Secret Gun Provision in Obamacare Revealed

There’s an unknown provision buried deep in the Affordable Healthcare Act, that most don’t know about. In 2010 it was pushed by the NRA, which bans doctors from documenting patients’ answers to questions that focus upon guns.

Under a section with the headline “Protection of Second Amendment Gun Rights,” the NRA-advocated wording is nestled deep within the law. The Post called the inclusion, “a largely overlooked but significant challenge to a movement in American medicine to treat firearms as a matter of public health.”

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But it was in the final stretch of the debate over Obama’s health care legislation that the NRA successfully pushed to insert this language.

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Then on Tuesday, CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke on-air with “Situation Room” host Wolf Blitzer. The two discussed how the gun provision made its way into health care legislation, while also explaining portions of the text for viewers.

According to Grupa, the wording was added because the NRA insisted that patients should not be penalized or discriminated against for owning firearms. As can be seen from the above portion of the legislation, while doctors are not banned from asking about guns, they are forbidden from documenting the information and using it for research purposes.

The text also states that the law cannot be used to keep and maintain records of individuals’ firearm possession, nor can it be used to track ammunition. Additionally, the language deals with the price of health care coverage, noting that cost cannot be impacted by the possession or ownership of guns. But since the Sandyhook shooting, which liberals are using to capitalize on politically, certain politicians and medical groups taking a stand against it. Advocates are worried that research and medical care could suffer as a result of the wording; some are even pushing the Obama administration to consider changes to the text in light of recent events and an impending battle over new gun control legislation.

So we must follow the healthcare law, but when it goes against what liberals want, ie, take away guns from law abiding citizens, in mid stream, they want to change it, yet no one else can change things.

The NRA says they requested the provision out of concern that insurance companies could use such data to raise premiums on gun owners. The measure’s supporters in the Senate say they did not intend to interfere with the work of doctors or researchers.

The interesting part is that the notion that it was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), an NRA-supporter, who added the wording to the bill back in 2010. The language was purportedly added to stem off criticism from the NRA that could have railroaded, delayed or prevented the controversial health care bill from passing. Also, the wording was placed deep within the bill in an effort to convince people not to embrace so-called conspiracy theories about Obamacare — mainly that the legislation would be used to keep and maintain a massive gun-ownership database.