Congress Trying to Implement the Medical Records Gun Ban

[Beretta Bob]

Have you guys heard this shit?

Congress Trying to Implement the Medical Records Gun Ban
-- Step #2 in fraudulent budget process comes to a vote on Wednesday

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Congress is moving closer to a showdown over the largest expansion of government in modern U.S. history -- a bill which would require virtually every single American to buy government-approved health insurance, whether they wanted it or not. And, in the process, that bill would feed all of your most confidential medical data into an enormous database, which could be used to take away your guns.

This is a bit complicated. But here's where we are:

Once a year, the 1974 Budget Act allows Congress to pass a bill -- solely for the purpose of balancing the budget -- and that bill cannot be filibustered in the Senate. Hence, it can be passed with only fifty Democrat votes (plus the vice president), without any Republican support.

Now, that supposed "budget-balancing bill" is called the "reconciliation bill" -- and it can only be created if the annual budget resolution mandates it.

Three weeks ago, the Senate considered its version of the annual budget resolution. Gun Owners of America asked you to oppose passage of the Senate version of the budget resolution for two reasons:

* First, although the Senate version of the bill did not contain language mandating the giant anti-gun database and the huge $10,000+ per person government health mandate, the Pelosi-devised House version did.

* Second, although Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) protested mightily that the Senate version did not mandate the anti-gun database and health mandate, GOA found out that Conrad intended all along to capitulate in House/Senate conference to the Pelosi language.

Now, the budget resolution has come back from conference, and guess what?

Budget Chairman Conrad stabbed us in the back, just as GOA thought he would. His actions meant that Senators didn't have to go on record voting for gun control the first time around.

The conference report gives Senate and House Republicans until September to cave in and agree to pass the anti-gun database and $10,000+ health mandate. And, if they do not, the Left Wing Democratic leadership will pass their own bill with 50 Senate votes -- and no Republicans.

And, incidentally, when we say "anti-gun database," we mean that everything your kid told his pediatrician about whether you have a gun collection will be searchable by the government. And people with Alzheimer's, ADHD, and other disorders will begin losing their gun rights just as quickly as veterans -- who have seen the ramifications of being on a government database.

Although the next vote on this budget resolution will not be the final battle in this eight-month war, GOA is asking senators and representatives to vote against the sleazy, corrupt budget resolution conference report -- scheduled for a Senate vote this Wednesday.

Incidentally, the one thing that the federal government can do to reduce health costs is to remove the anti-gun federal laws which prohibit more Americans from using firearms to defend themselves and their families.

ACTION:

Contact your senators and representative. Ask them to vote against the "fraud scheme" which the budget resolution conference report has become.

Please use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your legislators the pre-written e-mail message below.

You can also call them toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear

The budget resolution conference report would set the stage for legislation to require virtually every American to purchase government-approved health insurance. And it would use government control over health insurance to require providers to feed our most confidential medical data into an anti-gun government database.

When I say "anti-gun database," I mean that everything a kid tells his pediatrician about his dad's gun collection will be searchable by the government. And people with Alzheimer's, ADHA, and other disorders will begin losing their gun rights just as quickly as veterans -- who have seen the ramifications of being on a government database for the last decade.

The budget resolution was sold to the Senate under a lie. Senators were told that the Senate version contained no "reconciliation instructions"
when, all along, Budget Chairman Kent Conrad intended to immediately capitulate in conference.

Please show that such underhanded tactics are unacceptable in the Congress. Please vote against the budget resolution conference report.


Sincerely,


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[dc dalton]

Sorry but I call bullshit on this one!

Your medical records are going to become an anti-gun database?

BULLSHIT

As far as the rest of the bill (if in fact it is reported correctly ... I know this group and they have a high tendency to really stretch the truth) doesn't surprise me one bit ... they want socialized medicine and they will get it eventually.

[Morel42]

There are so many factual errors the original post, It's really not worth the time to explain them..

So.. I'm with DC.. Bullshit.. lol

[Eugene V. Debs]

Sorry but I call bullshit on this one!

Your medical records are going to become an anti-gun database?

BULLSHIT

My thoughts exactly. Reads like paranoid BS with no corroboration.

As far as the rest of the bill (if in fact it is reported correctly ... I know this group and they have a high tendency to really stretch the truth) doesn't surprise me one bit ... they want socialized medicine and they will get it eventually.

They do NOT want socialized medicine-- they don't even want socialized health insurance (or else they'd be pushing HR 676 instead of a mandate plan)-- what they want is a corporate welfare plan (think Medicare Part D on a much larger scale) that they will sell to the public as "universal healthcare".

[Burton]

This won't happen just on the sheer fact that by law you have the right to disable all participation as a patient in any medical network or health information exchange. The notion that your medical data will aggregate down to every single detail in your record is technologically impossible at this point and only pertains to major standardized items like meds, allergies, problems, etc but NOT social history (where gun ownership question is sometimes asked).