Welcome to the new reality of US health care rationing.
Under new Massachusetts state laws, MA has established and empowered 2 new government agencies of non-medical bureaucrats- the Health Policy Commission and the Center for Health Information Analysis — to:
1)scrutinize all of your own *previously private * medical information - now accessible to them through electronic medical records
2) set fixed, arbitrary state medical budgets- and "best practice guidelines " established by non-doctors of state- recommended and allowable medical care
3) retroactively second-guess and over-rule the individualized medical decision-making and diagnostic and treatment plans of your doctor,
4) "discipline" and fine your doctor for the crime of non-state-sanctioned medical decision-making
The new government agencies in MA are nothing more than the precursor of the federal "Independent Payment Advisory Board" (IPAB) - a new federal agency authorized under the new ObamaCare legislation to cut Medicare spending.
Under new Massachusetts state laws, MA has established and empowered 2 new government agencies of non-medical bureaucrats- the Health Policy Commission and the Center for Health Information Analysis — to:
1)scrutinize all of your own *previously private * medical information - now accessible to them through electronic medical records
2) set fixed, arbitrary state medical budgets- and "best practice guidelines " established by non-doctors of state- recommended and allowable medical care
3) retroactively second-guess and over-rule the individualized medical decision-making and diagnostic and treatment plans of your doctor,
4) "discipline" and fine your doctor for the crime of non-state-sanctioned medical decision-making
The new government agencies in MA are nothing more than the precursor of the federal "Independent Payment Advisory Board" (IPAB) - a new federal agency authorized under the new ObamaCare legislation to cut Medicare spending.
In an article several months ago, Docs4PatientCare founder Dr. Hal Scherz has the following to say about IPAB:
" ....Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been quoted as saying that the majority of IPAB members must not be medical practitioners.
Though some doctors may be represented, it is unlikely that they will be actively practicing clinicians who care for patients directly. Instead, the board will be populated by economists and other bureaucrats - "bean counters" - who will be given the responsibility of deciding how doctors caring for Medicare patients will get paid. It is anticipated that IPAB will drive payments so low that many doctors will be unable to offer certain services to patients, resulting in rationing of health care, which the administration fervently denies....
IPAB has almost limitless power over Medicare spending. Written into the Affordable Care Act are provisions that essentially make its decisions exempt from congressional oversight and impervious to administrative or judicial review. It is a nearly autonomous agency operating as an arm of the executive branch. Conveniently, this does not occur until after the 2012 elections...."
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