“The Forgotten Man of Socialized Medicine”–and us

“The Forgotten Man of Socialized Medicine”–and us

"Instead of bickering about the price tag of Obama-care, it’s time to fight the battle against socialized medicine on moral grounds. It’s time for doctors to defend their moral right to practice medicine free from government interference. And it’s time for their patients to defend their moral right to purchase health-care on a free market."

Who cares about the doctors?

Who cares about the doctors?

A few questions to ponder:

* Are you content to have your doctor’s professional judgment second-guessed and regulated by politicians?

* Should our legal system treat doctors like civil servants who are obligated to place their skills and intelligence at the service of every individual who happens to need medical care?

* When America’s doctors have finally lost all freedom to treat patients as their professional judgment dictates, who will be left to provide health care in this country?

Read the whole essay here:

Who cares about the doctors?

Health Care Fascism in MA : A Harbinger of Our Future

The WSJ recently wrote an excellent piece providing an update on how the health care situation has been playing out in Massachusett's several years after the institution of RomneyCare. As we are all aware, the state-wide initative there provided the blueprint which ObamaCare essentially copied and applied on a national scale.

Consequently, it should not come as a  suprise to anyone when the logical consequences of the implementation of ObamaCare turn out to be no different.

http://tinyurl.com/9tk3fen

RomneyCare 2.0 

With costs rising fast, Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care.

From the article:

"....The same plan enacted in Massachusetts has resulted in "surging [health care] costs, price controls, physician shortages" and a lot more, including their new plan to hold their doctors hostage by means of their state medical licenses:

"...Under the plan, all Massachusetts doctors, hospitals and other providers must register with a new state bureaucracy as a condition of licensure—that is, permission to practice. ...

An 11-member board known as the Health Policy Commission will use the data to set and enforce rules to ensure that total Massachusetts health spending, public and private, grows no more than projected gross state product through 2017, and 0.5 percentage points lower thereafter. ...

No registered provider is allowed to make "any material change to its operations or governance structure," the bill says, without the commission's approval. The commission can also rewrite the terms of provider contracts with insurers and payment levels and methods if they are "deemed to be excessive....

In other words, the commission is empowered to control the practice and organization of medicine."

Take a good hard look, folks: This is what fascism looks like:

The dictionary definition of fascism is: “a governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.), emphasizing an aggressive nationalism . . .” [The American College Dictionary,
New York: Random House, 1957.]

Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it—at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens."

 http://tinyurl.com/pqglow

 What is particularly interesting here is that the text, the scope and intent of the government take-over plan mimics almost word for word, the text of Directive 10-289 in Ayn Rand's 1957 epic novel, Atlas Shrugged- with a few minor modifications as follows:

http://tinyurl.com/9tk3fen

"DIRECTIVE 10-289

“In the name of the general welfare to protect the people’s [health care] security, to achieve full equality and total [health care] stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national [health care] emergency that-

All [doctors and health care providers] of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the [ Health Policy Commission ]  , such board to be appointed by the Bureau Of Economic Planning and National Resources.....

Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any [health care good or service] whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as is, they or he produced during the Basic Year, no more or no less. The year is to known as the Basic or Yardstick Year is to be the year ending on the date of this directive. Over or under production shall be fined, such fines to be determined by the Unification board.....

All [health care] wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures, as of the date of this directive. (But taxes will be allowed to increase as needed for the public good)....

 All cases arising from and rules not specifically provided for in this directive, shall be settled and determined by the [Health Policy Commission], whose decisions shall be final...."

See the full text of Directive 10-289 here:

http://tinyurl.com/kotabr

The Federal Government's War On Medical Innovation

We Stand FIRM: Hsieh Forbes OpEd: The Federal Government's War On...:

In this article, Dr. Paul Hsieh discusses how the government is hampering the development of life-saving medical technology through two methods: new taxes and FDA regulation.

Here is the opening;

"The federal government is waging a stealth two-pronged war on medical innovation. And it will cost not just American jobs, but American lives.

The first prong is through new taxes. Recently, the Cook Medical company announced that it was canceling plans to open new factories because of the impending ObamaCare tax on medical device manufacturers scheduled to take effect in 2013. The 2.3% tax on total sales (not profits) will cost Cook $20 million dollars a year. As a result, the company will not be opening five plants that would have employed up to 300 people each.

Cook is not the only medical device company affected by the tax. Stryker (which makes artificial joints) will cut 5% of its workforce. Medtronic has announced the tax will cut into its investments in future products. Jonathan Rennert, chairman of Zoll Medical (which makes advanced cardiac defibrillators) has stated that the tax will mean “less innovation, fewer jobs, and fewer lives saved.”

The second prong of the war on innovation is through regulations..."

 http://blog.westandfirm.org/2012/08/hsieh-forbes-oped-federal-governments.html

We Stand FIRM: NYT Notices Coverage Doesn't Equal Care

 Paul Hsieh reports: "...The 7/28/2012 New York Times reports, "Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Health Law".  I was especially struck by the fact that they finally recognize that "coverage" does not equal health care...

The article goes on to point out: "...Experts describe a doctor shortage as an "invisible problem." Patients still get care, but the process is often slow and difficult. In Riverside, it has left residents driving long distances to doctors, languishing on waiting lists, overusing emergency rooms and even forgoing care....".

You can be sure that this "invisible" problem will soon become "very visible", if Obama's Unaffordable Care Act" is allowed to come to fruition.....

We Stand FIRM: NYT Notices Coverage Doesn't Equal Care: The 7/28/2012 New York Times reports, " Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Health Law ". I was especially struck by the fact that they...

Dr. Orwell Will See You Now: Dr. Paul Hsieh PJM OpEd:

We Stand FIRM: Hsieh PJM OpEd: Dr. Orwell Will See You Now:
 
In this excellent Op-ed, Dr. Paul Hsieh discusses the various forms of deceptive language ObamaCare advocates in and out of the government are now using to sugarcoat and obfuscate its true nature.

Terms like "affordable", "protection", "autonomy", "marketplace", and "coverage" all take on new meanings for ObamaCare supporters. They even have their own version of Orwell's famous "Slavery is Freedom".

Don't be fooled by their health care Newspeak!

See full text: "Dr. Orwell Will See You Now"

Obama: Under Me "People Have A New Attitude Toward America" And "More Confidence"

"Because we're leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America. There’s more confidence in our leadership. We see it everywhere we go," President Obama said at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno.

"Four years ago, I stood before you at a time of great challenge for our nation. We were engaged in two wars. Al Qaeda was entrenched in their safe havens in Pakistan. Many of our alliances were frayed. Our standing in the world had suffered. We were in the worst recession of our lifetimes. Around the world, some questioned whether the United States still had the capacity to lead," Obama said earlier in his speech.

"So, four years ago, I made you a promise. I pledged to take the fight to our enemies, and renew our leadership in the world. As President, that’s what I’ve done. And as you reflect on recent years, as we look ahead to the challenges we face as a nation and the leadership that’s required, you don’t just have my words, you have my deeds. You have my track record. You have the promises I’ve made and the promises that I’ve kept," he said.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/23/obama_under_me_people_have_a_new_attitude_toward_america_and_more_confidence.html

 What to make of this ?

"Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, making the truth less unpleasant, without denying its nature.

It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning (for example, naming a state of war "peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth, producing a communication bypass. However, euphemism is not the same as doublespeak....

In his essay "Politics and the English Language", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality. Orwell’s description of political speech is extremely similar to the contemporary definition of doublespeak;

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible… Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness… the great enemy of clear language is insincerity. Where there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, ...

Similarities can be observed in Orwell’s own definition of doublethink, from Nineteen Eighty-Four;

" The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies.."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

In less intellectual vernacular, Obama is a compulsive, complete and incorrigible liar, his above comments are utter bullshit intentionally designed to obfuscate and invert facts, and anyone who believes them is an idiot who is out-of-touch with reality......