Posted on 10/30/2010 12:18:30 PM PDT by goldendays
Obamacare Endgame: Doctors Will be Fined or Jailed if they Put Patients First by Dr. Elaina George If Obamacare is completely implemented, doctors will no longer be practicing medicine. They will instead become the drones tasked with deciding who gets the meager healthcare crumbs doled out by the bureaucrats who have the ultimate power over patient life and death. Those who are deemed to have illnesses that require treatments which are not cost effective can expect a one way ticket to a hospice.
Like so many bills passed by Congress, there was a hidden provision in the Stimulus bill passed in 2009. It spends 1.1 billion dollars to create an important piece of the framework for the healthcare bill called the Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. It is based on the false premise that doctors in consultation with their patients don’t have the ability to make the right healthcare choices (see executive summary). The council consists of 15 people appointed by the President. They all have one thing in common–they are all isolated from day to day patient care; and therefore, are insulated from the real practice of the art of medicine. It makes it easy to see patients as a cost center to be controlled. With views of members like Dr Emanuel, who champions the complete-lives system, it is hard to ignore the probability that senior citizens, those with chronic illness, and the very young will be on the outside looking in. This council is another example of the people of this country being told by the government that it knows what is best for us. The framework set up by the stimulus bill merely set the stage for the implementation found in the healthcare reform bill. How can the government get doctors to participate in Obamacare thereby a) willingly destroying the doctor patient relationship, and b) betraying their Hippocratic Oath to provide treatments that they deem to be effective? Simple – fear and intimidation. A second board created by the stimulus bill called The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology “will determine treatment at the time and place of care”. They are charged with deciding the course of treatment for the diagnosis given by the doctor. Now it becomes obvious why there has been a big push towards the implementation of universal electronic medical record use. It becomes a tool to completely control the physician and the patient. Those physicians and hospitals that choose to practice individualized patient care in consultation with their patients will be punished because they are not “meaningful users of the system over time.” Beginning January 1, 2013 penalties for doing the right thing for a patient will cost the doctor $100,000 for the first offense and jail for the second offense. This will have a chilling effect and may be the straw that completely breaks the foundation of good medicine – the doctor patient relationship.
46% of physiciansin a survey by The New England Journal of Medicine stated that they would leave the practice of medicine if Obamacare was implemented. This will only further decrease the quality of healthcare when the 30 million more people enter the system. Maybe that’s why there is a big push in the healthcare bill to increase the number of other providers such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
There is no question that rationing will become our future. If you add 30 million more people into a system with fewer resources how could you possibly avoid rationing?
Perhaps those members of Congress who passed this nightmare don’t care since they made sure that it wouldn’t apply to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnkxIh62dQ&feature=player_embedded
Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research Membership
Recovery Act Allocates $1.1 Billion for Comparative Effectiveness Research
http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/os/cerbios.html
Must be repealed and guilty parties punished brutally.
I so wish someone with the skills would put together a video short of Obama, Pelosi, Biden, et.al during the healthcare debate saying that everyone saying you would be able to keep your doctor and there would be no rationing and it will be cheaper for families, And theta anyone who says otherwise is LYING FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
And then show the giant reversal where now he and they say “”Of coarse there will be rationing, what do you expect”. And outline how people are already loosing coverage and thus their doctors, and the giant jumps in premiums.
There are elderly people and many others out there that still don’t get it
It would be such a slam dunk and the material is so easy to find
Just a few decades ago, Physicians routinely worked all of their lives; even though many could have afforded a well-earned retirement. Within my group of Internists w’ subspecialties some of the partners were working full time into their 80’s then the younger doctors began to retire at 65 or left medicine altogether, with the advent of Medicare’s low reimbursement and piles of regulations.
The practice is now comprised of young, immigrant physicians. The in-house lab and x-ray facilities are closed and tests contracted out. Too much red tape and too little payment.
Assembly line medical care - they really need a union!!!!
Have you looked at Dr. Janda’s video posted above? He pretty much spells it out.
Repeal this communist POS!!
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This is the provision that doomed HilaryCare.
Assisted suicide: a wealthy elite will push vulnerable people to premature death
Great video
Reasonable law for any oppressive tyrannical (or Liberal-run) State.
We have the same scam going on in canada, BC province to be exact. A committee will choose life or death for you. That’s why I know personally canadians who are crossing the border for treatment but you never almost read about it because the canadian feds have capped the stories to make their socialist utopia sound like wonderland.
Dr. Jane Orient
Your Doctor Is Not In
She combines her experience with Medicare, her education in public policy, and a lifetime of practicing internal medicine, to detail exactly what national health care will be like, and why mixing political appointees with patient care won't produce a better system.
Highly recommended for those who are concerned about this issue, and great background information for those who'll be stuck with the task of “fixing” Obamacare.
Here is a rebuttal to Janda’s statements. Not saying which side is right, but we need to check things out before chasing rabbits down a long path.
http://www.impulsenine.com/?p=1629
WE NEED Congressional hearings in 2011 to fight BIG BROTHER! Any better reason to de-fund NOW than this!
You know, I really wish people would stop calling this “Obamacare.” “Care” is a word with a decidedly positive connotation, and I hate to see it attached to Barack Obama.
It is a “government health care takeover,” and that is the nomenclature we should use.
If we must use the word “care,” we need to tell it like it is and call it “Mugabecare.” The entire system is patterned after Mugabe’s government health care takeover in Zimbabwe. And by the way, thanks to Mugabecare, there are virtually no hospitals left — and the average doctor makes what translates into 32 cents a month.
"... senior citizens, those with chronic illness, and the very young will be on the outside looking in. This council is another example of the people of this country being told by the government that it knows what is best for us.
The framework set up by the stimulus bill merely set the stage for the implementation found in the healthcare reform bill.
How can the government get doctors to participate in Obamacare thereby a) willingly destroying the doctor patient relationship, and b) betraying their Hippocratic Oath to provide treatments that they deem to be effective?
Simple – fear and intimidation.
A second board created by the stimulus bill called The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology “will determine treatment at the time and place of care”.
They are charged with deciding the course of treatment for the diagnosis given by the doctor. - Now it becomes obvious why there has been a big push towards the implementation of universal electronic medical record use. - It becomes a tool to completely control the physician and the patient. - Those physicians and hospitals that choose to practice individualized patient care in consultation with their patients will be punished..."
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[There are elderly people and many others out there that still don’t get it.]
Article, check out # 10, too.
Not quite what you asked for but still good..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FItL11kYWgU
Is this the vid where he predicts that 40% of doctors will quit if/when Zero-care starts?
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