{"id":1461,"date":"2009-02-10T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:34:33","slug":"stimulus-bills-health-care-provisions-hazardous-to-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/stimulus-bills-health-care-provisions-hazardous-to-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus Bill’s Healthcare Provisions Hazardous to Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buried in amongst all the questionable spending and policy provision of the democrats Stimulus plan is what amounts to a socialized medicine Trojan Horse.<\/p>\n

The bill calls for, among other things, the creation of a new government bureaucracy, called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. The goal of the new bureaucracy\u00a0 is to reduce costs by monitoring treatments and to \u201cguide\u201d your doctor is doing what the federal government deems\u00a0appropriate and\u00a0cost effective.<\/p>\n

Betsy McCaughey goes over the bill’s healthcare provisions<\/a> with a fine-tooth comb in Bloomberg.com Op Ed:<\/p>\n

Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama\u2019s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.<\/p>\n

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.<\/p>\n

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s health rules will affect \u201cevery individual in the United States\u201d (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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cguide\u201d your doctor\u2019s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, \u201cCritical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.\u201d According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and \u201clearn to operate less like solo practitioners.\u201d Read the rest…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a related note Nadeem Esmail examines the problems with socialized medicine<\/a> in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n

President Obama and Congressional Democrats are inching the U.S. toward government-run health insurance. Last week’s expansion of Schip — the State Children’s Health Insurance Program — is a first step. Before proceeding further, here’s a suggestion: Look at Canada’s experience.<\/p>\n

Health-care resources are not unlimited in any country, even rich ones like Canada and the U.S., and must be rationed either by price or time. When individuals bear no direct responsibility for paying for their care, as in Canada, that care is rationed by waiting.<\/p>\n

Canadians often wait months or even years for necessary care. For some, the status quo has become so dire that they have turned to the courts for recourse. Several cases currently before provincial courts provide studies in what Americans could expect from government-run health insurance.<\/p>\n

In Ontario, Lindsay McCreith was suffering from headaches and seizures yet faced a four and a half month wait for an MRI scan in January of 2006. Deciding that the wait was untenable, Mr. McCreith did what a lot of Canadians do: He went south, and paid for an MRI scan across the border in Buffalo. The MRI revealed a malignant brain tumor.<\/p>\n

Ontario’s government system still refused to provide timely treatment, offering instead a months-long wait for surgery. In the end, Mr. McCreith returned to Buffalo and paid for surgery that may have saved his life. He’s challenging Ontario’s government-run monopoly health-insurance system, claiming it violates the right to life and security of the person guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Read the rest…<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not enough that these idiots our mortgaging our future and saddling our children with debts they can’t replay… They’re trying to destroy our healthcare system, which while it may not be perfect is a hell of a lot better than the socialized, government run system they seem to be pushing us toward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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