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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cheap v on 07.31.2009
Great article . Will definitely apply it to my blog