Where did ya hear that rumor?
on local NPR station. I went to their website, but can't find that program linked in their archive.
Its irrelevant becuase there is no national health care program. Read the bill. Its 2000 pages of the biggest font you have ever seen made for the eyes of old senators. What that means is that its a few hundred ACTUAL pages full of text and therefore anyone who can read can take a few hours and read it themselves instead of listening to crazy rumors someone makes up,or repeats on the internet. The first changes most people will see from it are a prohibition on denial of health care for children with preexisting conditions and the requirement that adults up to age 26 be allowed to remain on their parents insurance under certain circumstances. Additionally,I beleive the high risk insurance pools for people with preexisting conditions have already been implemented. This is a stopgap until the total prohibition of pre-existing conditions goes into effect. This program has been criticized becuase while the premiums are lower than you could be purchased otherwise,they are still rather high and many still cannot afford coverage.
The fact is,anything anyone tells you about how the "Government run healthcare" is going to require some crazy condition to take part in,like getting a chip implanted,agreeing not to own a gun and turning all of yours in,or drinking goats blood on the Sabbath,or that it will do some crazy thing like round up and murder your grandparents,is false,not just becuase of the tinfoil hat predictions it makes,but becuase they IS NO GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE. (Well,except for medicare,and what the armed forces run,but those have been around for years)