ObamaCare’s latest whopper (Here come the Deathpanels)

NY Post ^ | Jan 1, 2014 | Betsy McCaughey

[Innovative]

In 2013, the American people learned what whoppers the key promises of ObamaCare turned out to be. But the biggest whopper about the Affordable Care Act is yet to be exposed: the tightening grip the federal government will have over your doctor — even if you’re paying with private insurance.

Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply.

Obama’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Donald Berwick, also insisted the federal government must step in between doctors and their patients to curb and redistribute the use of medical resources. Berwick said resources should be allocated based on “important subgroups.” These groups, rather than the individual patient in the doctor’s office, he said, should be the “unit of concern.”

[nascarnation]

Thanks. I knew some astute FReeper would have this!

[444Flyer]

bflr

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] Berwick said resources should be allocated based on “important subgroups.”

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Does that mean, like, "Negroes"?

[lentulusgracchus]

they don't realize they're "teaching" their own caretakers how to treat them in old age.....not going to be pretty.

Screw old age. They don't deserve to wait for it. Let's take care of it now.

[rfreedom4u]

Believe me my ears are on what she says as I agree with her and have supported her for a long time. If only the MSM would grow up and talk about what matters instead of trying to make her out to be a loon.

If I comment on what she says I’d pretty much just reiterate it so why bother? As for her attractiveness, I can only plead my weakness for beautiful women (and 99% of conservative women are beautiful).

[IIntense]

Such a nice compliment for conservative women! We both agree that Sarah Palin is in our corner. She tells it as she sees it and be damned to anyone who doesn't like it. Many Republicans in Congress need to grow a backbone. They to stop pussyfooting around the arrogant White House, Senate and Supreme Court.

[IIntense]

Correction: "They need to..."