An excellent article in IBD this week bullet points the extra powers our legislators want to hand over to government control.
Among the powers given to governmental:
• Seniors must submit to “advance care planning consultation” (aka end-of-life discussions) every five years, or more often if there is “a significant change in the health condition of the individual, including diagnosis of a chronic, progressive, life-limiting disease, a life-threatening or terminal diagnosis or life-threatening injury” (Pages 425 and 429). Will these consultants advise seniors to hurry up and die because they are costing too much money?
• Government bureaucrats will conduct “Comparative Effectiveness Research” to decide the effectiveness of treatments and drugs. That is the exotic label for rationing and, as House Appropriations Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., admitted, drugs and treatments that are “found to be less effective and more expensive will no longer be prescribed” (Pages 502 and 520).
• Government bureaucrats (not the medical profession) shall determine national priorities for research (Page 505).
• Preference in awarding grants or contracts will be given to entities that have trained “the greatest percentage” of public-health workers in the government and that have trained large percentages of “under-represented minority groups” (Pages 909 and 910). Think Acorn!
If we need reform, this is NOT reform, but a slide towards socialism at its worst.
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Listen carefully:
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With the debate swirling in the USA about government “involvement” in health provisioning, let’s take  a look back to the case I wrote about on July 17.
Bad news is that my father, living in Canada, does not have a simple knee problem and requires a new knee.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported in 2002 how long long it took for a knee replacement in the US, compared to the province of Ontario in Canada. 3 weeks was the the US wait, 8-10 weeks was the wait in Canada.
My father’s wait will be 14 weeks.
Don’t be fooled by those who say that government interference in health care won’t result in rationing and therefore long waits.
OK: time to look at some real analysis and potential fixes to the real problems .. in future posts.
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David Ignatius writes in tomorrow’s Washington Post about the future of America.
The rehab economy will also be more collectivist, with a greater public role in health care (not to mention in our banks and auto companies) and a corresponding diminution in private laissez faire. Income distribution will be more egalitarian, with more protection for the poor and more constraints on the rich. Conservatives will say these changes are making America socialistic.
You betcha, it does!
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When I lived in Australia I had to visit the doctor a few times… at one point I had to get a prescription renewed. I was used to paying $120 a month for this prescription, which in Canada includes a $10 “Dispensing Fee” which is basically what the pharmacist charges to put the pills in the bottle and print the sheet off his computer. (I’ve gone to the dentist and received two tylenol-3 for 60 cents… plus the $10 dispensing fee… so $10.60
I picked up my prescription at the Australian pharmacy – keep in mind I was a student and had the most BASIC of healthcare. No private healthcare, simply public.
$7.
I had to stop and ask the pharmacist at the Australian pharmacy “Why $7″
He told me “Sorry Sir, we need to make a profit so we have to mark up the medication. Sorry it’s so expensive.”
I have no clue how the identical medication would cost 17 times the price in Canada… maybe the government interference.
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