WOW!!! First NBC and now TIME. It’s worst for the Democrats then anyone thought. The media is melting down.
All those independent liberal journalist are starting to look at their cancellation notices.
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey February 9, 2009
It's Bloomberg news but it tells you about the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.
Somehow the most basic law of economics escapes these people.
Or, alternatively, they think they are smart enough to overcome it. You’re more likely to overcome gravity, though, than the fact that
resources are limited and wants are unlimited,
and therefore there has to be some rationing mechanism.
Medicaid conveniently groups together the sick and elderly---as Obama's IPAB board of radical Boobamba worshippers sit in judgment.
TRANSLATION Here's Boobamba's Orwellian-speak---the progressive way of saying "Obamacare keeps costs down."
The infamous "Death Panels---are alive and well----but they're not called death panels......for obvious reasons.
The treacherous Obama euphemistically calls his death panel "I-PAB---- Individual Payment Advisory Board."
---the I-PAB decides what to pay and who to pay---thus rationing medical care to sick oldsters.
THE FORWARD PLAN Obamacare "allows" states to expand their Medicaid recipients pool. Washington now covers about 1/2 the cost of today's pre-Obamacare Medicaid enrollees.
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What is I-PAB? FReeper Jim Noble posted:
When you find out about IPAB, you will absolutely not believe it - but it’s real. It is a new type of government agency. You know how the EPA, the IRS, the FCC, etc. are the “fourth branch”?
IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board) is the first agency of the “fifth branch” of govt.
1) It will make all important health care decisions by authorizing payment or not.
2) It is not funded by Congress and cannot have its budget reviewed or changed.
3) Its membership cannot be changed by future Presidents,
4) It cannot be repealed by Congress, except for a six month window in 2017.
5) Its decisions are not subject to judicial review.
6) It is not authorized by the Constitution, and is therefore immune to Constitutional processes.
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Why is Obamacre herding seniors WITH ASSETS onto Medicaid---a program structured for the poor?
Can you say redistribution of wealth?
Herding the elderly with assets into Medicaid has ominous consequences intriguing to the left. B/c assets, perhaps a home owned free and clear, securities, annuities, investment property, can be seized to pay for govt treatment.
Thus intergenerational transfers of wealth (longtime progressive bugaboo)----are decimated.
All you have to do is understand how leftists think, and you know what they are going to do.
Death panels were as predictible as the sun rising in the East.
I think the Death Panels are not getting credit for their main purpose - bailing out SocSec and Medicare.
Every year sliced off the life expectancy is HUGE on the budget calculations.
When the millenials get queasy about grandma’s premature departure, the regime will start sending them some student loan forgiveness Groupons on their smartphones.
They’ve been gathering information for years through the “Community Preventive Services Task Force” set up by Bush.
http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/
and they already have their own guide that has been published for the health care community and social services, and the psychologists/psychiatrists.
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html
and an article on their new power under the health care laws:
http://www.aei.org/article/health/healthcare-reform/the-bleeding-edge-of-rationing/