"Health Reform" Passes House, Mandatory Insurance Nears

NoWorldSystem
November 9, 2009

The House of Representatives passed the ominous health reform bill (H.R. 3962) on Saturday night with a tight vote of 220-215, it’s now up to the Senate to pass this disastrous act that will criminalize Americans who don’t buy a $15,000 health insurance plan, if you refuse to comply you could face up to five years in prison or be fined up to $250,000.

Ranking Member of the ‘House Ways and Means Committee’, Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirms that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in this health care bill that passed (H.R. 3962) could land people in jail. The  JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”

Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:

H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.”
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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…”
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“Criminal penalties
Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:
Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]
When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.
“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.
According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016. [Source]

This will take away the individual right to have health insurance or not, this is complete control giving the government power to decide who will pay for the mandate depending of the level of disobedience they will decide if you pay over a half-a-million dollar fine or face prison for up to five years! This will systematically destroy the middle class, break up the families and will increase poverty turning America into a despotic socialist nanny state. The ultra rich one-percent class along with big pharma, the psychology lobby, insurance companies and the prison industrial complex are the only ones that will benefit from this bill.

If you have children and cannot pay for this insurance plan, your kids will be in the hands of the government whom are most likely to get raped or molested. Fortunately we still have time before this legislation reaches the pen of Barack H. Obama, more than ever do we need each other to participate in the fight against this tyrannical nightmare, we have no choice. Contact your RAPEsentatives and demand the death of this bill, reach as many people as you can about the above information and together we will prevail.