Posted on 04/18/2010 10:30:21 AM PDT by SmartInsight
Mindful that the new health care law’s ability to slow rising medical costs will depend to a great extent on how it is put in effect, President Obama is assembling a high-level team to carry out key elements of the overhaul and is considering moving faster than the law requires to put them into action.
Sebelius has begun work on the first of what will be numerous regulations for Medicare, Medicaid and private health care providers.
The secretary can expand successful ideas nationwide without Congress's permission.
Mr. Obama, whose legacy will be shaped less by the law's passage than by how well it works, has begun marshaling what is "essentially the biggest transformation of government since World War II,"...
But Mr. Obama has urged advisers to consider moving sooner to set up an Independent Payment Advisory Board for controlling Medicare spending. Some administration officials, however, fear that creating the board much before 2014 could prematurely make it a target for attacks of the "death panel" sort, leaving it politically vulnerable before its powers to impose changes take effect.
The board was a top priority for Mr. Obama during the long legislative battle.
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Part of the “idiocy” (of all communists, not just Uhbama) is they do not understand that “cost” is different from “price”.
Need to remove him first
tyranny, they need to be challenged on this.
sounds like they want to start the rationing panel now.
Reform bills adds funds for comparitive studies in the drug industry
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/reform_bills_adds_funds_for_co.html
“Avorn says a $3 billion injection of funds from President Obama’s health overhaul bill is certain to accelerate research that compares the effectiveness of drugs and other medical therapies, producing guides for doctors that pharmaceutical companies rarely do.
legislation builds on $1.1 billion designated for this research in the stimulus bill and creates an institute specializing in comparative studies, with at least $500 million in annual funding starting in 2013.
Comparitive studies can also indicate which therapies give the most benefit for their cost...
“We have to do a better job of being able to say to doctors and their patients what constitutes effective care, both cost effective and clinically effective,” Sullivan said. “That’s what comparative effectiveness research can do.”
Next conclusion — treating people older than 60 years old or anyone with chronic conditions is just NOT cost effective.
Just think, if they could kill of the seniors, prior to the November elections, the Dems may be able to keep Congress...
A strong Republican Congress may be able to start impeachment proceedings — there is enough reason for it.
November 2010 will make November 1994 look like a day at the beach!
What is needed is an injunction to stop this until the courts can rule on the constitutionality of this mess.
Exactly like the EPA passing carbon rules and setting EPA standards.
Got to be stopped.
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It’s government versus the people.
I hope they get a move on. The clock is ticking.
Don’t they mean putting this in effect “faster than the law Allows”?
Will be held up by lawsuits, thank heavens.
The Cloward-Piven strategy has always had a major flaw: it assumes that if the left can break the “capitalist system” badly enough, that people will demand socialism. The Tea Party movement shows that what happens when the left starts breaking the system is that people demand the government get back inside the boundaries of the Constitution and left the capitalist system work.
The Payment Advisory Board discovers how to control Medicare spending.
This statement is effectively true. Congress has already granted it's permission for the HHS Secretary to do anything she wants to do. Just wait until she releases the mandate that all insurers must cover abortions. Basically, Congress already signed off on this, and it will require passage of another law to overturn it. And there is no way that is going to happen with Obama still in office.
The real plan after the blue smoke and mirror act regarding cost savings is over to get the basic legislation passed. Now cost doesn’t matter any longer, just bringing care to the children.
“Hussein truly wants to control our lives.....”
I believe he does want control. However, I don’t think he knows the heart of America. We will put him down.
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