Obamacare May Target Gun Owners.
I don’t really think so, but the text referred to is disturbing.
The Vookh Conspiracy has more:
The rules for a “Wellness Program” begin on page 87. In brief, if you participate in a Wellness Program, you can get a health insurance premium discount of up to 30%. Stated another way, if you don’t participate in a Wellness Program, you will pay a substantial insurance rate penalty for not doing so. The definition of a “Wellness Program” begins in paragraph (B) on page 88:Such as (1) Smoking cessation, (2) Weight management, (3) Stress management, (4) Physical fitness, (5) Nutrition, (6) Heart disease prevention, (7) Healthy lifestyle support, and (8) Diabetes prevention.(B) The wellness program shall be reasonably designed to promote health or prevent disease. A program complies with the preceding sentence if the program has a reasonable chance of improving the health of, or preventing disease in, participating individuals ....Pages 29–30 of the Reid bill mention some of items that “Wellness and Prevention Programs” “may include.”
What’s left?
The phrasing does not appear to exclude other items.
From that, I infer the bill would in fact make it easy for a HHS Secretary to write “wellness” program regulations which penalize almost everyone.
And this is an intended consequence: the discount is not based on risk, but on the requirement that the insuree engage in ‘politically correct’ behavior. If that’s not coercion, I don’t know what is.
The text of the bill is here.
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