Please put on your tinfoil hat for a moment.
Citing the Heath and Human Services website, a report posted Wednesday at the Freedom Outpost says that under ObamaCare, government agents can engage in “home health visits” for those in certain “high-risk” categories.
Those categories include:
  • Families where mom is not yet 21;
  • Families where someone is a tobacco user;
  • Families where there is a firearm in the home;
  • Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities, and
  • Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States.
Constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown said that despite what HHS says, the program is not “voluntary.”
“The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks,” he said. “A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to ‘intervention’ in ‘school readiness’ and ‘social-emotional developmental indicators.’ A farm family may be subject to ‘intervention’ in order to ‘prevent child injuries.’ The sky is the limit.”
Joshua Cook said that while the administration would claim the program only applies to those on Medicaid, the new law, by its own definition, has no such limitation.
“Intervention,” he added, quoting Brown, “may be with any family for any reason. It may also result in the child or children being required to go to certain schools or taking certain medications and vaccines and even having more limited – or no – interaction with parents. The federal government will now set the standards for raising children and will enforce them by home visits.”
South Carolina State Rep. Bill Chumley introduced a measure that would make the forced home visitations illegal in his state. The measure passed in the House but died in the Senate. In 2011, he noted, HHS said $224 million would be allocated to support these home visiting programs.
Personally, I think that ObamaCare will end up being quietly folded into Medicare and we’ll see a lot of this die on the vine for lack of funding. BUT what it shows is where the Obama Administration would like to go with this initiative if they had the money to pull it off.

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  1. I blip two of the criteria for home visits, if such a thing ever came to pass. I don't think it will happen either… but just the fact that its out there as a possibility irritates me.

    That would be an extremely interesting visit, for everyone concerned.

  6. The ObamaNation just makes up the rules as they go along and use their bully boys in the IRS, EPA and Department of Homeland Security to enforce them.

  9. Apparently they're blowing up all of the MRAPs in Afghanistan because they're too expensive to ship back to the US. Cheaper to buy new ones.

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