Secret Gun Provision in Obamacare!

[Odessa78]

There’s a widely-unknown provision in the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) — legislative wording that is capturing attention in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Pushed by the National Rifle Association (NRA), a newly-noticed regulation that was placed deep within the bill back in 2010, among other things, bans doctors from documenting patients’ answers to questions that focus upon guns.

The Washington Post first reported on Dec. 30 about the presence of this controversial wording. Under a section with the headline “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights,” the NRA-advocated wording is nestled deep within the law. The Post called the inclusion, “a largely overlooked but significant challenge to a movement in American medicine to treat firearms as a matter of public health.”

As the outlet also noted, it was in the final stretch of the debate over Obama’s health care legislation that the NRA successfully pushed to insert this language. Below, see the portions of the Affordable Care Act that include mentions of firearms and the parameters through which doctors must operate in questioning patients (read the entire health care bill here):








This Is How a Secret Gun Provision Made its Way Into Obamacare Legislation | TheBlaze.com

 

[PsyOps]

This abomination of a law sure left nothing untouched.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

This is what happens when morons in office don't read the bills they sign.

Even Obama said "We have to pass it to see what's in the bill".

 

[PsyOps]

This is what happens when morons in office don't read the bills they sign.

Even Obama said "We have to pass it to see what's in the bill".

This is what happens when the people elect morons - over and over again - that don't read the bills they sign.

 

[DynaDink]

This is what happens when the people elect morons - over and over again - that don't read the bills they sign.

Entitlement demographic.

 

[GURPS]

and ?

this seems like a good thing ........ Bureaucrats cannot use PPACA to collect gun ownership info

In addition to gun-owner information and how it must be handled by doctors, the text also notes that the law cannot be used to keep and maintain records of individuals’ firearm possession, nor can it be used to track ammunition. Additionally, the language deals with the price of health care coverage, noting that cost cannot be impacted by the possession or ownership of guns, the Post also reported.

Following the tragedy at Sandy Hook, the presence of this provision has gained some press, with select politicians and medical groups taking a stand against it. Advocates are worried that research and medical care could suffer as a result of the wording; some are even pushing the Obama administration to consider changes to the text in light of recent events and an impending battle over new gun control legislation.

 

[bcp]

This is what happens when morons in office don't read the bills they sign.

Even Obama said "We have to pass it to see what's in the bill".

This is what happens when the people elect morons - over and over again - that don't read the bills they sign.

This is what happens when you let morons vote.

 

[Sparx]

and ?

this seems like a good thing ........ Bureaucrats cannot use PPACA to collect gun ownership info

I'm wondering what the problem is too.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

I'm wondering what the problem is too.

The problem is, why the hell is ANY gun legislation wrapped up in the cluster#### known as Obamacare?

 

[Sparx]

The problem is, why the hell is ANY gun legislation wrapped up in the cluster#### known as Obamacare?

I guess you would have to ask the NRA. It was included at their insistance.

 

[GURPS]

The problem is, why the hell is ANY gun legislation wrapped up in the cluster#### known as Obamacare?

The NRA wanted to make sure any huge db of patient information was not used to build a db of Gun Owners

 

[Lurk]

The NRA wanted to make sure any huge db of patient information was not used to build a db of Gun Owners

It's a good thing someone with strategic vision at the NRA read what little was available to the public as the misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was being drafted. Provisions for central storage and analysis of social/medical data in Washington would have spilled all sorts of strange information into the hands of the bureaucrats. The American College of Pediatrics deems firearms as public health hazards and requires the physicians and nurses caring for children to thoroughly question children (in the absence of their parents) on presence of firearms in the home and the way the weapons are stored, maintained, and used. Couple these two disparate provisions of the Obamacare act and you can see why the NRA acted as they did. They certainly earn my dues money each year.

 

[GURPS]

Provisions for central storage and analysis of social/medical data in Washington would have spilled all sorts of strange information into the hands of the bureaucrats. The American College of Pediatrics deems firearms as public health hazards and requires the physicians and nurses caring for children to thoroughly question children (in the absence of their parents) on presence of firearms in the home

Eggxacary ....... one of the items, School Staff and Question-airs about 'home life' - IIRC has included questions about guns in the house - the CDC keeps sticking its nasal unit into Shooting Deaths as a Public Health / Disease Crisis