February 09, 2009
Stimulating Socialism
There is no longer any reason to wonder why The One and the rest of hos comrades are in such a hurry to pass their government expansion bill. They are hoping they can get it through before their subjects can actually find out what it contains.
I'm sure they would rather no one had noticed this:
We can certainly be glad that Daschle was too much of a tax cheat to be confirmed.
So if this bill passes, the FCCCER (I recommend it be pronunced phoenetically) will be deciding who gets to live and who gets to die. This seems to be in direct contravention of:
As I'm typing this I got an alert that the government expansion bill has passed it's first procedural vote
There is nothing really left to say or do.
If you want to know what your healthcare future looks like, keep reading.
Here's the PDF of the bill if you want to check through the page numbers referenced in the quotes.
It's starting to look like time to pick a harbor and stock up on tea.
I'm sure they would rather no one had noticed this:
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. 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. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.
New Penalties
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” (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
But the bill goes further. 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. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.
New Penalties
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” (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
We can certainly be glad that Daschle was too much of a tax cheat to be confirmed.
So if this bill passes, the FCCCER (I recommend it be pronunced phoenetically) will be deciding who gets to live and who gets to die. This seems to be in direct contravention of:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I guess this idea is supposed to help the economy, though I'm not sure how. It should help with the looming Social Security and Medicare crises. If all the old people are dead because FCCCER denied them treatment then there will be plenty of money to pay benefits to those who haven't gotten their "hopeless diagnosis" and been told to get on the ice floe and die.As I'm typing this I got an alert that the government expansion bill has passed it's first procedural vote
With the help of Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, the Democrats locked in the votes needed to end debate on the bill.
The final vote was 61 in favor, 36 opposed.
The bill is expected to survive a full vote in the Senate on Tuesday, setting up a battle with the House as the two chambers try to iron out differences between their versions of the bill.
Obama wants both chambers to come to an agreement so he can have the bill on his desk by Presidents Day, which is next Monday.
The final vote was 61 in favor, 36 opposed.
The bill is expected to survive a full vote in the Senate on Tuesday, setting up a battle with the House as the two chambers try to iron out differences between their versions of the bill.
Obama wants both chambers to come to an agreement so he can have the bill on his desk by Presidents Day, which is next Monday.
There is nothing really left to say or do.
If you want to know what your healthcare future looks like, keep reading.
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 (90-92, 174-177, 181).
Here's the PDF of the bill if you want to check through the page numbers referenced in the quotes.
It's starting to look like time to pick a harbor and stock up on tea.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 06:49 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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If you think about it, the entire scam which has been pulled off was a covert act intended to hide most of the items hidden within the huge stack of paper. Nobody in their right mind would vote for the items had they been offered up individually on their merit; but by including them in the Stimulus Package, they drop well below the radar and by the time the public figures out what was passed the world we know won't exist.
Posted by: T F Stern at February 10, 2009 03:56 PM (Ruh11)
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