Posted on 02/09/2009 11:54:23 AM PST by patriotmediaa
There’s Socialized Medicine Burried in Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan Posted February 9th, 2009 at 11.23am in Health Care. Dr. Steven West, president of the Florida Medical Association, notes that the economic stimulus bill contains a down payment on President Barack Obama’s plans for socialized medicine:
As Congress rushes its economic stimulus plan to the desk of President Obama, its grand vision of health reform has been secretly buried inside: rationing patient care and dispensing cookbook medicine.
That vision involves using large government bureaucracy and computer technology to tell patients what kind of care they can receive from their doctors. The congressional rationing plan will make doctors supplicants to big government and big insurance, rather than independent advocates for their patients. In the system that Congress envisions, the doctor serves the payer and not the patient.
Congress seeks $20 billion of spending on Health Information Technology (HIT) and more than $1.1 billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). … If Americans give government and insurance companies the power to pay for care, it should come as no surprise when these third parties try to determine what they will cover and what they deem to be minimum standards of care. … Scientific studies have shown that strict adherence to these best practices does not prolong patients’ lives or cure their illnesses. Worse, this committee medicine has had harmful side effects for patients. In this system, the report-card score is the most important, while patient outcomes, patient satisfaction with care and the value of medical care take a back seat.
To achieve excellence in medical care, doctors must have the flexibility to practice medicine based on the needs of each patient, not arbitrary payer formulas and thresholds. Government has displayed a dismal track record of protecting the integrity of important institutions such as our housing and banking systems.
We are not willing to blindly turn over increased control of our family’s health care to these same officials in Congress or the government
oh please, the sheeple would fall all over themselves for ‘free healthcare’ without a thought about the details. Because the MSM won’t report the details.
There is socialized everything hidden in Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan for America.
Rationed health care. BUMP this up.
Too bad for the elderly.
There will be a database that has all your health records (so much for privacy) and the doctors will have to submit requests for any services he thinks you need but if the guvmint thinks you’re not worth saving and it may not be cost wise to keep you alive ... you die.
They have put all their socialist programs in this. It’s not stimulus. It’s theft.
There is no free lunch, we have just too many old people.
Yet we can afford turd world illegals free health care, as many that can sneak in.
wait until they ban private medicine. Imagine a millionaire businessman, ‘job creator’ being denied life-saving treatment because its illegal to pay for it yourself.
The evilcrats once again sneaking this through so it won’t be able to be debated.
just shameful. I guess old Alen Spector would have been on the “you get to die” rollcall a long time ago....oh wait....he is a senator, this won’t affect him.
I don’t consider myself elderly, but I am 66 and on Medicare and this scares the Hell out of me.
I thought I heard this quote somewhere “... you get the same healthcare coverage that senators and congressman get”
I just can’t remember where I heard that (SARCASM/ON)
Daschle-Obama-Hillary! health kare (DOH!)
Health care for all the world's humanity
but if you are seriously ill American elderly
none for thee.
Die already.
BTW, enough Baby Boomers will not make it past 65 that this makes DOH! the solution for Social Security's funding shortfall. That's the plan.
Too bad more elderly people didn’t realize just what SOCIAL HEALTHCARE is.
I guess many who voted for the socialist will soon regret that decision.
All the younger people who voted for the socialist, thinking they would actually get something for free have a big disappointment coming now and when they get old.
Will we see a real life Logan’s Run some day. May be.
Those a***** and their families don’t have to worry about no stinkin
healthcare problems. They’re privileged.
“Burried”???
BUMP for the evening crew.
***Those a***** and their families don’t have to worry about no stinkin
healthcare problems. They’re privileged.***
Congress and their families get free lifetime health care.
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