Fed gov is throwing tons of money into primary care, preventative medicine. This is the part that rules until around 2016, when, yes the states will then start bearing the burden. The problem with this (from source) is that patients will be diagnosed earlier. All good, you say? Well, it's all good until the gov decides one is too old for continuing care. That's when the "end of life" counseling begins.
A co-worker and I (we're both old, older than 55, and I'm a breast cancer survivor, for now) have decided that if the gov says we need end of life counseling to die, we will refuse the counseling. I mean, if we don't get the gov's ok to die, we don't die, right? Also, we're wondering if we die sooner than the gov says we should, can we transfer our end of life counseling (that we didn't use) to anyone else? sort of pay it forward from beyond?
Sorry for the lack of seriousness...but do pay attention to the first paragraph. By having a visit-by-visit record of our health, the gov will be very happy to "call it" and end our care.
Corrolary of Murphy’s Law: “A Smith & Wesson beats a full house.” That end-of-life counseling is going to mean a whole lot of people dying, and they won’t all be patients.
IF SECESSION NOT BE, THEN REVOLUTION MUST BE.