I read the two articles separately, but after pondering the implications, it dawned on me they're actually related. In the first article I read from Bloomberg News Services, Tom Daschle, Obama's first nominee for Secretary of Health & Human Services, put into the current Economic Stimulus plan a set of health provisions that setup an electronic means for the Federal Government to track a patient's medical treatments. This will become possible under a proposed "National Coordinator of Health Information Technology" which "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."
That's no different than what Tom Daschle wrote in his "2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” In his book he wrote, "doctors have to give up autonomy and 'learn to operate less like solo practitioners.'" He also "proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the 'tough' decisions elected politicians won’t make" which will "slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs." Liberals always scream and rant and rave about how Bush stole our Freedoms under the Patriot Act, of which I haven't heard of an actual Freedom they could name that was lost, but nonetheless, here they are taking away our Rights to choose a doctor and decide what medical treatments we want to pay for as well as our Doctor's Right to prescribe those medical treatments. This is fascism. This is an absolute dictatorial system in which we have no Rights. I live just outside LA, how can I kick the ass of the Bureaucrat in DC that denied my cancer treatment or my grandmother's peripheral neuropathy treatment??? Unbelievable.
In the second article I read from the LA Times, "three federal judges, saying overcrowding in state prisons has deprived inmates of their right to adequate health care, tentatively ruled Monday that the state must reduce the population in those lockups by as many as 57,000 people." "The judges found that with inmates crammed into institutions, they could not receive the care to which they are entitled under the U.S. Constitution." This was caused by "a shortage of doctors, nurses and correctional officers has denied inmates access to treatment and a decent system to keep their medical records in order." So here we have evidence of the State running it's own medical care facilities here in California, and three Federal Judges decided it was so bad that the state has to get rid of 33% of the inmates that rely on the system. Haha, imagine when the Federal Government runs Health Care and the costs are too much for it to bear. I wonder who will get booted from the system.
I read that Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer, but too bad he doesn't cry. Maybe he will when this Neo-socialist Administration gives him and other millionaires the bill for their health care solution but I doubt Tom Daschle's replacement will allow the Doctor to prescribe them.
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It's a scary thought when you lose control of your health care treatment. I believe the drug companies and the FDA are working together to simply make money. That's the bottom line. Read Kevin Trudeau's book "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About" and you will learn about that. I don't agree with everything he says, and you have to filter out his own beliefs, but overall I think he points out that we are and in some cases have already lost our rights to choose your own health care plan. For instance, he cites a story where someone had cancer and they wanted to treat it naturally and not with drugs. However, the courts ruled that things like fruit and vegetables were not able to cure disease. Only man-made medicine. That's like saying only the gov't can eliminate poverty. Oh really? I didn't know my poverty was caused due to a lack of gov't help. Just like I didn't know my cancer was due to a lack of radiation! We've become a society that treats symptoms and ignores the source of problems/sickness and the cure of said illness. "There's no money in the cure" as Chris Rock stated in a stand-up performance. And he's right, there is no money. Pharmaceutical companies lead us to believe that their medicine will cure us. No medicine will cure, they just cover up the symptoms. And sometimes, the medicine is worse than cause! Have you ever seen a commercial for products like cholesterol reducers? The side-effects will range from nausea to heart attack, stroke, and may even cause the symptom you have to increase! I kid you not, I saw a commercial for a product (I don't remember which) and the side-effect was the same as the original problem! Unbelievable! Why would you take that. I'd rather die of high blood pressure than have to be on ten other pills to normalize the side-effects of one pill. If I can help it I'll never be on long-term prescription meds.
And as far as the prisoners go, if we have a national health care system, these people will be on it anyway! You're just pushing the bill from the state to the federal gov't. And right now, if decent hard working people can't find jobs, how much harder will it be for people with a record! I understand why they want the budget cuts, but I feel that it's not really going to help much, it's just going to push the paperwork around. Either way, national health care is a joke. The gov't needs to put as much emphasis on protecting our borders and getting out of our pockets as they do into trying to control everything.
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