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To: Michael Eden
Having read the bill I do not see the rationing mentioned in the article. I do not see any cost benefit indications.

What I do see is the information groundwork being laid for nationalized health care. By establishing a nationwide standard medical information system nationalized health care can be achieved.

Then the abortion and euthanasia programs will be implemented. However, by saying something that is not there, the poser loses credibility.
I don't deny they want it.
I don't deny it's coming.
It just isn't here in the bill. IF you call everyone and say they are rationing health care you will be dismissed as an alarmist. Instead call and object to the centralizing of the medical information system in the name of efficiency. It is a weapon to be used later on the weak and the helpless.

18 posted on 02/10/2009 10:49:14 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: IrishCatholic

You didn’t read very well, then. It specifically mentions that the gov will decide who gets treatment based on age tables and life expectancy of certain diseases. This will not just ration health care to the elderly but to anyone who has a severe medical problem that the gov decides shouldn’t be treated. The bill doesn’t have to actually say rationing in order to achieve that goal.


22 posted on 02/10/2009 11:05:07 AM PST by calex59
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To: IrishCatholic

I noted that calex59 responded to you.

“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).”

That’s page 464 of the pdf version link.

If you are looking for the keyword “rationing” you need to realize that liberals are great at creating language that masks their true intent.


23 posted on 02/10/2009 11:20:23 AM PST by Michael Eden
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