Berwick's Orwellian Wellness Visit

american spectator ^ | 1/4/11 | Robert M. Goldberg

[Nachum]

As reported in this publication, Democrats have been quick to defend Donald Berwick's dead of night inclusion of advanced directive and end of life planning into what is called the Annual Wellness Visit (what most of us call a checkup). They claim it's purely voluntary and that Medicare already covers advanced directive discussions.

But the inclusion of the advanced directive and end of life planning is not voluntary, only the patient's discussion is. Doctors are required to bring it up year after year. What's more, noting that Medicare added the discussion of advance directives to the initial physical exam begs the question: why every year?

Indeed, the regulations dealing with "Medicare Coverage of Annual Wellness Visit Providing a Personalized Prevention Plan" goes out of its way to reject paying for other preventive evaluations because they are not "evidence-based" or lack standardized tools. This adherence to an evidence-based approach to coverage was used by Berwick to delay access to Provenge, the first vaccine for prostate cancer. And it is used to reject regular screening for hearing, depression, ability to successfully perform activities of daily living, fall risk, and home safety -- since none of those, according to Berwick's CMS, have enough current evidence.

[Nachum]

I think that these rules need apply to Dr. Berwick, his family, his friends, and the politicians who put him here- first. Them first, then anyone else.

[Nachum]

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Publish the names and addresses of the supporters of Death Panels. Encourage the public to correspond with them.

[gusopol3]

The dude and his wife are covered for life with a Cadillac policy, part of his goldenplatinum multi-million dollar parachute from his former employer, the non-profit institute he brought megaObamabucks to for all kinds of babbling.

[Twinkie]

Anything you see these socialists enact by hook or crook, you may be sure it’s just the toe in the door. When the Democrats get the kind of power they’ve had for the past six years; Baby, you ain’t seen nuthin’ to what the final outcome will be. (I think that if they’d had total power for the past twenty years, we’d be seeing mandated abortions in many cases. Of course, they’ve already got automatic abortions through their PR machine anyway.)

[Twinkie]

Anything you see these socialists enact by hook or crook, you may be sure it’s just the toe in the door. When the Democrats get the kind of power they’ve had for the past six years; Baby, you ain’t seen nuthin’ to what the final outcome will be. (I think that if they’d had total power for the past twenty years, we’d be seeing mandated abortions in many cases. Of course, they’ve already got automatic abortions through their PR machine anyway.)

[jiminycricket000]

"As reported in this publication, Democrats have been quick to defend Donald Berwick's dead of night inclusion of advanced directive and end of life planning into what is called the Annual Wellness Visit (what most of us call a checkup). They claim it's purely voluntary and that Medicare already covers advanced directive discussions. But the inclusion of the advanced directive and end of life planning is not voluntary, only the patient's discussion is. Doctors are required to bring it up year after year."

Orwellian, or Luciferian? These pigs in D.C. know that lots of unnecessary deaths of elderly patients helps to balance the budget for Medicare and Social Security. Dead people, eliminated by government cutbacks and heartless policies, don't cost the government anything, (except their blessing from God, without which the U.S. government will utterly fail).

Already we have even conservatives lamenting that the elderly should not recieve their SS checks after building our nation with their sweat, defending it with their blood and tears, and paying into the system all their lives. When irreligious humans feel it comes down to their own survival, they will kill and eat their own, the weakest going first, (just as we see with legalized abortion). Love says: "I sacrifice myself for you". Abortion says: "I sacrifice you for myself". That, in essense, is what we're witnessing with Obamacare and the so-called "end of life counseling". It will be the believing Christians remaining in America who will fight this atrocity, and it will be the atheists, humanists, secularists, homosexuals and various other base human beings who will defend it.

It's time for every God-fearing man, woman and child in America to step up and drive these corrupted politicians back to real jobs, and to vote in only those who love America, the Constitution, the people, and God. Otherwise, John Adams' dire warning will come to fruition soon and our nation will fail. He warned: "our constitution is made solely for a moral and religious people. It is wholely inadequate to the government of any other."

[Rich21IE]

It’s no secret that the elites that run this gov’t want a lot of “Americans” dead.

[Running On Empty]

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