Obama Gives Up, Nominates Tavenner To head CMS

President Obama said on Wednesday he plans to nominate Marilyn Tavenner as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to replace Dr. Donald Berwick, who has never won the support of Congress.

Obama sidestepped the traditional confirmation process in July 2010 to make a recess appointment of Berwick.

Tavenner, Berwick's principal deputy, was the Virginia secretary of health and human resources.

"Before entering government service, Ms. Tavenner spent nearly 35 years working with healthcare providers in significantly increasing levels of responsibility, including almost 20 years in nursing, 3 years as a hospital CEO and 10 years in various senior executive level positions for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)," the White House said in a statement.

Mark Levin November 22, 2011
http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=2340235&spid=32345

A neuro-surgeon specializing in strokes and blood clot treatments and corrections got through to Mark Levin on his radio show last night. He was attending a DC neuro/brain specialist insiders convention dealing with that aspect of Obamacare.

He said: “All patients wil be considered “units” and units over 70 will not be recipients of their speciality. Because the decision to operate will be taken out of the surgeon hands and given to a panel of actuaries.”

When you have a problem after the age of seventy, you need approval from the unit review panel, before the doctor may help you. At seventy you become a unit.

Here is a DIRECT link to that part of the show. (MAKE IT GO VIRAL)
http://www.therightscoop.com/shock-brain-surgeon-confirms-obamacare-rations-care-has-death-panels/

Well, there you have it. No more senior citizens, no more elderly. The old become “units.” To the rotten statist bastards who are going to implement Obamacare, people will cease to be described as human beings, they will be described as “units.” Maybe in time, disposable units.

First, they must dehumanize those whom they wish to destroy. Once the people get used to the idea, others can be added to the list.

Every Republican running for election should have an ad planned to be directed at the seniors informing them that if Obama gets re-elected, their status will change from senior citizen to being “units.”

The “ethicist” behind Obamacare believes medical resources should be concentrated on those between 14 and 40.

The most nefarious aspect that is happening in health care that no one mentions is the electronic medical record EMR. The government is financially forcing hospitals and physician offices to convert over to EMR or they will get fined or not reimbursed by Medicare.

This will allow the federal government access to your medical information. They will know every detail that has been documented between you and your physician. It will allow the government to determine if you get care based on their treatment algorithms. HIPPA means nothing to the federal government. They can access your chart for national security issues.

One of the primary developers of the software for EMR is a company called Epic. The software package cost to a hospital is close to 100 million and like all software packages will require expensive upgrades. The company is privately owned. The founder is a computer science prof from university of Wisconsin and she had help from the people at Harvard to help with development. Orwellian medicine.

IMHO....ObamaCare has yet to be fully read and comprehended by anybody. It may even require computer interpretation to fully draw all the threads together. I have been told it effectively terminates Medicare by 2015-2016-not explicitly-obviously-but by the aggregation and enactment of several thousand rules and regulations.

Ezekiel Emanual MD the former White House consultant and NIH science adviser to the White House on health care HIMSELF PUBLICALLY STATED his advocacy of the Complete Lives System -a process for assessing who is “worth” society’s advocacy.

http://facta-non-verba.blogspot.com/2009/08/ezekiel-emanuels-article-from-lancet.html

This what happens when governments are allowed to become involved in peoples’ lives and intimate decision-making. Some special few ultimately receive subsidized “special-care” -from the taxpayer-while those “unworthy” -except for their capacity to fund the “special-few”-are told to go pound sand.

In summary (and paraphrasing), Neurosurgeon was at a conference where they reviewed policies coming out of HHS. If you show up in an emergency room with a brain bleed (aneurism) or other such problem, are over 70, and on govt insurance, all they can do is offer “comfort” care.

IOW, the “unit” is not worth the expense of surgery. But an “ethics” panel [Sarah was right, says Levin, it IS a death panel] of administrators could decide to authorize the care. Surgeon pointed out his 9 years of additional training and that the administrators don’t know a thing about what he does.

He also pointed out that many of the tools they use have yet to be approved but they are allowed to use them under as a Humanitarian Use Device -

IOW, gee, that’s an interesting tool you have there, we’ll take a few years to run it through our bureaucracy and see if we’ll let you continue to use it. Doc said at least one HUD was yanked away from them.

Mark asked if the regs were public yet, doc said no. I’m not sure if the doc said the regs were in force or just proposed. Hopefully it’s the latter as a lot of this carp is backed off once the sunshine hits it.

It is very likely to make Social Security and Medicare viable it will be necessary to raise the retirement age above the 67 in current legislation. No doubt someone in government has already figured out the end game. Retire at 70 and be euthanized on your retirement date. After all you are no longer productive, you are consuming resources, and any assets you’ve accumulated during your lifetime can be much more fairly deployed by the state for the benefit of society.

For a socialist society, with a shrinking economic pie, the ultimate answer is to eliminate the number of citizens. The elderly and the unborn are the logical choices.

Mark Levin neurosurgeon caller: not yet released Obamacare plans - older folks called ‘unit s’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2811322/posts

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