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If this isn’t proof for those libbers that this bill has absolutely nothing to do with health care reform and all about controlling our lives – in addition to the fact you will go to jail for 15 years if you don’t purchase insurance – there is also language that would potentially force gun-owners to make a decision -

1. Don’t purchase insurance and go to jail for 5 years.

2. Keep your guns and pay higher premiums

3. Get rid of your guns so that you don’t have to pay the higher premiums.

Think I’m kidding – here it is: (opens up a PDF file of the 1990 pages of this monstrosity)

Section 112: Wellness Program Grants

Essentially, this section provides grants to small employers who institute wellness programs as defined by the DHHS Secretary (Anti-gun Sebelius). She gets to make the rules as to what programs qualify. While the language isn’t in there yet – it can be – which I will illustrate shortly.

(a) ALLOWANCE OF GRANT.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this section, the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor shall jointly award wellness grants as determined under this section. Wellness program grants shall be awarded to small employers (as defined by the Secretary) for any plan year in an amount equal to 50 percent of the costs paid or incurred by such employers in connection with a qualified wellness program during the plan year. For purposes of the preceding sentence, in the case of any qualified wellness program offered as part of an employment based health plan, only costs attributable to the qualified wellness program and not to the health plan, or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan, may be taken into account.

So – there is the incentive for small employers – they can get up to $50,000 for instituting a wellness program in their offices.  So what is a qualified wellness program?

(1) QUALIFIED WELLNESS PROGRAM.—The term “qualified wellness program” means a program that —

(A) includes any 3 wellness components described in subsection (c); and

(B) is to be certified jointly by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor, in coordination with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as a qualified wellness program under this section.

(2) PROGRAMS MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH RESEARCH AND BEST PRACTICES.—

(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor shall not certify a program as a qualified wellness program unless the program—

(i) is consistent with evidence-based research and best practices, as identified by persons with expertise in employer health promotion and wellness programs;

(ii) includes multiple, evidence-based strategies which are based on the existing and emerging research and careful scientific reviews, including the Guide to Community Preventative Services, the Guide to Clinical Preventative Services, and the National Registry for Effective Programs, and

(iii) includes strategies which focus on prevention and support for employee populations at risk of poor health outcomes.

Having experience with “best practices and research” one needs to understand that there are already established studies out there, i.e “Youth Violence: A Report of The Surgeon General “ that states children are at risk if there are guns in their homes.  In addition to that report that comes out annually – there are hundreds of other public health studies that are anti-gun that attempt to show that gun ownership is a public health risk.  So – it is only a matter of the DHHS, CDC, and DOL deciding that guns are a public health risk and should be included – yes – they get to change the rules as they see fit:

(B) PERIODIC UPDATING AND REVIEW.—

The Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor, in consultation with other appropriate agencies shall jointly establish procedures for periodic review, evaluation, and update of the programs under this subsection.

So – there it is people. With everything else we have learned about this bill thus far – do you really want to trust this government having free reign to determine what is considered “acceptable behavior”?  This bill has absolutely nothing about reform health care – it is a total power grab and attempt of instituting a European-style nanny-state here in the U.S.  Please call your representatives and tell them this bill HAS to be shot down.  If you can visit them personally – that would be even better.

This is just one example – there are literally dozen’s of these wellness program grants that could be affected – check out this mess – this is the bureaucracy of this bill – you will have to click on it to enlargen to see it clearly – but – to the far right you will see the various “wellness programs” that fall under their purview that can be “updated.”  Feel free to steal this chart and put it up on your blog.

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