Fw: Emergency Calls Needed to DC Today- Obama Tries to Sneak Major Health Care Reform Into Stimulus Bill

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Emergency Calls Needed to DC Today- Obama Tries to Sneak Major Health

Care " Reform " Into Stimulus Bill

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IAHF List: Obama is attempting to sneak major so called " Health Care Reform "

initiatives through via the fine print in the so called " Stimulus bill " which

would stop us and our Doctors from being able to make our own decisions

regarding our health care. It would cause Doctors to be micromanaged by Big

Brother, and all our medical records to be digitized, tracked and monitored by

the government ostensibly to make things " more efficient " from a cost

standpoint, but nothing is being made more efficient unless you really love

genocide and societal control....

 

This is an OUTRAGE, and we MUST make some immediate NOISE to DEMAND that

Congress hold thorough and PROPER PUBLIC DEBATE on all this FINE PRINT Obama and

Big Pharma are trying to SNEAK THROUGH on us here!

 

Please read this article, see the simple instructions at the end on what to do,

who to call- there are 3 key Senators who must be flooded especially. Byron

Richards was up all night writing this. I am boarding a plane on Saturday for DC

and will be there for a week addressing health freedom issues. I wish I were

there RIGHT NOW, but am not, so I am doing my best to get as many HEALTH FREEDOM

GROUPS as possible to ACTIVATE THEIR BASES against this OUTRAGE!!! When I get to

DC I will be back in touch with all of you with updates. Please forward this and

alert everyone you know!!!

 

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Obama Tries to Sneak Major Health Care Reform into the Stimulus Bill

Thursday, February 12, 2009

 

Byron Richards, CCN

 

 

 

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Under the cover of emergency economic legislation the front wave of an entire

new system of health care is being pushed on Americans. The strategy for this

ploy was once explained by Obama's former appointee to head the Department of

Health and Human Services, and now exposed tax cheat, Senator Tom Daschle.

Daschle spells out the plan on pages 196-197 of his book, Critical – What We Can

Do About the Health Care Crisis, " The next president should act immediately to

capitalize on the goodwill that greets any incoming administration. If that

means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it. This issue

is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol. " In other words, public

debate should be avoided, forget about democracy – so that Obama-care does not

meet the same fate as Hillary-care.

 

In the last few days a debate on this issue has blown up on national TV, talk

radio, and the internet. It began with an article published on Bloomberg

titled, " Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan " by Betsy McCaughey.

McCaughey says the plan could be used to ration care to the elderly, putting

government, not doctors, in charge of what care will be delivered. She has been

interviewed on Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck. Fox News, the Drudge Report, and even

Rush Limbaugh have spread the news. Limbaugh warned his listening audience that

their patient privacy was at stake and that " Your medical treatments will be

tracked electronically by a federal system. " The bottom line of their messages:

quality of care and type of care will not be determined by the doctor, but

rather by a new system of cost containment implemented by the federal

government.

 

Democrats have found themselves on the defense. While getting grilled on FOX

news Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said, " There is nothing in this legislation that

interferes with a doctor making a decision, with the patient, on what is

appropriate care. What is in this legislation is an effort to make sure we

share information – generically, appropriately – so doctors and medical

providers can have the best information, but there's nothing in this bill that

compromises the decision-making between the doctor and the patient. "

 

Democratic websites have attacked McCaughey, saying she is reading more into the

bill than is actually there. She has fired back, saying the health-care

language in the bill has nothing whatsoever to do with new jobs and jump

starting the economy. She says, " Americans deserve an open and honest debate

about creating a federal healthcare infrastructure of this magnitude. These

health provisions should be removed from the stimulus bill and offered to

Congress in separate legislation. "

 

We even have Scott Gottlieb getting into the discussion, the former second in

command at the FDA, who during his time at the FDA advocated the

industry-friendly position that Americans should be exposed to dangerous and

expensive drug experiments and have no right to recourse if they are injured.

Now he says, " The bill will be used to create guidelines to direct doctors'

treatment of difficult, high-cost medical problems. " His statement means that

Big Pharma and Big Biotech are really concerned that their future cash-cow

experiments may not be covered by the new plan.

 

Indeed, Big Pharma was really upset about parts of the plan that called for

spending government money to try and compare the effectiveness of drugs, one to

another. This provision has now been changed based on intense lobbying over the

past few days. Such a provision would have been really bad news for Big Pharma,

as it would quickly be discovered that their drugs hardly work at all to produce

positive health outcomes, especially in preventive medicine. For a more

comprehensive understanding of Big Pharma in relation to the health care

handouts in this bill, read my article " Is Obama Bailing Out Big Pharma's

Bursting Bubble. "

 

The Hill website reported in early December that Senate Finance Committee

Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) wanted health IT in the stimulus bill to help

avoid a fight on healthcare early in 2009 when lawmakers were drafting broader

healthcare legislation. " There are going to be certain costs of healthcare

reform — upfront costs. If I can put some of those upfront costs in the

so-called stimulus bill, I'd rather put them there….We've got to create a very

significant upfront effort early on and keep the momentum going on healthcare, "

said Baucus, who added he was in regular contact with the Obama team, Kennedy

and other key lawmakers.

 

Several things are certain. Health IT has nothing to do with meaningful

stimulus for the economy. It is in the stimulus bill to get its own financial

stimulus, helping to jump start Obama-care without any public debate.

 

The Scope of Obama's Health IT

 

In the 680 page House version of the stimulus bill (H.R.1.E.H., pdf version),

almost 200 pages are spent on Health IT (434-627). Right away you can

understand that this is a comprehensive piece of legislation, taking up almost

1/3 of the bill. The legislation establishes within the Department of Health

and Human Services an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology, which will be headed by a National Coordinator. This is like

creating a new FDA, meaning the size of this new branch of government will end

up quite large. It states various admirable purposes, such as ensuring

electronic health information is secure and that it is used to better patient

care. An overall goal is to have an electronic health record for every American

by 2014 (page 445).

 

This is not a passive IT system that is collecting data. It is intended to be

used as a tool to deploy a type of care it deems appropriate based on government

employees making policy-related health decisions, with a stated purpose so the

IT system " provides appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at

the time and place of care. " (page 442)

 

Anybody reading this legislation quickly realizes that it is much more than a

health IT system. It is a new type of health care with a blank check on

expanding its regulatory powers to accomplish anything it deems appropriate.

For example, on page 447 it reads, " REPORT ON ADDITIONAL FUNDING OR AUTHORITY

NEEDED.—Not later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this title,

the National Coordinator shall submit to the appropriate committees of

jurisdiction of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on any

additional funding or authority the Coordinator or the HIT Policy Committee or

HIT Standards Committee requires to evaluate and develop standards,

implementation specifications, and certification criteria, or to achieve full

participation of stakeholders in the adoption of a nationwide health information

technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of

health information. "

 

A short version of this is " the National Coordinator shall report on any

additional authority required to achieve full participation of stakeholders. " In

other words, everyone will play ball and or else the National Coordinator must

seek more power to be able to get everyone in line.

 

The legislation makes it clear that this is not just about your personal health.

On page 455 it says, " the HIT Policy Committee may consider the following

additional areas: The appropriate uses of a nation wide health information

infrastructure, including for purposes of biosurveillance and public health. "

This approves the use of your health information for military-related needs and

other public health measures (meaning did you get all your vaccinations? etc.).

It is not at all a stretch of the imagination to interpret this to mean that

your electronic health record will be used to ensure you are in compliance with

public health initiatives.

 

The legislation specifically mandates compliance by the private sector, page

470: " SEC. 4112. APPLICATION TO PRIVATE ENTITIES. Each agency (relating to

promoting quality and efficient health care in Federal government administered

or sponsored health care programs) shall require in contracts or agreements with

health care providers, health plans, or health insurance issuers that as each

provider, plan, or issuer implements, acquires, or upgrades health information

technology systems, it shall utilize, where available, health information

technology systems and products that meet standards and implementation

specifications. "

 

In other words, all health professionals are required to abide by the standards

of care that are determined in conjunction with the cost containment and " best

practices " ideas of the federal government, whatever they may be. This means

that the government is directly telling doctors how to practice medicine, and

even what kind of medicine is allowed, contrary to what Senator Cardin told FOX

news.

 

The theme and importance of conforming to the government's idea of medical care

is further spelled out in the section on the MEDICARE PROGRAM - INCENTIVES FOR

ELIGIBLE PROFESSIONALS. This section introduces the term " meaningful user, "

which is repeatedly used in the context of a health professional who is

conforming to whatever the IT system tells them to do with their patients. It

offers them bonuses up to $15,000 per year to comply with the IT health

guidelines. (page 513) This means your doctor's bonus could be more important

than the right decision for your health.

 

The goal is to get doctors in the loop and then force them to comply with

guidelines of care: " The Secretary shall seek to improve the use of electronic

health records and health care quality over time by requiring more stringent

measures of meaningful use. " (page 518) This is an open-ended and vaguely

defined approach that could mean almost anything.

 

Freedom and Choice are Being Sacrificed

 

The price of this legislation cannot be measured in dollars. The price of this

legislation should be measured in your loss of freedom, loss of privacy, and

loss of choice relating to your own health. The government will want your DNA

in its database next. It will want a chip in your arm to really keep track of

you and your health. One thing will lead to another.

 

This legislation represents a broad and sweeping change in the type of care you

will be able to receive. And that care will be set by the government, by

unelected bureaucrats with who knows what agenda.

 

If this is what Americans really want then it should be debated and discussed

openly on its merits. Freedom is not easily regained once it is lost. Once

upon a time the people of Germany had a truly advanced health care system called

the " freedom to cure. " It encouraged alternative health practitioners to

practice side by side with medical doctors, offering true freedom of choice, all

in the best interests of the patient. That was a long time ago.

 

In the name of public health, those freedoms were set aside for the rise of a

socialist system. It was recognized that health freedom fostered mental health

and free thinking citizens, and those rights were not compatible with socialism.

Health freedom and general health choice were obliterated in the name of the

greater good. The government had control. Even though Hitler was stopped,

Germany has never regained its health freedom and today has one of the most

repressive socialist health care systems on earth.

 

Certainly we want to do what we can to help Americans who are struggling with

health problems, especially when those problems were not created by their own

poor choices. It is simply not right to sacrifice our identity as a free people

to accomplish that objective.

 

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Emergency Call to Action

The only chance to stop sweeping health care reform, which is being pushed

through without any public debate, is to flood the Senate with objection to the

Health Care IT portion of the bill – demanding its removal from the Stimulus

bill. The Senate is expected to vote on Friday. In addition to calling and

faxing your own Senators, also let the three Republican Senators who are

supporting this legislation know that you are opposed to Health IT, which is

really major health care reform, being included in the Stimulus bill. Simply

say, " I adamantly object to the Health IT provision in the Stimulus bill, which

are designed to drastically change health care and are not relevant to stimulus.

Americans deserve an open and honest debate on this very important topic. These

health IT provisions should be removed from the Stimulus bill and offered to

Congress in separate legislation. "

 

Contact Your Senators

Capitol Switchboard – (202) 224-3121

Or find your Senator's contact information online by clicking here

 

The Three Key Senators to Also Contact:

Collins, Susan M. - (R - ME)—Direct: (202) 224-2523, Fax: (202) 224-2693

Specter, Arlen - (R - PA)—Direct: (202) 224-4254, Fax: 202-228-1229

Snowe, Olympia J. - (R - ME)—Direct: (202) 224-5344, Fax: (202) 224-1946

 

 

For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for

Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com jham 800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World

 

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