So, there will be compulsory psychiatric screening for 300 million people, and everyone who doesn't measure up will be medicated forcibly? And this is to benefit drug companies that are financially friendly to President Bush?
Is that what you're saying? Is that what then Governor Bush did in Texas?
PS, I'm not reading the link right now. I want to know what YOU are saying. I'll read it later.
It looks like that's the picture. I don't know how much the "benefit the drug companies" plays into it (I'm only part way into the documentation), but so far, I can tell you that it does lay the groundwork for everyone being screened.
I can easily forsee a day in the near future in which our health insurers will mandate "routine screening" as a condition of continued coverage -- and, and automatic "referral" for anyone "irrational" enough to refuse such a reasonable requirement, at the cost of losing their coverage.
Think that's a stretch? Try standing up for your legal rights to avoid "participating" in the HIPAA travesty and see what kind of crap you get. Hell, try refusing to hand over your SSN to a medi-man whose desk troll insists that "our computer needs it."
I have literally had to walk out of one office when they flat out refused to see me when I flat out refused to give them my SSN.
So far, all I've got is funny looks when I refuse to comply with HIPAA. It probably doesn't hurt that I've done my homework and march in with some forms of my own that give them the releases they need to speak with my wife and anyone I need to have records shared with.
We are headed toward something ugly in this country. And there is a frighteneng mass of humanity -- probably a critical mass -- who are all too glad to go with the flow, because "Bush is our Friend", and, "It can't happen here!"
Screw Car 54. George Santayana, where are you?
That's not what I'm saying. What I said was, in essence, that conservatives seem to have this head-in-the-sand blindness when it comes to these kinds of all-encompassing federal programs. My point was that another example already existed of a federal program that very few conservatives back in 1998-2000 thought was going to fly.
I'm still reading about the details of No Loony Left Behind. The details are important, but my major concern was that people here reading about this *didn't want to believe it at first.* That to me is *why* these incredible boondoggles keep getting imposed on us - a supposedly "conservative" administration floats them, and Republicans in Congress vote for them. Meanwhile, the conservative supporters of Bush, who are exhorted relentlessly to support the administration no matter what, once again get blindsided by realpolitik.