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http://snipurl.com/dfrzv Obama & community health centersOptions Richard Moore   View profile Mar 4, 3:42 pm > "These health centers will expand access to care by helping people   > in need - many with no health insurance - obtain access to   > comprehensive primary and preventive health care services," Obama   > told a news conference. Community health centers, which help people even if they can't pay for   the services. sounds like a wonderful idea. We must however consider   what these health centers really mean, within the context of Obama's   overall approach to health care 'reform'. Obama goes on: > "That helps relieve the burden on emergency rooms across the   > country, which have become primary care clinics for too many who   > lack coverage - often at taxpayer expense." In other words, the centers will relieve the private medical sector   (which operates most emergency rooms) of the burden of servicing the   most unprofitable patients. Obama is helping the private sector to   'externalize its costs' and 'internalize it profits' -- at our   expense. Nonetheless this could still be a very good thing for users   of the centers, and well worth the public investment -- depending on   the quality of the care provided. In that regard, consider this   article...         Big Brother Health Care Provisions Slipped Into Economic Stimulus Bill         http://www.naturalnews.com/025575.html          "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." The bill talks about improving the standard of care, but where is the   evidence that American doctors are incompetent to judge the needs   of their own patients, who may have unique circumstances? In fact, we   can expect government-mandated treatment protocols to be oriented   around cost-cutting and around serving the interests of Big Pharma,   whose lobbyists have a stranglehold on Congress. Such protocols will in all probability prevent doctors from employing   best-practices that the government considers 'too expensive', and will   require the prescribing of specific pharmaceuticals against a doctor's   better judgement. The doctor's role will be only to diagnose the   complaint, to pick one of the government's categories. All that   medical-school learning and on-the-ground experience, as regards   identifying the best treatment, will be wasted. This is a very invasive version of Big Brother, and the community   centers will be direct outlets for it, controlled in every aspect by   some remote bureaucracy with other objectives than providing   appropriate care. As with all of Obama's agendas, there is the glossy   sales pitch -- universally embraced by the mass media -- and then   there is the underlying dark side, the questions that aren't asked,   the details that are omitted, the alternatives that aren't considered,   the consequences that will only become apparent when it is too late. rkm ___ http://www.truthout.org/030309HA http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_2_MOLT/idUSTRE5216OP... Obama Pushes Centers as One Focus of Health Reform Monday 02 March 2009 by: Maggie Fox, Reuters      Washington - President Barack Obama has been vague about details   of his health care reform efforts, but he provided a hint on Monday of   one direction he could take - community health centers.      As he announced the nominations of his two top health executives,   Obama highlighted the allocation of $155 million to 126 community   health centers as part of the $787 billion economic stimulus package.      "These health centers will expand access to care by helping   people in need - many with no health insurance - obtain access to   comprehensive primary and preventive health care services," Obama told   a news conference.      "That helps relieve the burden on emergency rooms across the   country, which have become primary care clinics for too many who lack   coverage - often at taxpayer expense."      The Health and Human Services Department said the money would   create 5,500 new jobs and help provide health care to an estimated   750,000 low-income Americans.      Gary Pickens, chief research officer for the health care business   of Thomson Reuters, a division of Thomson Reuters Corp, agreed the   centers relieve overburdened hospitals.      "Hospitals currently have overcrowded emergency departments and   would probably prefer to see care given in more appropriate settings   for conditions that don't require hospitalization," Pickens said in a   telephone interview.      One of the repeated criticisms of the U.S. health care system is   that patients are often sent to emergency departments for routine care   if, for instance, their physician's office is closed or if they do not   have health insurance.      Costs in emergency rooms are much higher than in a clinic, and   politicians who oppose any kind of a move toward nationalized health   care support the idea of using retail and community clinics to fill in   some of the gaps.      "Over the next two years, a total of $2 billion in Recovery Act   funding will be invested in Community Health Centers to support   renovations and repairs, investments in health information technology,   and critically needed health care services," HHS said in a statement.      It said one out of 19 American uses federal government funded   health clinic for primary health care - and such clinics treated 16   million people in 2008, including dental and mental health care.      "Nearly forty percent of patients treated have no health   insurance and one-third are children," HHS said.      Obama named Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to head HHS on Monday   and former Clinton Medicare official Nancy DeParle as the head of a   new White House office of health reform. He plans a health care summit   of lawmakers, lobbyists and industry on Thursday.  =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
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