If this isn't enough to send you to Washington D.C. with pitchforks and torches, I don't know what will. Chills ran up my spine when I read the following from an article on
Bloomberg.com tonight;
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
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.
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).
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).
What does this mean for you? Let's let Tom
Daschle explain.
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.
More willing to accept DYING... did you hear that, you "let's nationalize health care" FREAKS? And we all know who he's talking about don't we? Your sweet little grandmother. Tom
Daschle and our new president want her to DIE to save the rest of us money.
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.
And don't forget those of you who are young but have been given a death sentence with cancer, let's say. They tell you, you have 6 to 8 months to live with chemo and 1 to 2 months without. Guess who's not getting chemo? Guess who has 7 less months with their children...that's right..YOU. Not horrified yet?
Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).
The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.
In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.
That's right lefties....your mother or father may be forced to GO BLIND in one eye EVEN THOUGH WE CAN STOP IT, because it's not COST EFFECTIVE. You wanted free health care...this is what you get. Here's my favorite part;
Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”
When
Daschle says this issue is "too important to be stalled by Senate protocol" what he really means is, it's too important to be DEFEATED BY YOU!!! They are going to ram this through in the
Porkulus package (which is supposed to be for economic recovery) without a sound! Without a debate and without your knowledge! Is this what we've come to? That we don't even get to debate the laws that our elected officials pass? What happened to the separation of powers? With the
Obamamaniacs running everything, they're just pushing through all kinds of baloney that we don't even get to debate!
This is an outrage. If Obama wants a health bill, he needs to write one separate from the stimulus bill that will get proper review and debate on the house floor and will be open to the public for OUR REVIEW considering WE PAY THE FLIPPING BILLS around here and I sure as @!#? do not want to be told I only need one eye to pursue my happiness! When are you going to wake up and see what is happening? They are going to take away our rights to thundering applause and YOU are letting it happen.
I can assure you, I've been on the phone. Have you?
