Posted on 01/01/2014 3:40:53 PM PST by 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.”
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That is my point. So why cut back on healthcare with our fake money? It is all fake anyway.
I anticipate many a government burrocrat being hunted down
“We know what’s best for you & the collective”
I guess I’m more of a Dave Stockman type, wanting to apply the brakes and try for a panic stop rather than going over the cliff at full throttle.
But I understand your thinking. And the implosion has taken far longer to occur than I expected. Who knows how long Tim, Ben, and now Janet can run the table.
Rush Limbaugh has a good assessment on his site too:
The Obamacare Death Panels Have Arrived _- Nov 4, 2013
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/11/04/the_obamacare_death_panels_have_arrived
“A woman stood up — I’ve never forgotten this, and I never will — and asked the president of the United States if her 93-year-old mother could get a pacemaker because of her will to live, her spirit. Obama said, “Nah, we can’t calculate spirit and will to live into these kinds of decisions. At some point we’re all gonna have to realize that maybe the answer is give them a pain pill and forgo any more surgery and just ease them for the rest of their lives.”
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Obamacare’s Dr. Mengele.
I’d say the only thing is, those death panels aren’t going to be the kind before which you’ll be able to stand and make your case. The policy’s going to be written by committee, implemented by another committee and you’ll find out about the decision as a done deal. You can sue, I suppose. I don’t think it’s going to be any more fun suing the government and/or the insurance companies than it is now.
FRiend, I will say a prayer for you.
There will be health care rationing. The only question is who will do it? The government, the insurance companies, or the patient?
Six of one, half-dozen of the other.
Thanks very much! People at FR are awesome!
Yes, but when you cut back, you PRIORITIZE in your personal budget and it should be the same in the government budget.
The Federal government is still funding pornography as “art” and is wasting millions and billions of dollars — another example all the money we spend on providing “religion-appropriate” food and environment to the world’s worst terrorists in Guantanamo, etc., etc., the waste should be cut first, wouldn’t you agree?
” U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) today released a new oversight report, “Wastebook 2012” that highlights more than $18 billion in examples of some of the most egregious ways your taxpayer dollars were wasted in 2012. This report highlights 100 of the year’s countless unnecessary, duplicative and low-priority projects spread throughout the federal government.”
Look, have you noticed how we always have plenty of fake money to pay for studies of shrimp on treadmills, fancy government parties in at 5 star resorts complete with bags full of bling, bridges to nowhere, airports never used but named after some congresscritter, money for paying off palestinians and pakistanis, money for gigantic snoop facilities in Utah, lavish food stamp increases, welfare increases, fancy presidential vacations and parties, etc, you get my drift.
But by God, put a democrat or a RINO in power and they get fiscal responsibility when it comes to health care and military troops and wounded vets. By golly, we need to cut costs and worry about the deficit.
Whole thing is a scam. No need to cut health care. Just keep on blowing that fake money. What difference does it make?
I’m pretty sure the /s wasn’t needed in your post.
Would it not be interesting if the refused terminally ill decided to start a new career terrorist bomber aimed at those who handed down thier death penalty?
The government is running the show now. The insurance companies do their bidding and the people are kind of self rationing out of abject fear!
“I’d say the only thing is, those death panels aren’t going to be the kind before which you’ll be able to stand and make your case. The policy’s going to be written by committee, implemented by another committee and you’ll find out about the decision as a done deal.”
Exactly — an excellent point and very true.
It’s even worse than the British NHS, where at least you can appeal, but you won’t be able to do it under Obamacare.
This article addresses that also:
Yes, It Is Rationing — Dec. 4, 2013
http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2013/12/yes-it-is-rationing/#.UsS6Uk2A2Uk
“But Obamacare actually gives IPAB far more power to ration than if it was acting as judge and jury to individual patients. Broadly speaking, IPAB is given sweeping powers to recommend to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whether and how whole categories of treatments are to be reimbursed – and is required to use these powers to prevent overall health care spending from being allowed even to keep up with medical inflation. Thus, they can (in fact, it is their job to) limit reimbursement and ration care from thousands or millions of people at a time.
For example, IPAB might decide that a new, promising treatment for breast cancer is not “cost-effective,” given the board’s calculation of the number of lives it might save versus the cost to offer the treatment. HHS might then issue a “quality measure” binding on health care providers that does not authorize use of the treatment.”
Since this rolled out, I have held the belief that this would create a class of NTL’ers. Nothing to lose. When the government sentences someone to a premature death because of a death panel, medical care withheld, either to the patient or family of, I can easily see folks going postal upon those who represent the cause of their anguish
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