again at
the Democratic Party Convention. The Democrats made no effort to educate
the public as to the provisions of Hillary Clinton's 1993 proposal at
that time. In this note you will find listed the major provisions of the
1993 proposal. You will also note that it is difficult to believe that
anyone would make such proposals, but make them she did. It is for that
reason that the Democrats will make no efforts at educating the public
about any future proposal.

  You can be sure that Al Gore and the Democratic Party will support
this plan or a similar one if they are successful in the election.

  Please take the time to read it and research the given references. The
health care of your children and grandchildren will be decided in the
November election.


Hillary's Health Care Village

  Hillary Clinton's Health Security Act, which is 1400 pages long, would
have created 195 Federal bureaucracies to administer the health care.
The act would cap total expenditures at a level determined by a
seven-member National Health Board, which would answer only to the
President of the United States. There would be price controls on
insurance premiums and price controls on payments for medical care. When
expenditures approached the cap, there would be rationing of care.

  There would be prohibitions on purchasing extra insurance to cover
options not available in the plan. Everyone would have the same policy.
If a patient paid a doctor with his or her own money for a procedure
that was not approved, the doctor could be charged with a felony and put
in jail.

  Hillary testified about the plan before the Senate Finance Committee
on Sept. 30, 1993, "people will know they are not being denied treatment
for any reason other than it is not appropriate, will not enhance or
save the quality of life." In short, the Federal bureaucrats would
decide if your quality of life is worth the cost of care that might
extend your life. It will not be your doctor who will make that
decision.

  The elderly, which generally need one-third of their life-time medical
expenses in the last year of life, who are in need of life extending
operations would be denied (reason: care would neither enhance nor save
the quality of one's life).

  Babies with severe birth defects, which costs on the average of
$158,000 to save, would be denied (reason: care would not enhance life).
In socialist Sweden which has a universal health care system, premature
babies with low birth weights are denied the needed care.

  Anyone with an expensive ailment and a poor prognosis would be denied
medical care. In the United Kingdom, seniors are not allowed kidney
dialysis.

  Other procedures that may be denied to the elderly: consider what the
bureacrats will  do with your 70 year old father who needs open heart
surgery, or your 75 year old mother who needs a hip replacement.

   The plan would control medical schools and would restrict the number
of specialists in a given field. New drugs, which could be expensive,
would be denied based on cost, thus curtailing future research and
development.

  Hillary testified concerning living wills, "We do have a lot of extra
costs that most people believe are unnecessary in this system, and
that's one way to weed them out" (translation: let them die).

  The "quality of life" decisions is a euphemism for euthanasia. It
would effect the eldely, the handicapped, the retarded and, indeed, all
the unwanted. Euthanasia has long been a desired program of the liberal
philosophy.

  Included in the liberal philosophy is massive government control of
all aspects of society. Hillary's healthcare program would boost that
philosophy by putting an additional one-sixth of the national economy
under the control of Big Governement.

Time magazine, Feb 14, 1994:
  "Millions of Americans could find that they can no longer see the
physician of their choice."
The plan would create " a vast, multilevel new federal and state
bureacracy with enormous power to regulate all areas of medicine. It is
"riddled with price controls." Situations may develop in which "patients
may be denied critical help."

  In early 1998 the Clintons came back with a plan for Medicare that
would limit the use of CT-scans, MRIs and other procedures on the
elderly. The plan would require notification of the government when the
patient agrees to pay the doctor for services not covered by Medicare.

  Directly paying a doctor for a procedure not covered by Medicare would
be allowed but the added requirement would be that that doctor could not
bill Medicare for any Medicare patients for a period of the following
two years. Since most Medicare patients can not afford to pay medical
bills without insurance, and since doctors, who may have up to 30% of
their patients in the Medicare category, can not afford to give care
without payments, doctors would be forced to deny needed services.
Preventive medicine would be denied as being to costly, and therefore
testing would be denied coverage. As a result, cancer and diabetes would
not be discovered until the procedures required are allowed too late to
help.

   Ira Magaziner, the Federal employee who was legally in charge of
preparing the 1993    legislation, filed an affidavit declaring that
only government employees were working on the plan, and, therefore,
under the Federal Advisory Committe Act, it was not necessary to have
the meetings open to the public. When the issue was taken to court, it
was discovered that there were non-government employees involved and
therefore the law had been violated by the closed meetings.

  There had been a shroud of secrecy to keep the press from learning and
reporting the details of the plan. In that way knowledge of the plan
would not create a discussion by either Congress or the public. It is
that lack of discussion that the Clintons depended on to facilitate the
adoption of the plan into law. It has been the modus operandi of the
Clinton administration to keep the public from knowing of its plans for
as long as possible in order to keep any dissent from surfacing. For
that reason public awareness was kept to a minimum and the provisions of
the plan as mentioned above are largely unknown by the public.

  Eric Holder, a Clinton appointee to U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia, refused to prosecute Magaziner for the perjury committed in
the affidavit. A few weeks later Holder was given the position as Deputy
Attorney General in the Justice Department, second only to Janet Reno.
The judge that discovered the illegalities in the withholding of
information by both Magaziner and Hillary Clinton ordered the
Administration to pay  $286,000 to re-imburse legal costs to the groups
who forced the lie to be exposed in court.

  In summary of the above, the health care plan would have the following
effects:

* cost controls via a cap on spending that would lead to rationing care

* extra insurance would be prohibited which would limit the amount of
major medical insurance one could have, again rationing care

* quality of life decisions made by bureaucrats that would deny care to
selected individuals, again rationing care

* the government would limit the number of specialists that medical
schools could graduate. Obviously, with the limitations on advanced care
under the plan, fewer specialists would be needed.

* price controls on medicines that would discourage research and
development of new medicines

* Big Government control of one-sixth of the American economy

* creation of a massive government bureacracy which would effectively
increase the cost of health care to Americans.

  To research Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan for the government to take
control of all medical care in the United States, go to your local
library and read the news magazines that were published from October
1993 to March 1994.