Citing the Heath and Human Services website, a report posted Wednesday at the Freedom Outpost says that under Obamacare, government agents can engage in \u201chome health visits\u201d for those in certain \u201chigh-risk\u201d categories.<\/p>\n
Those categories include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Families where mom is not yet 21;
\n\u2022 Families where someone is a tobacco user;
\n\u2022 Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities, and
\n\u2022 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.<\/p>\n
According to HHS, the visits fall under what is called the \u201cMaternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program\u201d allegedly designed to \u201chelp parents and children,\u201d and could impact millions of Americans.<\/p>\n
Constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown said that despite what HHS says, the program is not \u201cvoluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d he said. \u201cA homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to \u2018intervention\u2019 in \u2019school readiness\u2019 and \u2019social-emotional developmental indicators.\u2019 A farm family may be subject to \u2018intervention\u2019 in order to \u2018prevent child injuries.\u2019 The sky is the limit.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIntervention,\u201d he added, quoting Brown, \u201cmay 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 \u2013 or no \u2013 interaction with parents. The federal government will now set the standards for raising children and will enforce them by home visits.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Cook, the program will require collection of a massive amount of private information including all sources of income and the amount gathered from each source.<\/p>\n