I'm talking about more than a simple danger to the economy. I'm talking about to the American way of life, and more specifically to American lives. I'm going to put this in a way that everyone should be able to understand, so read it twice if you have to.
If this package passes, some Americans WILL die.
"..no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle...One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective."
Yes, you read that right. We're being asked to suspend disbelief here and imagine for a second that the Federal Government can actually find its own ass with both hands, a map and a GPS, AND do so in a way that doesn't cost a lot of money. Sure.
It gets better, read on.
"Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time...
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional."
It's a power-grab. Plain and simple. But wait:
"The goal... is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. [Daschle] praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
This guy is unreal. Of course Europeans give up easily...they took their lessons from the French. You can't tell me that things are so bad that it's necessary to tell our senior citizens to just suck it up and accept imminent and unavoidable death. Americans don't give up without a fight, it's part of what defines us as a country. Daschle and the Democrats apparently don't see things the same way.
I wonder if Daschle has called Ted Kennedy and advised him to stop treatments for his brain cancer because he's expecting too much from the health-care system. Has he told Kennedy to just man up and die?
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.Is this what America has become? Is this what we must become in order to 'survive?' An America where we tell our seniors to go piss off and die because it costs too much to treat them? Where we just give up?
Congratulations America. This is what you voted for. Here's your change.
Source: Bloomberg.com
