Posted on 12/14/2011 5:39:18 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Jonathan Cohn has yet another excellent example: Newt was an enthusiastic backer (with John Kerry!) of comparative effectiveness research - that is, having the government collect data about which medical treatments actually work. That was way back in 2008, but as Cohn points out, after it became part of ACA a few months later it immediately became evil socialist rationing, something that Gingrich can now get in trouble for with conservatives on the campaign trail.
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Why is it that every time I turn around, Gingrich finds himself on the side of bigger and bigger government?
Do you have a candidate that you post in favor of, or do you only exist to tear down? You are becoming a characterization.
Yeah. Santorum. I’d support Bachmann too. The media have proven they fear Perry, so I’d go that way too. All of them have certain things that stink, but none of them paint a full featured picture of big government like Mitt and Newt do.
the government collecting data on which medical treatments actually work.
The HORROR!!
ROFL
If you have these questions about Gingrich or Romney, you can always take a look at Perry, Bachmann or Santorum.
I can respect that and look forward to reading your negative attacks on Romney.
Guys. Somehow, I don't see this as the issue on which the election will turn. Collecting data about effectiveness of medical treatments is something the government does.
Currently science ~ real science ~ is talking about custom cures tailored to individual needs ~ particularly for cancer. The earlier idea was a sort of statistical averaging thing that would tell us which medical procedures worked best for just anybody ~ but without any concern for ethnic dissimilarities, and certainly not for individual differences.
I think most everybody who's real in medical research has ignored this as just more useless propaganda.
No doubt the Democrats still want to do it and spend vast sums building new offices for doctors who support them with campaign funds.
Medicare does seem destined to implode no matter what. Rationing, low reimbursement, regulation/compliance and medical records will drive providers out of Medicate. I personally hope that Congress does not pass the doctor fix this year; it’s a meaningless band aid solution. Allowing doctors to privately contract with Medicare patients would improve access for many seniors. The government middleman adds no value to healthcare.
“Collecting data about effectiveness of medical treatments is something the government does.”
And this is somehow a bad thing?
With Romney’s seeming implosion and the media’s seeming turn against him, you probably won’t see anymore. Romney just isn’t the big government republican threat he was a few weeks ago. Newt is that threat now.
But you can see what I’ve done in the past, and it isn’t pretty. I’d bet you will learn things about Romney’s record you did not know from seeing what I have posted.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2812757/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2767097/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2785753/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2782662/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2808495/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801383/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2791309/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2800631/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2788029/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2772589/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2787993/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2786946/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768251/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2785460/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2812712/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2791616/posts
Satisfied?
I have. And I’m not seeing anything near as bad for those three as I have found for Mitt and Newt.
I am in the same position as Mark Levin. I’ll be rooting for Santorum. Bachmann as a close second.
Well, let’s hope that both of those two do well enough to keep them around until Florida or so.
I guess I’m the only one around here who remembers the controversy around CER. This is an important part of making Obamacare “work”.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/31/how-obamacare-will-kill-americans/
Essentially, they can’t ration against us if they don’t know where to ration. They have to research it.
And if I’ve misread any of yours’ posts then I apologize.
If it smells like big government, it probably is. :-)
If you could take Bachmann and merge her with Santorum, you’d have as close to a perfect candidate as you could get.
comparative effectiveness research, itself, is certainly not a bad thing, if medical folks are making decisions on care
but, if you read that section of the obamacare bill- it can be a scary thing
as the bill specifically states that govt folks can/will deny coverage, for procedures & drugs, deemed not effective, based on those studies
one can hope the govt folks won’t be selective in which studies they deem to use...
just an fyi
~Kate
“Satisfied?”
Quite.
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