How Could Owning a Gun Prevent You from Getting Healthcare? (Updated)

We are all quite aware that the Baucus healthcare bill passed through the Senate Finance Committee with promises to increase your healthcare costs and your taxes. Fortunately, the President still does not have the 60 votes needed to make his nationalized healthcare reform pass through as law.

There are still a number of serious concerns lurking around this whole issue. One of the biggest would be the question of just how much health care would increase under the recently passed Baucus bill? One estimate produced by, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, shows that the new legislation could cost the average household of four an estimated $26,000 more per year. That’s right! That is $26,000 that could have been used to purchase firearms and ammunition and instead will be going to support the mandated Obamacare.

What you aren’t seeing in the news is that the nationalized healthcare legislation could very easily be refused to you if you are one of the hundreds of thousands who are gun owners and Second Amendment supporters. No matter which bill you are looking at, there will be a national database which will contain your personal and medical details. It has been reported through a number of sources that medical questionnaires have already been including questions asking if you own guns, along with many other questions that do not pertain to your health. It is the belief of many that these questions have been posed in preparation of the national database.

Reports from GOA have already alerted members of discrimination against gun owners having already occurred by the homeowner insurance industry.

“Gary Atkinson, a South Carolina businessman and Del Bruno, a Connecticut cop, have had a common problem. When their insurance companies found out that they were involved with guns, they had their insurance coverage canceled.”

“After some research, Atkinson learned that State Farm has canceled other people in other parts of the country. It seems they have — for the agents — a permissive policy. If the agent wants to cancel a gun owner, they can do so at their own discretion.”

Now, Gun Owners of America comes out with,

“…proposed healthcare legislation would compile the information of Americans into a government database. The group says that by using this data, the government could deem a citizen “medically unfit” to carry a gun.

“All of the proposals that we’re aware of would handle people’s health data that way,” said Larry Pratt, executive director of the group.

“And then you end up having a gazillion people lose their gun rights because of some medical record that someone doesn’t like, where they say, ‘Oh, that might be a danger to their self or others.’ No trial, no due process, just gone.”

It seems to me that gun owners now have many more reasons to take a stand against the proposed healthcare legislation with the potential for their Second Amendment rights to come under even greater attack.

Other stories of interest:

1. Omaha holds Emergency Healthcare Rally with Large Turnout
2. Healthcare Reform Bill Moves Another Step Closer to Passing
3. Senate Finance Committee Due to Vote on Baucus Healthcare Today
4. Senate Healthcare Bill Could Cost Families $4,000 More per Year
5. The Reality of Government Healthcare Legislation