Posted on 09/08/2009 5:55:51 AM PDT by listenhillary
(NaturalNews) The new $800 billion economic stimulus bill contains some striking new "Big Brother" health care language that should give pause to all freedom-loving Americans. For starters, the bill requires the electronic tracking of the medical records of all Americans. All your private medical data will be stored in a government database, including your history of disease, pharmaceutical treatments, surgeries and even emergency room visits.
How would you like the government knowing all the details about your drug rehab? Or alcoholism treatments? Abortion? Sexually-transmitted disease diagnosis? Pregnancy status? Blood test results?
But it gets even more interesting than that: Under the new provisions found in the bill, all U.S. doctors will now be stripped of autonomy and forced to follow the medical treatment guidelines dictated by the government.
This news should rock the medical world (once they truly understand it). It means doctors can no longer make their own decisions about patients' needs or treatment protocols. From now on, all health care decisions will be centrally planned by a dictatorial, Big Brother health care authority in the federal government.
How to turn doctors into sheeple As Bloomberg.com reports (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?...), Tom Daschle was one of the architects of this plan, and he says that doctors "have to learn to operate less like solo practitioners."
Any doctor that deviates from that plan would be penalized by the government. That means, for example, that a local doctor who knows the patient and his family, and who is aware of specific local circumstances affecting that patient will no longer be able to apply any of that knowledge in treating the patient. All treatments will be dictated from the government, obliterating the whole point of allowing doctors to operate with some degree of autonomy in the first place.
Effectively, this bill transforms the entire U.S. medical profession into nothing more than pill-pushing puppets. It wipes out the intelligence of a local doctor and replaces it with the stupidity of Big Government.
If the government says all expectant mothers must be screened for depression and put on antidepressant drugs, then all the doctors have to play along and do that if they don't want to be fined or have their medical licenses taken away. If the government says nutritional supplements are dangerous and cannot be recommended to patients, then all doctors must remain silent and avoid telling patients the truth about helpful nutritional supplements. Whatever the government dictates must now be mirrored by all practicing doctors.
And don't forget: The U.S. government is largely controlled by the pharmaceutical companies, and that means these health care dictates are almost certain to emphasize pharmaceutical treatments, disease "screening" and disease mongering provisions designed to sell more drugs. You can count on there being increased requirements for vaccinations (HPV vaccines, too) and mental health screenings (psychiatric drugs, anyone?).
Communism is alive and well in America's health care system Americans asked for health care, but what they got was Health Communism. There is absolutely no reason to believe that a centrally-controlled government body has any ability to make good health care decisions for individual patients across America. There is also no reason to believe the U.S. government will safeguard patient medical data or even respect the privacy of patients. This is the same government, after all, that has been caught routinely spying on its own citizens by tapping phone lines, emails, faxes and internet traffic.
Bloomberg is on the forbidden list.
Betsy McCaughey at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
“Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay.
A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.” “
my guess is that the Dr.s will ignore this
Ignore what? The information? They did. The original date on the article is Feb, 2009.
Or ignore government mandates? Can't do that unless they want fines and/or a yanked license.
re: Slipped Into Economic Stimulus Bill
And thereby hangs the tale! Who knows what else was ‘slipped’ into that bill and will be biting us in the butt over the next months and years.
Unless and until we find a way to reign in Congress this sort of thing will be the downfall of our country.
I would like a rule against unrelated amendments and riders in legislation. It would be a "truth in packaging" act for Congress. It would mean that bills would be shorter and more straightforward. You would be able to tell what they were about from their title and introductory paragraphs.
Unfortunately, the likelihood of this happening approximates the probability of my winning Power Ball next week. But, I'd give my vote to anyone who would push it as a big reform issue.
I am so totally shocked. Next thing you’ll be telling me is that America is no longer a free country or something.
re: I’d give my vote to anyone who would push it as a big reform issue
Time was that would have done the trick. In today’s world any similarity between the promises and stands a candidate takes on the campaign trail and the actual actions taken once in office are purely coincidental.
I more convinced than ever that the only hope for America is a total meltdown. The question is whether or not we will be able to recover from it. Bit by bit we’re losing our ability to pick up the pieces from such an event. Sadly the people who are guiding us today would prefer to see that total meltdown as a means of leveling the playing field by toppling the people on top. In the America of yesterday leveling the playing field meant bringing in fill dirt and filling in the low spots. Today it means scraping off the top layer and using it to fill in the low spots.
Our way of life is under stress from every direction and at every level. And I see absolutely nothing being done to address any of the sources of the stress. Quite the contrary, additional stress is being added daily as a means of cover for those who hate our way of life and want to see it brought down.
Wait until they start refusing to pay a claim unless it is submitted electronically. Most of the EMR systems send BOTH a copy of the actual office notes WITH a bill to the insurer.
I would also bet that the guidelines have age adjusted treatment formulas that would give us the same result as the death panels but without the end of life counseling.
If this passes and Grandma is now being denied a pacemaker or hip replacement all hell will break loose.
The stimulus bill has passed. This stuff was part of the stimulus bill.
Relying on electronic records without paper back ups. EMP attack, everyone has no electronic identity (or money).
Maybe that’s not a bad thing in some ways.
people think its easy getting patients moved to nursing homes or rehabs....there is so much paper BS that must be "doctored" just right to make a patient eligible to be admitted to those places...
its all BS already folks....and its going to get worse...
and if the Doc doesn't follow the script?....he and the hospital will not get paid....
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