Posted on 02/14/2009 4:13:23 PM PST by John Semmens
The 1,000+ pages of President Obama’s so-called economic stimulus bill contains language establishing a new National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (NCHIT) bureaucracy that will be charged with tracking and prescribing “allowable” health care treatments for all Americans.
The new bureaucracy was the “brain child” of Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee, former senator Tom Daschle (D-S. Dak). “Health care costs in this country have been getting out of hand because we’re spending too much on the wrong treatments for the wrong people,” Daschle contended. “The current anarchic system allows individuals to make selfish choices that may not benefit society as a whole.”
“We need to impose order on this chaos by factoring-in key social and actuarial data to determine which individuals society should invest its scarce health dollars in,” he continued. “Expensive therapies must be reserved for only the most deserving. Frankly, some are too old or unimportant to lay claim to these treatments. It will be up to the NCHIT to decide who can and can’t be accommodated.”
In related news, there is rising speculation that Houston Astros’ shortstop Miguel Tejada, may be in line for the Secretary of HHS job now that Daschle has withdrawn. Tejada’s steroid abuse and subsequent admission that he lied to congress about it is seen as an asset. “Tejada has personal experience with a significant health issue,” said Presidential Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. Gibbs dismissed lying to congress as “something that everybody does, including congressmen themselves. May I also point out that former President Clinton was a perjurer, but that didn’t stop him from being a great president.”
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I also have one of those clueless lefty sisters, they brainwashed her at UC Berkeley and she’s never been the same since. Frustrating, isn’t it, in your own family?
John: I trust your continued investigation on this Socialized Medicine matter will include Hillary Clinton’s proposal that all children be conceived by “IVF” so as to take away the taint of male superiority and substitute a more fair distribution of sperm in a “pay for play” reversal of “play for pay”. It is unconsciable that one woman have to bear 14 children in a selfless act of consuming tax payer dollars, even as these ethical scientific advances are being overshadowed by normal procreation efforts. It is time to put a stop to stuff.
Reality gets closer and closer to your satire every day, doesn’t it?
Regrettably, if this keeps up you may need to find a new hobby.
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