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House to Vote on Repeal of
ObamaCare Next Week Part Three of Four The following appeared at http://powellcenterformedicalethics.blogspot.com/ Last night, H.R. 2 was introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill is scheduled to come up for a vote on January 12th. While much of the rhetoric focuses on the high cost of the bill, there is the urgent matter of the many rationing elements of the bill that may be used to prevent people from obtaining some life-saving health care. Unless this bill is repealed or dramatically altered, the following will occur: 1. Bureaucrats in Washington (the Department of Health and Human Services, based on recommendations by the Independent Payment Advisory Board) will be able to dictate what treatment your doctor or hospital can – and can’t – give you through so-called “quality and efficiency measures.” 2. As Medicare is slashed by billions of dollars, older Americans will be denied the choice of adding their own money, if they wish, to get unrationed insurance – as the Obama health law would empower federal bureaucrats to do. 3. Consumers will be denied the choice of plans offered by insurers who allow their customers to spend what state bureaucrats deem an “excessive or unjustified” amount for their health insurance. Full documentation of these and other rationing elements can be found at http://www.blogger.com/www.nrlc.org/healthcarerationing Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. |