I can think of nothing that will drive more good/gifted/ethical people away from the practice of medicine than what is buried deep within the new stimulus bill that President Obama wants to pass so quickly and with so little real scrutiny. The kind of "uniformity" described is ominous and unrealistic in any practical sense. One must consider resources. The doctor-patient relationship is a human one. And New York City is not rural North Carolina.
Doctors and hospitals as (currently undefined) "meaningful users" of the new (electronic) system will be evaluated by some nebulous, (again, undefined) mechanism in USDHHS (the same USDHHS whose people could not come out from under their desks and wipe their own butts in my case?) I am really not believing my eyes.
And I've got news for you people. This is NOT going to decrease costs (quite the opposite) or stimulate anything but a mass exodus from medicine by the brightest and best.
Daschle still lives/lurks. May God help us!
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Yes! The Whiners are going to get what they think they want but they are not going to like it. BB
That's not the only danger lurking beneath the disguise of "helping American's" in the "not so Stimulus Bill".
The bill establishes Section 9201 of the stimulus package establishes the "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research." This body, which would be made up of federal bureaucrats will "coordinate the conduct or support of comparative effectiveness and related health services research."
Such a council would, "lower overall spending by determining which medicines, treatments and procedures are most effective-and identifying those that do not justify their high price tags."
In other words if you are sick and the treatment cost too much according to the "experts", not the Doctor's , then you just die.
Once a panel of government experts decides what is and what is not cost-effective by their definition, the government will stop paying for treatments, medicines, therapies or devices that fall into the latter category. Initially, this will limit access to very expensive treatments for federal employees, veterans, the elderly, members of the military and their dependents and others who rely on the feds to pay for their health care. But since this would place nearly half of health care dollars off limits for such treatments, the demand for and further development of such treatments would likely dry up.
I took note that the first folks it will effect are the Vets and the older Americans. Am I surprised? Hell no! Not coming from an empty suited, unqualified, George Soros sock puppet. The sooner the Vets are gone and the old people the sooner they will have more money to spend on welfare programs to insure they stay in power.
You can read the rest by copying and pasting the link below. If it doesn't scare the hell out of you, then you're already dead.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/how_the_stimulus_bill_could_ki.html
The way things are going, I don't think this country is going to be fit to live in in ten or fifteen years. It may not take that long.
Medicine will almost certainly be a pseudo-fascist disaster. We who practice it face an Orwellian future - if we choose to continue.
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