By Nancy Matthis | Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
You might have to give up your guns in order to have affordable health insurance, according to an article at the New American:
…Gun Owners of America (GOA) is warning the bill contains language that could be used to ban firearms….
The legislation would require individuals to maintain a certain minimum of insurance coverage, imposing fines for non-compliance. It gives no cost for the policies and provides only a Congressional Budget Office estimate of costs and benefits based on the summary. It also gives power to “define and update the categories of treatments, items and services” contained within the minimum insurance requirement to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
That, says GOA, is a big problem. Sebelius has an anti-gun voting record, and GOA cautions that she would have the power to exclude individuals who engage in sports and self-defense activities that involve firearms. The Baucus bill also contains provisions allowing insurers to charge higher premiums for “unhealthy behavior” but fails to define that term. A bureaucrat like Sebelius could easily rank gun owners in that category says GOA. It cites the current practice of companies like Prudential and State Farm which drop homeowners who refuse to use trigger locks and points out that gun owners would not be able to shop around for other coverage under ObamaCare’s nationalized system….
This is not an unreasonable concern, since Obama and his czars have repeatedly and openly stated their intention to implement a whole host of totalitarian measures, and constantly expressed their admiration for dictators and revolutionaries like Mao Tse-Tung, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Hugo Chávez.
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