Patient Protection Affordable Care Act

Let's talk about sections in the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA). I hear so many misrepresentations about what the plan will do and not do. I have the plan in PDF format and in Word on my hard drive. Both are searchable. I refuse to call this health care by Obamacare. If we are going to address this bill, let's call it by its proper name. To access the Plan, you can find it at

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr3590/text.

Today as I was reading through the Plan, particularly because someone said that in the Plan, health care for people over 55 will be denied and you will be allowed to die. This lady had a cousin who is a nurse and her cousin had read that in the Plan. I wondered if this was a cousin to another lady who had another complaint a few weeks ago that claimed the Plan told the doctors what age patients they could accept...That particular office did not accept pediatric or geriatric cases. The nurse cousin said, "It's in the Plan." As I researched the Plan, neither of their concerns are even IN the Plan. Seems everyone has a cousin who is a nurse who read the bill but haven't accessed it for themselves. Or they have a preacher who knew someone that heard something at a meeting from someone else who may have seen the Plan fly by on the Internet. Sort of like the old children's game of Gossip. The original truth is buried in whatever people think they heard.

From my observations, people are taking sections out of context in the Plan just as they do in the Bible and turn it to suit whatever fear mongering factor they want it to say.

When reading a section, you have to start at the beginning of the section and work down. You have to read the other sections mentioned.

Nowhere did I find anything that referred to patients over the age of 55 not getting treatment. What I did find are specific references protecting patients' from being discriminated against by insurance and health care providers based on disability, health/mental status, and other factors.

The second lady with a nurse cousin said her cousin's office couldn't treat anyone under the age of 19 and over the age of 60. Guess who she blamed for that? President Obama. I have been unable to find that in the PPACA, too. What I do know from experience is that doctors purchase their medical malpractice insurance based on the type of practice the doctor/practice wishes to provide. The type of medical malpractice insurance the medical practice purchases has nothing to do with the PPCAC.

Brenna and I had read the Plan together. Reading the Plan is like reading the Bible every day. Each time you read it, you learn something new and receive clarification.