[Cincinatus' Wife]

How long before having only one child is dictated?

Everything will be tied to our health and necessary for the well being of the planet.

With Obamacare and EPA dictates (they have been given complete control over their actions by the Supreme Court) they will know everything about you and you will have to comply.

[clearcarbon]

"New Md. health care delivery system will prioritize wellness"

By euthanizing the unwell?

[Gaffer]

We have built an electronic platform for medical records, which now connects hospitals across our state and serves as a common system for alerting doctors when their patients are in the emergency room, querying prescription databases to identify people abusing pain medications and generating maps of preventable disease and costs.

An electronic platform for behavioral control, problem patient identification, 'whale' patient identification (and the corresponding resource-drain patients), prescriptions linked directly to BATFE and NICS, and cost data that will enable death panels to make a more accurate and equitable death verdict.

Yep, pretty much sums it up.

[spokeshave]

We have built an electronic platform for medical records, which now connects hospitals across our state

If this is true...then they should have no problem expanding coverage across the state....instead of the severely limited network coverage of hospitals and doctors available through obamacare at present.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...the state will set global budgets and other alternative approaches to payment that reward clinical systems of care for providing improved outcomes at lower costs.

Doctor: "Well, Mr. or Ms. name, we've made a decision to not treat you in order to keep our global budget in check and keep our costs lower! Sorry, we can't help you!"

[iontheball]

Just remember when socialist speak, the exact opposite of what they say is truth. Marylanders should be very concerned.

[Lionheartusa1]

The Balt. Sun is the Bagdad Bob daily publication for Maryland . It’s all an illusion of an ideal liberal world which will never ever exist .

[Elsie]

New Md. health care delivery system will prioritize wellness ...

Patient: Cough - cough

 

Receptionist: Hello; what can the United States Health and Wellbeing Service do for you?

 

Patient:  I have this bad cough.

 

Receptionist:  I can see that; what can the United States Health and Wellbeing Service do for you?

 

Patient:  I need some medicine to cure it.

 

Receptionist:  That might be true; what can the United States Health and Wellbeing Service do for you?

 

Patient:  I need to see the Doctor.

 

Receptionist:  That might be true; but really you just WANT to see the Doctor.

 

Patient:  No; I really need to see him about this cough.  It's getting worse.

 

Receptionist:  If you insist.  Sit down with this pad of forms and fill in the data.

 

Patient:  OOf!  that is HEAVY!  I thought the United States Health and Wellbeing Service got rid of paper LONG ago?

 

Receptionist:  We did; but the HatefulConservatives kept complaining that patients identities were constantly being stolen and they wanted to starve children by making us go back to paper files again.

 

Patient:  I see.

 

Receptionist:  Mumble: I'll bet you do... 

 

a few moments later...

 

Patient:  Miss;

 

Receptionist:  That's MS; if you please!

 

Patient:  Ok; MS; the text on the page is AWFULLY small and my bleary eyes cannot make out a lot of it.

 

Receptionist:  (heavy sigh) OK; what can the United States Health and Wellbeing Service do for you?

 

Patient:  Could someone HELP me with this?

 

Receptionist:  LOOK!  I get paid to ask you "What can the United States Health and Wellbeing Service do for you?" NOT baby sit your problems!  You should have brought in a caregiver if you needed help!!

 

Patient:  But I didn't know...

 

Receptionist:  OK, ok, ok... I'll read them to you; but do NOT let anyone else in the waiting room know.

 

Patient:  All right.

 

Receptionist:  1. Have you followed the United States Health and Wellbeing Service Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations?

 

Patient:  I think so.

 

Receptionist:  Yes or No!

 

Patient:  Uh; yes.

 

Receptionist:  2. HAve you exercized the correct hours each day, as prescribed by the United States Health and Wellbeing Service Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations?

 

Patient:  Yes.

 

Receptionist:  3. have you eaten the correct amount of fruit, as prescribed by  the United States Health and Wellbeing Service Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations?

 

Patient:  Yes.

 

Receptionist:  4. Have you drunk the correct fluids, as prescribed by  the United States Health and Wellbeing Service Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations?

 

Patient:  Yes.

 

Receptionist:  5. Have you had sex, in the authorized positions, as prescribed by  the United States Health and Wellbeing Service Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations?

 

Patient:  WHAT???

 

Receptionist:  5. Have you had sex, in the ...

 

Patient:  I HEARD THAT!!! What!!??!!

 

Receptionist:  Sigh; did you NOT receive the update from the United States Health and Wellbeing Service that amended the Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations - Rev 13.69?

 

Patient:  uh; I only have a copy that is Rev 13.68...

 

Receptionist:  Ah... there's your problem.   Since you've NOT followed the Guideline for Good Health rules and regulations COMPLETELY; it is evident that you have made yourSELF sick; and we at the United States Health and Wellbeing Service only treat those who have gotten sick from FOLLOWING the rules.

 

Patient:  But...

 

Receptionist:  Next!!!

 

[RFEngineer]

“and other alternative approaches to payment that reward clinical systems of care for providing improved outcomes at lower costs. “

So basically, there is more money to be made treating healthy people than trying to treat those who are the most sick.

[VeniVidiVici]

Death panels come to life

[GeronL]

We will limit the growth in hospital spending per capita, including inpatient and outpatient care, to the rate of growth in the state's economy.

and if the economy crashes as a million move in, you get aspirins for cancer?

[grania]

This is what I've said all along. Control of medical care will shift to an emphasis on public health, not individual situations. Flu shots, vaccinations, diabetes maintenance, mental health checks....no problem. What's not going to work out so well is when someone gets a disease out of the norm.

There was something in the local news a few weeks ago about how some doctors are trying out having annual physicals be group events....a group of people go through testings, screenings, discussions about health together, like a classroom. Yuck!

[Jim Noble]

New Md. health care delivery system will prioritize wellness

Translation: Don't get sick.