A Forrest Gump look at health care reform

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 04/05/2010 | Dr. George Watson

[Patriot1259]

n the movie, Forrest Gump, Forrest (Tom Hanks) said, “Mama always said, ‘Stupid is as Stupid does.’” How could one better describe the “historic vote” of the House of Representative on March 21, 2010?

Here are my top ten examples:

1. A Speaker of the House who barged ahead with a costly, unpopular plan leading her lemmings over the cliff into the sea of red ink, which will drown all of us in incalculable debt.

2. The former “protector of the unborn” who caved in for a promise of an executive order from the most pro-abortion lawyer/President ever. I can imagine that the “high fives” reported by Robert Gibbs in the White House were accompanied by comments such as, “We got our man, Dupedpak, or Stupidpak, for a promise that isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”

3. The AMA for not listening to their state medical societies—the doctors who actually treat patients every day, but instead followed the lead of their business interests and high-level staff. Given the history of past legislation—for example, the failure to achieve portability in HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), what makes the AMA think they will get their “permanent SGR fix”? The sustainable growth rate (SGR) method means automatic fee cuts to doctors if Medicare spending increases more rapidly than considered acceptable. But perhaps they will get to keep their lucrative monopoly on producing procedure (CPT) codes for Medicare....

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[golfisnr1]

Her is Peter Johnson’s view on Fox & Freinds this AM:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590422,00.html

Good one!!!!