Ready for your prostate exam?

This is so outrageous it's life threatening. Literally.

Please read this, especially the reference to pages 58 & 59

Thomas Edwards, editor of The River Cities Tribune, was contacted to get
legal permission to quote David Kithil's comments. Permission was
granted, so here are excerpts from the article, giving EXACT pages and
paragraphs in the bill and why it is so bad.

You can forward this to all of your email contacts.  I think Judge Kithil
hits everything right on the head, and the opposition you may encounter
cannot argue over these points:

  JUDGE KITHIL wrote:

"I have reviewed selected sections of the bill and find it unbelievable
that our Congress, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could come up with a bill
loaded with so many wrong-headed elements.

We do need to reform the health insurance system in America in order to
make coverage affordable and available to everyone.  But, how many of us
believe our federal government can manage a new program any better than
the bankrupt Medicare program or the underfunded Social Security program?

"Both Republicans and Democrats are equally responsible for the financial
mess of those two programs.

"I am opposed to HB 3200 for a number of reasons.  To start with, it is
estimated that a federal bureaucracy of  more than 150,000 new employees
will be required to administer HB3200.  That is an unacceptable expansion
of a government that is already too intrusive in our lives.  If we are
going to hire 150,000 new employees, let's put them to work protecting
our borders, fighting the massive drug problem and putting more law
enforcement/firefighters out there."

NOW, here comes the good stuff:

JUDGE KITHIL continued:  "Other problems I have with this bill include:

** Page 50/section 152:  The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S.
residents, even if they are here illegally.


** Page 58 and 59:  The government will have real-time access to an
individual's bank account and will have the authority to make electronic
fund transfers from those accounts.


** Page 65/section 164:  The plan will be subsidized (by the government)
for all union members, union retirees and for community organizations
(such as  the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -
ACORN).


** Page 203/line 14-15:  The tax imposed under this section will not be
treated as a tax.  (How could anybody in their right mind come up with
that?)


** Page 241 and 253:  Doctors will all be paid the same regardless of
specialty, and the government will set all doctors' fees.


** Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care according to
the patient's age.


** Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on hospital
expansion;however, communities may petition for an exception.


** Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care planning
consultations.  Those on Social Security will be required to attend an
"end-of-life planning" seminar every five years.


** Page 429,  line 13-25:  The government will specify which doctors can
write an end-of-life order.


HAD ENOUGH????  Judge Kithil then goes on:


"Finally, it is specifically stated this bill will not apply to members
of Congress.  Members of Congress are already exempt from the Social
Security system and have a well-funded private plan that covers their
retirement needs.  If they were on our Social Security plan, I believe
they would find a very quick 'fix' to make the plan financially sound for
the future."

Honorable David Kithil
Marble Falls , Texas