Posted on 10/08/2007 10:19:50 AM PDT by Jean S
Good! Because the single childless individual who is sick of loosing their freedom is the greatest threat to the Control Freak Powers that Be.
Run, do not walk, RUN from anything, and I seriously mean ANYTHING, that has any connection with the RWJ Foundation.
They want to know if you wack your kid on the keister once in awhile (which many younger kids need occasionaly)
I suspect we’ll all wind up getting together to pull these guys non-profit status (they are a 501C3 IRS designation) that allows them to hoard cash outside the tax system...cash that is used AGAINST Americans.
My daughter’s pediatrician waited until I was out of ear shot and whispered to my daughter that when the time comes and she wanted birth control pills that she’d write a prescription for it.
My daughter told me about this 3 hours later because she knew I would probably probably make a u-turn and go back and assault the physician. Of course I filed a complaint and we never went back to her.
The previous pediatrician told my daughter (who had asthma) that cigarettes were bad for her asthma but marijuana probably wasn’t bad for it.
The solution: LEAVE MASSACHUSETTS
The dems are talking about socialized medecine, aren’t they? Look what you get!
Ignore legal barriers? Is that, well . . . legal?
With all the worries that physicians have about lawsuits, it would seem unwise for them to "ignore legal barriers."
(That said, I can imagine a state granting immunity to doctors who ask such intrusive questions while penalizing those who do not. It is time to put a stop to this.)
His 7-year-old provided a great answer. That gives me an idea . . . .
Medical Imperialism. What’s new?
I served on the Board of Directors of an organization with a 501C3 status that was (and contiues to be) in direct opposition to anything supported by RWJF. That was not and is not the goal of the organization, but it just so happens that every nanny state iniative that we opposed has some connection to RWJF and so it looks like it.
The difference in our organizations is that we, unlike RWJF, were scrupulous in what we said, did, and how we reported our income to the IRS.
My 5-year-old told our pediatrician that he’s a Goa’uld, and his mother ship will land in Lake Park as soon as he sends the signal from the clock tower. Then he read all the warning labels in the room, told her that “stethoscope” had Greek roots, and sang the “Gilligan’s Island” theme.
She just rolled her eyes and reminded me to give him whole milk and a protein supplement!
These inquisitions, along with the suggestion that doctors ignore “legal barriers and deference to parental involvement,” are encouraged by the AAP but not required. That Massachusetts has embraced the practice is, sadly, no surprise but I'll hang on to my belief that pediatricians in other, more sensible parts of the country will choose not to put themselves at risk of lawsuit.
In any case, it's alarming that such guidelines exist.
BTTT
Actually, under HIPAA the ONLY entity that physicians can give medical records to without scads of paperwork IS the government (for cost control and quality purposes, of course).
HIPAA is 100 or so pages of the Clinton Health Security Act that managed to make it into law.
Oh really? And how many "thousands" of kids injured by their parents' "improperly-stored" guns would that be?
What a crock. The vast bulk of kids injured by firearms are gang-bangers who own illegal guns and it sure as hell isn't "thousands." I'd sure like to know the name of the creep at the AAP who cooked up this garbage.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were a total of only 37,000 children who suffered violent deaths between 1976 and 1994, or a little over a thousand per year. I'd hazard that it's a small fraction that were killed with firearms at all, much less by their parents' guns.
Agreed. I question whether I want to bring children into a society where it is drilled into them that their first allegiance is to the State, not their family. Increasingly, it seems that parents have been reduced to mere caretakers for the State, who can be yanked from the job at the whim of the employer.
Like taxes, like all socialist panaceas, at bottom they are fantasies of absolute power.You can't raise the price for legitimacy - tax rates - without reducing legitimacy, causing people either to work less or to work off the books. And you can't intrude into privacy via the children without making people less likely to decide to have kids.
Of course that fact doesn't register with people who brought us the Social Security Trust "Fund" which is actually an IOU the government wrote, and continues to write, to itself. When it comes time to actually redeem that "I owe myself," it will be only too obvious that that piece of paper is not an asset which will be of any use to our grandchildren when they have to pay our Social Security. And grandchildren that we do not have certainly won't help either.
Many doctor’s questionnaires I had to take recently, and one health survey for work, ask if you own a firearm and how many.
I usually say “Not applicable”, but had one doctor really push it.
Sounds like something my parents said I told my doc one time. Only I was really on shore duty from Galactica or something.
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