Continuing to peel back the layers of the onion

Guess who wants a gander at your tax returns? The Health Choices Administration, that’s who.

From Section 431 of H.R. 3200:

`(A) IN GENERAL- The Secretary, upon written request from the Health Choices Commissioner or the head of a State-based health insurance exchange approved for operation under section 208 of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, shall disclose to officers and employees of the Health Choices Administration or such State-based health insurance exchange, as the case may be, return information of any taxpayer whose income is relevant in determining any affordability credit described in subtitle C of title II of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Such return information shall be limited to--

(italics, ours)

Now, why oh why would the feds want to know what your tax returns look like with respect to healthcare? Especially when it involves some entity called the Health Choices Administration and which is linked to some Obamacare commodity, affordability credits.

Against the backdrop of "We are God's partners in matters of life and death," and the notion that destroying functioning resources is good for the economy, it is not unfair at all to play connect-the-dots to see where this may lead.

This speaks directly to the existence or lack thereof with respect to “death panels”. It simply re-enforces our argument that provisions like this and the vague and weasel-wording of other provisions like that contained in section 1233 make the arguments of whether “death panels” actually exist and if rationing will be the end-state of Obama-care, moot points. It’s all moot because the apparatus exists within the bill to effect the same unsavory results as would an actual “death panel” or the explicit goal of rationing healthcare.

It's been said that the administration has bungled the pitch for healthcare. To an extent, there have been tactical errors made but how can one effectively pitch a plan that is this horrible?

We will note that as recently as a few weeks ago, H.R. 3200 was available only in .pdf form. Any transcribing to a blog like this had to be done by hand. Now, it's been "translated" and sections of the entire bill can be cut'n'pasted to the preferred vehicle of information dissemination.

Bottom line: the word is out and the indefensible only becomes more so with the passage of time.