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November 2009BCS, Inc.

Courtesy of Dick Morris and Eileen McCann of DickMorris.com here are 11 specific provisions within the current healthcare legislation that make it entirely wrong for America and not the solution to the concerns facing the industry or the average American.

1. The $400 billion cut in Medicare. Coming from reimbursement to hospitals, nursing homes, Doctors, and other providers.

2. The inevitable scarcity that will result from the addition of 35 million new patients with no new doctors or nurses to treat them.

3. The fine on the uninsured of 2.5 percent of their income if they don't buy insurance.

4. The high cost of these mandatory insurance policies ($15,000 per family).

5. The low level of subsidy available for the uninsured (only after they pay 8 percent to 12 percent of their incomes).

6. The likelihood of a $1,700 increase in the average family's premiums.

7. The possibility of up to five years in prison for failing to buy insurance or pay the $250,000 fine.

8. The taxation of medical devices like pacemakers, wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, hearing aids, canes, walkers, diabetic supplies, etc.

9. The tax on sick people (increasing the threshold for deducting medical expenses from 7.5 percent to 10 percent of income.)

10. The additional fiscal burden on the states of the increase in Medicaid eligibility. A great deal of the increase in coverage is a mandated expansion of each state's Medicaid program.

11. The non-indexed 40 percent tax on health insurance premiums that will effect households earning more than $75,000 by the fifth year of the plan.

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