Posted on 09/02/2010 11:11:07 AM PDT by granite
Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish care- guidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in charge of your health care decisions.
This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world.
In addition to also badly exacerbating the current doctor shortage, the law will bring major cost increases, rising insurance premiums, higher taxes, a decline in new medical techniques, a fall-off in the development of miracle drugs as well as rationing by government panels and bureaucrats like passionate rationing advocate Donald Berwick forcing delays of months or sometimes years for hospitalization or surgery. Finally, studies show the legislation will adversely affect the elderly, the poor and rural residents.
Despite countless protests by doctors and overwhelming public opposition -- up to 60% of Americans opposed this bill -- the current party in control of Congress pushed this bill through with legal bribes and Chicago- style threats and is determined now to resist any “repeal and replace” efforts.
This doctor’s office is non-partisan -- always has been, always will be. But the fact is that every Republican voted against this bad bill while the Democratic Party leadership and the White House completely dismissed the will of the people in ruthlessly pushing through this legislation.
In the face of voter anger some Democratic candidates are now trying to make a cosmetic retreat, calling for minor modifications or pretending they are opposed to government-run medicine. Once the election is over, however, they will vote with their party bosses against repealing this bill. Please remember when you vote this November that unless the Democratic party receives a strong negative message about this power grab our health care system will never be fixed and the doctor patient relationship will be ruined forever. I will be glad to discuss this with you at the end of our consultation.
I already e mailed my son who is an MD, and directed him to Dr. Scherz’s website (Docs4patients) so he can get the letter downloaded and into his waiting room
Thanks! I heard about this on Prager’s show, and am going to print out copies to use and pass out.
—wonderful letter.
I wish that every American in the United States of America could see it and read it.
I wish that every doctor would send it to all his patients using e-mail, I wish that every conservative would send it to every one they know in their address book.
How much you wanna bet that the Obama administration will take legal action against doctors who display this letter.
If I were shopping for a physician (are we still allowed to do so in this country?), seeing this letter scotch taped to the wall in his lobby would bear more weight in my choice than ANY framed PhD from some top 10 medical school hanging on the wall behind his desk.
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