'Health Rules' to affect 'Every Individual in the United States'

Obama Stimulus Plan Has 'Health Rules' to affect 'Every Individual in the United States'

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version). 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." (click here for more)

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"We are not going to let the federal government monitor what doctors do," Sen. Arlen Specter told Fox News on Tuesday. One provision creates a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, "designed to monitor your treatments, to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective," as Bloomberg News Service reported on Monday. (click here for more).