Letter to the Editor

Dorothy ... are we still in America?

Thursday, February 12, 2009

In a few days...if the Stimulus Bill reaches the President's desk for signature...you and your doctor will enter the final stages of "individual" health care and decisions tailored specifically to YOUR needs.

Contained deep within the 1500-page Obama-Reid-Pelosi "stimulus" bill H.R. 1 are measure that will allow the federal government to create a health information monopoly. This will make a giant leap toward the nationalized health-care that Hilary and others have tried for years to implement.

Betsh McCaughey's 2/9/09 column, "Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan" details how the vague stimulus bill language will affect all Americans. She confirms the provisions of this health caare strategy are those outlined by the recently disgraced HHS Secretary Nominee Tom Daschle in his 2008 book entitled "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis."

The "stimulus" health care plan will be fleshed-out by bureaucrats and lobbyists -- people you and I did not elect -- who will decide the "details" that will result 'life or death' consequences for our parents, children, grandchildren -- and for us.

Some "stimulus" bill details taken from a recent alert are:

Rations medical treatments, doctor's appointments, procedures, prescriptions, etc. by setting up a federal database to track and monitor every American's medical records and activity.

Creates a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will monitor all treatments of every American in order to ensure that your medical procedures are deemed "cost effective" to the federal government. The ultimate goal here is to have a single-payer system where medical procedures you elect to have are viewed as a "cost" to the government, since the health care market will ultimately be taxpayer-funded.

Harms senior citizens and the elderly the most. The Federal Council will be granted authority to intervene and prohibit a patient from receiving a particular health service on the basis that it is not "cost effective." This means that the government is more likely to deny an elderly person a service than a younger person, because the younger person will benefit a greater number of years from the medical treatment than the elderly person.

Imposes penalties on hospitals and doctors that are not "meaningful users," meaning that those who do not abide by the mandates will be punished. The stimulus bill does not specify what sort of penalties will apply, and this is intentional. Obama will leave these controversial decisions up to the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research.

Time is short forTaxpayers and citizens to have a voice! The "stimulus" has passed both Houses of Congress and a compromise is being hammered out. Step 1: call, fax or e-mail your Representatives and Senators.

Step 2: It is critical that you contact members of Congress who are medical doctors (MD's). Ask that they go to the floor and clearly explain for the American people what is really going on with this "stimulus". Phone numbers can be found at www.house.gov or www.senate.gov

Senator Tom Coburn, MD (R-OK) Rep. John Fleming, MD (R-LA)

Senator John Barrasso, MD (R-WY) Rep. Paul Broun, MD (R-GA)

Rep. Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX) Rep. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA)

Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD (R-GA) Rep. Parker Griffith, MD (D-AL)

Rep. Ron Paul, MD (R-TX) Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA)

Rep. Phil Roe, MD (R-TN)

Help us preserve a free America!

Kathy Wilmot,

Beaver City

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  • It's always mildly entertaining to watch the wingnuts flap their arms and run about squawking the latest alarum broadcast, no doubt, by one or the other of the wingnut's babbling bobble head oracles;oxyrush limpball,shun sannity, the sludge report or any number of other entertainers paid to incite frenzy and confusion. If the initial poster had wished to provide real information, she'd have included a link to the actual wording of the proposed legislation, or provided verifiable passages from it to illustrate the source of her panic.Otherwise a list of republican legislators, some of which like Coburn of Oklahoma are nearly certifiable nutcakes is less than convincing.

    -- Posted by davis_x_machina on Fri, Feb 13, 2009, at 11:13 AM
  • Thanks davis.x, MS. Wilmont is another one of the new publicans that are now economic experts. THEY run up the absolute biggest deficit in history and are now suddenly concerned about it???!!!! Perhaps they should have been concerned about 8 years ago, when ol' W started his run. THEY inherit a budject surplus and turn it into the biggest deficit ever. Now all they can do is cry about how the sky is falling, doom and gloom, sorry charlie and G65, your boys and girls screwed it up, now we are all paying for it, and will be for years. I will again state my stance on the stimulus package, how are the publicans suddenly smarter than the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, who states the package is not big enough to bring the country out of the mess.

    -- Posted by goarmy67 on Fri, Feb 13, 2009, at 6:55 PM
  • You've got to be kidding, the people elected to office are the ones responsible for making these decisions not an economist with a reward. An award does not make him smarter than any other economist either. It just means a small group of people "thought" he was better than the select few they looked at. There are also plenty of economists who believe that this is a bad bill and a waste of money. They also believe it will only succeed in jeopardizing our future even further with unprecedented debt in one shot. Of course, with your philosophy we don't need to elect our representatives anymore, we just need to let Nobel Prize winners make all our decisions for us because they're superhuman and never get anything wrong.

    -- Posted by McCook1 on Mon, Feb 16, 2009, at 9:17 AM
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