"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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azotic wrote:
Useless eaters beware !!!!!



Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm
Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions:
health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a
member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.

Emanuel believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on
who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the
non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from
being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is
not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings
Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).

Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and
consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better
spent on somebody else.

Translation: Don't give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's
or a child with cerebral palsy.

Emanuel sees even basic amenities as luxuries and says Americans
expect too much: "Hospital rooms in the United States offer more
privacy . . . physicians' offices are typically more conveniently
located and have parking nearby and more attractive waiting rooms"
(JAMA, June 18, 2008).

Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, agrees. He recommends
slowing medical innovation to control health spending.

Blumenthal has long advocated government health-spending controls,
though he concedes they're "associated with longer waits" and
"reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices"
(New England Journal of Medicine, March 8, 2001). But he calls it
"debatable" whether the timely care Americans get is worth the cost.
(Ask a cancer patient, and you'll get a different answer. Delay
lowers your chances of survival.)

Obama appointed Blumenthal as national coordinator of
health-information technology, a job that involves making sure
doctors obey electronically deivered guidelines about what care the
government deems appropriate and cost effective.

In the April 9 New England Journal of Medicine, Blumenthal predicted
that many doctors would resist "embedded clinical decision support"
-- a euphemism for computers telling doctors what to do.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009...941.htm?page=0

Best Regards


Top Five Health Care Reform Lies
Lie #1: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandma!!!

The truth: These accusations-of "death panels" and forced euthanasia-are,
of
course, flatly untrue. As an article from the Associated Press puts it:
"No
'death panel' in health care bill."4 What's the real deal? Reform
legislation includes a provision, supported by the AARP, to offer senior
citizens access to a professional medical counselor who will provide them
with information on preparing a living will and other issues facing older
Americans.5


Lie #2: Democrats are going to outlaw private insurance and force you into
a
government plan!!!

The truth: With reform, choices will increase, not decrease. Obama's
reform
plans will create a health insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping
marketplace for affordable, high-quality insurance options.6 Included in
the
exchange is the public health insurance option-a nationwide plan with a
broad network of providers-that will operate alongside private insurance
companies, injecting competition into the market to drive quality up and
costs down.7

If you're happy with your coverage and doctors, you can keep them.8 But
the
new public plan will expand choices to millions of businesses or
individuals
who choose to opt into it, including many who simply can't afford health
care now.


Lie #3: President Obama wants to implement Soviet-style rationing!!!


The truth: Health care reform will expand access to high-quality health
insurance, and give individuals, families, and businesses more choices for
coverage. Right now, big corporations decide whether to give you coverage,
what doctors you get to see, and whether a particular procedure or
medicine
is covered-that is rationed care. And a big part of reform is to stop
that.


Health care reform will do away with some of the most nefarious aspects of
this rationing: discrimination for pre-existing conditions, insurers that
cancel coverage when you get sick, gender discrimination, and lifetime and
yearly limits on coverage.9 And outside of that, as noted above, reform
will
increase insurance options, not force anyone into a rationed situation.


Lie #4: Obama is secretly plotting to cut senior citizens' Medicare
benefits!!!

The truth: Health care reform plans will not reduce Medicare benefits.10
Reform includes savings from Medicare that are unrelated to patient
care-in
fact, the savings comes from cutting billions of dollars in overpayments
to
insurance companies and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.11

Lie #5: Obama's health care plan will bankrupt America!!!

The truth: We need health care reform now in order to prevent
bankruptcy-to
control spiraling costs that affect individuals, families, small
businesses,
and the American economy.

Right now, we spend more than $2 trillion dollars a year on health care.12
The average family premium is projected to rise to over $22,000 in the
next
decade13-and each year, nearly a million people face bankruptcy because of
medical expenses.14 Reform, with an affordable, high-quality public option
that can spur competition, is necessary to bring down skyrocketing costs.
Also, President Obama's reform plans would be fully paid for over 10 years
and not add a penny to the deficit.15

--
John R. Carroll



And you trust these people? You know, the ones that got caught for not
paying taxes, the ones that made all these campaign promises to get elected
then thumbed their noses? You choose to blindly believe your lefty
heroes...I don't and I'm not alone. More than half of the public ain't
buying into it. Your Utopia isn't all that wonderful after all.

Now, you have to come back and defend them by citing Bush and Republican
mistakes thus justifying anything the Democrats do. But Bush...but
Bush...but Bush!!!