PAGE 4—Section 102(a) makes “every individual who is a resident of the United States” eligible for the new program, encouraging foreign citizens to travel to America to receive “free” health care.
PAGE 5—Section 104(a) prohibits providers that participate in the new program from “den[ying] the benefits of the program” to individuals based on a series of conditions, including “termination of pregnancy”—forcing doctors and hospitals to perform abortions or other procedures that violate their religious beliefs.
PAGE 8—Section 107(a) makes private health insurance “unlawful,” taking away the existing health coverage of approximately 300 million Americans.
PAGE 14—Section 202(a) prohibits cost-sharing, except for a maximum of $200 per year in pharmaceutical co-pays, encouraging over-consumption of “free” care.
PAGE 31—Section 303(c)(2)(B) prohibits any provider who opts out of the single-payer program to care for a single patient from billing that program for any service provided to any patient for at least one year, a coercive restriction designed to force doctors and hospitals to remain in the government program.
PAGE 47—Section 601(a)(3) contains a mere 58 words directing the secretary of Health and Human Services to determine a “fair allocation” for the national health budget, giving unelected bureaucrats virtually unlimited power over trillions in spending.
PAGE 59—Section 701(b)(3) states that existing restrictions on “any reproductive health service” shall not apply to the new program, overturning more than four decades of bipartisan legislative precedent and allowing for taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
PAGE 63—Section 901(a)(1)(A) states that “no benefits shall be available under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act” once the new single-payer program takes effect, ending the current Medicare program and making the legislation “Medicare for None.”
NOWHERE—The legislation contains none of the tax increases necessary to fund its proposed new spending, estimated to cost at least $32 trillion over ten years.
In addition to the provisions included in the reading guide to the House bill, that legislation (H.R. 1384) also includes the provisions described above. However, the House bill may contain slightly different legislative language, and different page numbers.