PAGE 44—Section 401(b)(1)(B)(ii) requires doctors and hospitals to report, as part of an “adequate national database,” specific information about health-care employees’ hours worked, wage information, and job titles by department—with no protections whatever for employee privacy.
PAGE 63—Section 611 creates a system of global budgets to fund hospitals’ quarterly operating expenses, which could cause them to curtail patient care if those lump-sum payments prove insufficient.
PAGE 78—Section 614(b)(2) prohibits federal dollars from subsidizing any profit by medical providers, forcibly destroying tens of billions of dollars of value held by shareholders in these companies, including in Americans’ mutual funds and 401(k)s.
PAGE 78—Section 614(b)(4) prohibits federal dollars from subsidizing consultants who educate workers about collective bargaining, stifling providers’ First Amendment rights to communicate with their employees.
PAGE 80—Section 614(c)(4) prohibits hospitals from using federal dollars to operate new facilities built with hospitals’ own money, confirming that the single-payer system will constrain costs by limiting the available supply of care.
PAGE 81—Section 614(f) prohibits the use of “quality metrics or standards” when reimbursing providers, meaning the government will pay bad doctors and hospitals exactly the same as good ones.
PAGE 84—Section 616(3) requires the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to seize a drug maker’s patents if the manufacturer will not agree to an “appropriate price” for the drug, discouraging investors from funding new therapies because their intellectual property could get seized on a bureaucrat’s whim.
PAGE 91—Section 701(b)(2)(B) allows the HHS secretary to alter appropriations to the single-payer program in future years, taking the constitutional “power of the purse” away from Congress and putting it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.
In addition to all the provisions outlined above, the House bill also includes provisions summarized in the reading guide to the Senate bill (S. 1129), albeit in slightly different form and with different page numbers.