Posted on 12/07/2009 2:42:47 AM PST by Scanian
What kind of "health-care reform" is this that could make me replace my regular checklist of preventive-care tests for a "don't-check list" of exams I won't be able to order?
Much of last week's Senate debate on health reform turned on a single screening exam, mammograms for women in their 40s. A government panel last month said the exams weren't cost effective, and critics quickly pointed to the recommendation as an example of the kind of rationing that would have teeth under ObamaCare.
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The issue is much bigger and fundamental than the specifics about what tests are payed for etc. I strongly believe that there is no replacement for a thinking physician at the bedside. The danger of government involvement in health care is that it diminishes this element of patient care and replaces it with ‘guidelines’ determined by bureaucrats who erroneously assume that patients can be best treated by following specific algorithms. It’s a very dangerous assumption.
This stupid plan is going to die of its own gross obesity.
Either the plan gets killed or the plan kills us.
I see a physician at a large chronic pain clinic on a regular basis. They’re all worried about what ObaminationCare will do their practice. I’m getting scheduled for outpatient surgery after the first of the year, one sure to be deemed “not cost effective.” Their office has gone so far as to ask patients to sign and send letters to our senators (for all the good it will do).
Oh, did I mention this office is in Michigan’s liberal mecca, Ann Arbor?
I am bothered because I never dreamed the American people would allow any government of ours to be doing this crap to us.
They are, and they are getting away with it. Such a sad thing.
later
The things you get when democrats are in power,nevr a good thing.
The recent mammography controversy is a perfect example of what we can expect under Obamacare. The panel of government “experts” who came up with the revised mammography “recommendations” did not have a single onocologist or specialist in breast cancer. The sole criteria used in making this revised screening recommendation was cost and ignored quality of life or lives saved.
Seeems to be kinda of one sided MEN need preventive screenings as well........DUH!
I.L., I doubt you’ve never seen a worse case of buyers’ remorse than what the American public is feeling right now.
Short of storming the Capitol and ripping the place apart, I think we’ve tried just about all we can do to convince the congresscreeps that they’re doing us dirty. So far they haven’t listened. So maybe extreme action will be forthcoming after all.
Remorse is a futile thing. Getting back is action.
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