After reading just 16 pages of the healthcare bill unveiled by House Democrats this week, the Investor's Business Daily found

...a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

Skeptical that that could not possibly be truth, they

...sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

And, unfortunately,

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage.

The relevant language, which you can find your self on page 16 here, in a section talking about "grandfathering" current private insurance, says

Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

The IBD's assessment:

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

And their conclusion nails it:

Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn't be killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans' lives.

It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. It's scary to think how many more breaches of liberty we'll come across in the final 1,002.

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1. Set up this action page

2. Made it easy here for you to send a letter to the editor of your newspaper

3. Created a Health Care Action kit we sent to our members over July 4th recess

4. And hope you know about the September 12 Taxpayer March on Washington