These people are scumbags. They are creating the equivalent of Nazi death camps. The American Holocaust is expanding from mass murder of our innocent unborn to the mass murder of the elderly and handicapped.
I'm sure that the AARP will get the elderly to stop off at the polling places to vote for this and other leftist schemes one last time on their way to these "medical homes." Hey, the dead can't ask for a refund of their annual dues.
Mark
Actually, they’d create just a bunch of screening sites for the death camps.
The “Patient Centered Medical Home” is the name of a well-meaning scheme to re-create the solo family doctor type of care within big practices. The “team” would be bound by all sorts of protocols and electronic reminders to follow up and follow through, so that a patient is more likely to be followed by the same people, less likely to fall through the cracks or get the run around through unnecessary and redundant tests, sub-specialists, etc.
The problem, in addition to the assumption in Washington that you’re only worth your next donation to the DNC, is that the bill would allow these PCMH’s to be headed by nurse practitioners, not just family docs, internal medicine docs or pediatricians.
They would also probably be lumped in with a local hospital and out patient care group to ‘manage’ the patients’ disease care:
30 day bundling of hospital and post-hospital care.
Bullet points to be met for each disease classification.
Step wise “evidence based” medication and therapy, with little recourse for those of us who don’t fit the protocol or who wish to skip a few steps, even if we can afford to pay out of pocket.
And, yes, 4 States allow “physician assisted death” (which still stinks of suicide and murder, no matter what you call it).
Some docs will probably find ourselves practicing under ground, eventually. And if our experience with Shalala (who threatened to prosecute Medicare patients who dared to pay their own money) is any indication, the patients will have to find a back alley doctor, too.
There is no difference. This meets the definition of Concentration Camps.
Yet the same leftists that propose such barbaric treatment of our elderly and disabled citizens fight with every breath to get terrorists out of Gitmo, criminals out of prison, and to keep the dangerous mentally ill on our streets. Not to mention their relentless fight to let millions of illegal aliens stay in our country and millions more to come!
It’s insane!
You are absolutely right, sir.