Health Care Harmed by Stimulus Bill and the Obama Agenda

A concerned patient passed the following link Bloomberg.com: News concerning the hidden health care initiatives inside the stimulus bill. This post will remain in place for at least 2 days do to its importance.

As noted by the author, there are some very scary aspects of the provisions in this health care initiative.

Some of the concerns she points out are:

Page numbers correlate with the PDF version of H.R. 1 EH

• The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479).
  
• 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).
  
• 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 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).

Most of what is here is very similar to what Daschle has proposed in the past and has written about in his book. 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.

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Rationing of Health care is inevitable if this bill passes in its current form and euthanasia is right around the corner!

Americans cannot allow this bill to pass and everyone needs to contact their legislators and demand they put a hold on this harmful agenda.