The vote is in 30 minutes and last Saturday evening, language was inserted to begin taking over YOUR HEALTHCARE including second-guessing your doctors treatments!
Excerpt from Betsy McCaughey of Bloomberg: "One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...bwhzs
THERE IS ACTUALLY MORE MONEY BEING ALLOCATED IN THIS STIMULUS BILL TO THIS SOCIALIZED MEDICAL PLAN THAN ALL THREE BRANCHES OF OUR MILITARY...COMBINED!!
FROM ZERO to Socialized Medicine in 30 minutes?!?!
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Re: FROM ZERO to Socialized Medicine in 30 minutes?!?! (infinitiandbeyond)
I don't recall asking the Federal government to deem " what is appropriate treatment". I'll leave that up to my doctor. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Obama wanted this rushed through.
Things I don't like already:*Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council*
*Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time”*
*The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined*
Furthermore (according to this article) the whole thing seems like Daschel's idea.
Sorry, I have to...
Things I don't like already:*Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council*
*Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time”*
*The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined*
Furthermore (according to this article) the whole thing seems like Daschel's idea.
article wrote: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.”
Sorry, I have to...