Quoted from the linked article from Bloomberg.com:
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. 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. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Are you freaking kidding me?! "...will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective." So during the entire post 9/11 Bush presidency, we were being warned by the Democrats who were supposedly representing their liberal and progressive constituency that the government was becoming a "fascist" oppressive tool of the administration. I won't deny that there are provisions in the Patriot Act that concern me, that seem to erode our freedoms.
But now we have a provision in the "Stimulus" bill just passed by the United States Senate that basically says that the very same Federal government will have the power to determine whether the treatments being performed by your doctor are "appropriate" and "effective".
OK, so first, what's the explanation from our liberal/progressive friends that all of a sudden Federal government intrusion into our private health care choices is a good idea but government intrusion into our mail/phone calls/email system for the security of the same people is a bad idea? What's the freakin' difference??? It's still "Big Brother"!
Second, this will stimulate the economy ... HOW?
Welcome to 1984, it just came 25 years later than expected.
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