Health Update from Washington, D.C.

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AMERICAN

WELLNESS COALITION

 

TO DEFEND OUR HEALTH

February 20, 2009

Dear Doc,

President Obama signed the economic

stimulus package into law this week. Below are links to three articles

that appeared last week. They discuss how the stimulus will affect

health care in America,

from the viewpoint of natural health and health freedom.

 

You will see that recognized health

freedom champions believe this new law represents “the front wave of an

entire new system of health care,†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…†Worse, “all U.S.

doctors will now be stripped of autonomy and forced to follow the

medical treatment guidelines dictated by the government.†This should

concern all Americans.

 

This bill was rushed through Congress

without debate, without committee hearings, without committee mark-up

sessions where the bill could be amended.

 

Obama Tries to

Sneak Major Health Care Reform Into Economic Stimulus Bill

Thursday, February 12, 2009 by: Byron

Richards, Health Freedom Editor

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

Under the cover of emergency economic

legislation the front wave of an entire new system of health care is

being pushed on Americans…

 

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."

 

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…

 

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.

 

Big Brother

Health Care Provisions Slipped Into Economic Stimulus Bill

Tuesday,

February 10, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

The new $800 billion economic stimulus

bill contains some striking new "Big Brother" health care language that

should give pause to all freedom-loving Americans. For starters, the

bill requires the electronic tracking of the medical records of all

Americans. All your private medical data will be stored in a government

database, including your history of disease, pharmaceutical treatments,

surgeries and even emergency room visits…

 

But it gets even more interesting than that: Under the new provisions

found in the bill, all U.S. doctors will now be

stripped of autonomy and forced to follow the medical treatment

guidelines dictated by the government… It means doctors can no longer

make their own decisions about patients' needs or treatment protocols.

From now on, all health care decisions will be centrally planned by a

dictatorial, Big Brother health care authority in the federal

government.

 

As Bloomberg.com reports, Tom Daschle

was one of the architects of this plan, and he says that doctors "have

to learn to operate less like solo practitioners."

 

Effectively, this bill transforms the entire U.S.

medical profession into nothing more than pill-pushing puppets. It

wipes out the intelligence of a local doctor and replaces it with the

stupidity of Big Government.

 

Economic

Stimulus Bill Mandates $954 Million for Vaccinations, $545 Million for

"Genomics Programs"

Thursday, February 12, 2009 by: Mike

Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

HIGHLIGHTS:

…one section of the economic stimulus

bill designates nearly a billion dollars for new vaccinations of

children. This was discovered by Elisha Celeste, a

NaturalNews reader. As stated in the bill:

 

$954,000,000 shall be used as an

additional amount to carry out the immunization program authorized by

section 317(a), (j), and (k)(1) of the Public Health Service Act

("section 317 immunization program")

 

The economic stimulus bill also

requests more than half a billion dollars for "genomics programs",

saying:

 

$545,000,000 shall be used as an additional amount to carry out

chronic disease, health promotion, and genomics programs

 

What's interesting about this last quote is that it essentially says

this half a billion dollars should be used to carry out three things:

 

1) Chronic disease programs

2) Health promotion

3) Genomics programs

 

The real question, of course, is this: What is sweeping health care

reform doing hidden inside an economic stimulus bill?

 

**********

 

My next email will contain my ideas for

a legislative reform agenda. I will survey you for your input.

 

With warmest regards,

 

 

Greg

Greg Mitchell

Representing the American

Wellness Coalition in Washington,

D.C.

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