Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Stimulus = Sneakiness

The so-called economic "stimulus" bill being rammed down the American people's throat by a corrupt Democrat congress and president has a nice little sneaky, back door beginning of socialized medicine. And it is on the backs of senior citizens.
In this piece by Betsy McCaughey at Bloomberg News, she alerts the American people to some provisions that lead to a rationing of health care based on-you guessed it-cost effectiveness.
What the provisions do is essentially put the prescriptions of one former senator and tax cheat Tom Daschle in practice.
One of the creations that will take place is the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. And guess what this new federal government czar will do? Why he will make sure that doctors do treatments that the federal government deem appropriate and "cost effective". And, according to Tax Cheat Tom, doctors would have to give up some autonomy and learn not to operate as solo practitioners.
Well, is this not what the advocates of socialized medicine have blamed on the insurance companies all these years? That the insurance companies make the kind of life-and-death decisions based on "cost effectiveness"?
The reality is that the Democrats want to use the delivery of health care the same way that they use everything else. To pay off a special interest group.
But, by sneaking in this socialized medicine plan, maybe, just maybe they have gone too far.
Maybe it is time for the senate and the house members to actually read the stimulus and get a clue that this is not a time to back door and or front-load socialism.
It is time to get the economy back on track.
This is not going to do anything but possibly take the American people on a point of no return. And the end of non-government health care delivery as we know it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dang. Gotta give Obama credit: It's pretty darn smart to initiate cost control measures BEFORE you socialize medicine.

Let's say for the sake of argument that an economic "stimulus" package might have some provisions that could actually provide some economic stimulus. Are there ANY provisions in that bill that could, possibly, have SOME positive effect on the economy?

Or is it ALL just bigger government? That's all I seem to read about, government grabs for power.