What exactly am I misinformed about? I'll repost the article below about the clause hidden in the bill regarding treatment for elderly and the unhealthy. Am I misinformed about what is being taught in public schools? The person who made the post about funding for public schools being taken away was (I think) joking, and while I realize that it's not really feasible at all, I am very upset about how my education tax dollars are being spent. For everyone one person I know who genuinely NEED foodstamps, and public assistance, I know ten others abusing the system. Because the caseworkers want it that way. Couldnt cut out their job security, could they?
I'm not against public assistance, I'm against the way it's done in this country. In Germany as far back as the 70s, their people on public assistance reported to "work" everyday, and work they did, picking up trash on the interstates and doing other cleaning in public areas. Only then did they get their checks.
The first step, IMO, in welfare reform is mandatory drug testing. Once a month YOU go to PICK UP your check (no sense wasting postage mailing them) and at the point submit to a urine test. If you pass, you get your money. If you fail, sorry for your luck. That step alone would cut this country's welfare burden in half.
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Reposted article...
> We elected the politicians passing these bills. Time to vote some of them
> out of office.
>
> And, folks ~ This is not the only hidden surprise in this 600 page bill.
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> The stimulus pork bill which passed in the House last week and the Senate,
> contains the nationalization of health care, the computerization of
> everybody's health records, and rationing of medical care for seasoned
> citizens. If you're a seasoned citizen and you go to the doctor, you have
> an ailment of some kind, the doctor will do a test. The doctor will then
> consult your medical records. The doctor will then consult federal
> guidelines to find out if you are to be treated. And if the cost of your
> treatment as a seasoned citizen is deemed by the government to be too
> expensive based on how much longer you have to live, then you don't get
> treated. The architect of this is one Tom Daschle from South Dakota , and
> he says much like Governor Dick Lamm of Colorado , (paraphrasing) "Old
> people, you gotta come to grips with your circumstances, you gotta come to
> grips with your diagnosis and understand we're all going to die sometime and
> it's your turn." This is in the Senate stimulus bill. And members of
> Congress are exempt from all this. They have their own health care plan...
> the one Obama promised he wanted for all of us. Well, that's not what we're
> getting.
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> Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: by Betsy McCaughey
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> Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President
> Barack
> <
http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Barack+Obama&site=wnews&client=wnews&p
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> wnnis&sort=date
:S:d1> Obama's stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax
> breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
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> Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions
> slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom
> <
http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Tom+Daschle&site=wnews&client=wnews&pr
> oxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=w
> nnis&sort=date
:S:d1> Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the
> Health and Human Services Department.
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> Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are
> dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH
> <
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.+1:> , pdf version).
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> The bill's health rules will affect "every individual in the United States "
> (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a
> federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily
> transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests
> and errors.
>
> But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of
> Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your
> doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost
> effective. The goal is to reduce costs and "guide" your doctor's decisions
> (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to
> what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, "Critical:
> <
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-What-About-Health-Care-Crisis/dp/0312383010/
> ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234118804&sr=8-1> What We Can Do About
> the Health-Care Crisis." According to Daschle, doctors have to give up
> autonomy and "learn to operate less like solo practitioners."
>
> Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but
> enforcing uniformity goes too far.
>
> New Penalties
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> Hospitals and doctors that are not "meaningful users" of the new system will
> face penalties. "Meaningful user" isn't defined in the bill. That will be
> left to the HHS <
http://www.hhs.gov/> secretary, who will be empowered to
> impose "more stringent measures of meaningful use over time" (511, 518,
> 540-541)
>
> What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically
> delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an
> experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle
> proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the "tough" decisions
> elected politicians won't make.
>
> The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council
> for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle's book
> explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and
> technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for
> being more willing to accept "hopeless diagnoses" and "forgo experimental
> treatments," and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the
> health-care system.
>
> Elderly Hardest Hit
>
> Daschle says health-care reform "will not be pain free." Seniors should be
> more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating
> them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
>
> Medicare <
http://www.medicare.gov/> now pays for treatments deemed safe and
> effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost-
> effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).
>
> The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle's
> book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides
> the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to
> benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than
> treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.
>
> In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular
> degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could
> get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of
> public protests before the board reversed its decision.
>
> Hidden Provisions
>
> If the Obama administration's economic stimulus bill passes the Senate
> <
http://www.senate.gov/> in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face
> similar rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in
> younger years and sacrifice later.
>
> The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and
> nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get
> paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the
> Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181).
>
> Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle
> supported the Clinton administration's health-care overhaul in 1994, and
> attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that
> the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition.
> "If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be
> it," he said. "The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol."
>
>
> More Scrutiny Needed
>
> President Obama called it "inexcusable and irresponsible" for senators to
> delay passing the stimulus bill. In truth, this bill needs more scrutiny.
>
> The health-care industry is the largest employer in the U.S. It produces
> almost 17 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Yet the bill
> treats health care the way European governments do: as a cost problem
> instead of a growth industry. Imagine limiting growth and innovation in the
> electronics or auto industry during this downturn. This stimulus is
> dangerous to your health and the economy.
>
> (Betsy
> <
http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Betsy+McCaughey&site=wnews&client=wnew
> s&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfiel
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:S:d1> McCaughey is former lieutenant governor of New
> York and is an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The opinions
> expressed are her own.)
>
> To contact the writer of this column: Betsy McCaughey at
[email protected]
