Posted on 02/11/2009 8:12:36 AM PST by EagleUSA
People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, we can predict both the strategy and substance of the new administration's health-care reform.
The prognosis is not good for patients, physicians or taxpayers. If Mr. Daschle meant what he wrote in his book "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis," Americans can expect a quick, hard push to build more federal bureaucracy, impose price controls, restrict medicines and technology, boost taxes, mandate the purchase of health insurance, and expand government health care.
In his book, Mr. Daschle proposes a National Health Board to regulate the way health care is provided. This board would have vast powers in regulating the massive federal health-care system -- a system that includes Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. Under Mr. Obama, it is likely that that system will be expanded and that new government insurance for the nonelderly, nonpoor will be created.
Given the opportunity, Mr. Daschle would likely charge the board with determining which treatments and drugs are cost effective and therefore permissible to use for patients covered by the government. And because the government is such a big player in the health-care market (46% of health-care spending comes from the government), the board would effectively set parameters for private insurers.
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FINALLY...a mainstream outlet is getting this out....
As I asked on another health care thread, where is the AMA’s powerful lobby on this? The silence is deafening. And when Obama signs this into law on Presidents’ Day it is too late.
This was published December 30, 2008
It is rationed now. by price.
This is an abomination, and must be stopped.
PS Too bad we can’t subject Obama voters only to this plan and leave the rest of us alone. They deserve it. We don’t.
Only problem.....Dascle isn’t the health secretary as the article claims.
As much as I have concerns about socialized medicine, that beginning basically taints the entire rest of the piece.
I did NOT realize that.....and isn’t THAT interesting....it’s been ignored for THAT long!
It’s my understanding that in Tommy’s Tome, he also suggested quietly sneaking it into a large spending Bill to get it passed.
EVERYTHING in (a free) life is “rationed now by price.”
Tommy may not be the figurehead in this administration, but it is obvious that his ideas will be adopted and accepted by whomever is picked to replace him.
I like to ration his healthcare and see how he likes it.
bump for later
Doctors, nurses & healthcare professionals, have not figured out that their PAY WILL BE RATIONED TOO!
Once they do, it will be too late. No more RICH DOCTORS! They will be paid thru government programs, just like they are now thru medicare!!!
It appears to be too late. This is going to pass in Porkulus.
My point exactly. By the time this is rushed to signature into law, it will be too late to wake up.
They messed up the system on purpose simply so they could impose this “fix” upon it. That’s the truly sickening thing.
Who was the dummy that hired a foreigner to run the country?
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