DOCTOR: "I'll Retire When ObamaCare Kicks In"

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DOCTOR: I'll Retire When Reform Kicks In
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 Dr. Says He'll Retire When Health Reform Kicks In

 YPSILANTI, Mich. (WXYZ) - A local doctor says the new health care reform will force him to quit practicing.

Dr. Dave Janda tells Action News that he can't in good conscience deny people excellent medical care so he would be forced to stop seeing patients. He says "The focus in Obamacare is cutting costs by rationing and denying care, which I believe is the most inhumane and unethical means of cutting health care costs."

Dr. Janda is a highly acclaimed orthopedic surgeon specializing in repairing shoulders. He was featured on Oprah for a book he wrote on avoiding injuries, especially in children.

Dr. Janda says the health care reform legislation is based on rationing and denying care. Janda says, "When I'm told by a government entity, a government panel, these are the treatments you can do, this is when you can do them, this is, even, if you can do them, I believe, that by participating in a system like that, you actually cause harm, and you don't help people."

He says he will reconsider quitting if the legislation is changed So that politicians aren't deciding who gets what coverage.


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Is this what you assholes were cheering for?

 

[LurkerNoMore]

 

He's been doing orthopedic surgery for over 25 years.  He will be retiring soon any way.

[Soul Crusher]

He's been doing orthopedic surgery for over 25 years.  He will be retiring soon any way.

Great, so we can force the retirement of experienced people to import third world doctors all so you can get free shit. 

[LurkerNoMore]

Considering he already accepts patients using Medicare and Medicaid, he can't complain about who gets what coverage.

[Soul Crusher]

Considering he already accepts patients using Medicare and Medicaid, he can't complain about who gets what coverage.

Like i said, we are forcing out experienced people and importing third world people who barely speak english just so a bunch of freeloading govt dependent leeches and parasites can get free stuff. 

Just great.   

[LurkerNoMore]

He says he will reconsider quitting if the legislation is changed So that politicians aren't deciding who gets what coverage.


So when did he stop accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients?

[Soul Crusher]

He says he will reconsider quitting if the legislation is changed So that politicians aren't deciding who gets what coverage.


So when did he stop accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients?

WTF are you talking about? 

He says very clearly, and has been something I have said for a year now.  ObamaCare = rationing care according to the govt. 

Someone you mock daily called it a "Death Panel", which it is since care delayed for many will be care denied. 

[LurkerNoMore]

Who decided how Medicaid and Medicare existed?  Politicians.

Kind of contradicts his own statement with the fact he accepts those patients.

[Soul Crusher]

Who decided how Medicaid and Medicare existed?  Politicians.

Kind of contradicts his own statement with the fact he accepts those patients.

No, the politicians dont currently tell docts how to treat medicare patients from what I know and Shoot can educate us on that. 

Under this POFS bill, the govt is setting up unelected panels to ration care and tells docs what and how to do their job.  Look it up. 

[LurkerNoMore]

Did you fail to turn on  your sarcasm meter this morning? 

Or are you to wrapped up your fear mongering to notice?

You need to get some meds.

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Palin's WSJ Op-Ed bullseyes Obamacare - 53 new agencies, panels, and committees
American Thinker ^ | 9/9/9/ | Rick Moran

Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:32:27 PM by American Dream 246

Sarah Palin has a good op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today where she identifies the major problem with Obamacare; whatever congress comes up with will have to be implemented by thousands of regulations written by unelected bureaucrats:

Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He's asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council-an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ."

Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by-dare I say it-death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans. Working through "normal political channels," they made themselves heard, and as a result Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context. But the fact remains that the Democrats' proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters. Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration.

Rep. Mike Pence of the National Republican Conference listed 53 new agencies, panels, and committees that would be created by H.R. 3200:

1. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 123, p. 30)

2. Health Choices Administration (Section 141, p. 41)

3. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 144, p. 47)

4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 163, p. 57)

5. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 164(d), p. 70)

6. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 72)

7. Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Administration Commissioner (Section 206(b), p. 106)

8. Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange (Section 206(c), p. 107)

9. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 207, p. 109)

10. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 208, p. 111)

11. "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 221, p. 116)

12. Ombudsman for "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 221(d), p. 117)

 13. Account for receipts and disbursements for "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 222(b), p. 119)

14. Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191, p. 380)

15. Demonstration program providing reimbursement for "culturally and linguistically appropriate services" (Section 1222, p. 405)

16. Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 438)

17. Accountable Care Organization pilot program (Section 1301, p. 443)

18. Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 462)

19. Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 468)

20. Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 502)

21. Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission (Section 1401(a), p. 505) 22. Patient ombudsman for comparative effectiveness research (Section 1401(a), p. 519) 23. Quality assurance and performance improvement program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1412(b)(1), p. 546) 24. Quality assurance and performance improvement program for nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(2), p. 548) 25. Special focus facility program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1413(a)(3), p. 559) 26. Special focus facility program for nursing facilities (Section 1413(b)(3), p. 565) 27. National independent monitor pilot program for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities (Section 1422, p. 607) 28. Demonstration program for approved teaching health centers with respect to Medicare GME (Section 1502(d), p. 674) 29. Pilot program to develop anti-fraud compliance systems for Medicare providers (Section 1635, p. 716) 30. Medical home pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1722, p. 780) 31. Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund (Section 1802, p. 824) 32. "Identifiable office or program" within CMS to "provide for improved coordination between Medicare and Medicaid in the case of dual eligibles" (Section 1905, p. 852) 33. Public Health Investment Fund (Section 2002, p. 859) 34. Scholarships for service in health professional needs areas (Section 2211, p. 870) 35. Loan repayment program for service in health professional needs areas (Section 2211, p. 873) 36. Program for training medical residents in community-based settings (Section 2214, p. 882) 37. Grant program for training in dentistry programs (Section 2215, p. 887) 38. Public Health Workforce Corps (Section 2231, p. 898) 39. Public health workforce scholarship program (Section 2231, p. 900) 40. Public health workforce loan forgiveness program (Section 2231, p. 904) 41. Grant program for innovations in interdisciplinary care (Section 2252, p. 917) 42. Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment (Section 2261, p. 920) 43. Prevention and Wellness Trust (Section 2301, p. 932) 44. Clinical Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 941) 45. Community Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 947) 46. Grant program for community prevention and wellness research (Section 2301, p. 950) 47. Grant program for community prevention and wellness services (Section 2301, p. 951) 48. Grant program for public health infrastructure (Section 2301, p. 955) 49. Center for Quality Improvement (Section 2401, p. 965) 50. Assistant Secretary for Health Information (Section 2402, p. 972) 51. Grant program to support the operation of school-based health clinics (Section 2511, p. 993) 52. National Medical Device Registry (Section 2521, p. 1001) 53. Grants for labor-management programs for nursing training (Section 2531, p. 1008)

To Obama, this represents making health care delivery "more efficient."

[LurkerNoMore]

When I got to the words Sarah Palin, I stopped reading.

[Soul Crusher]

Fine, keep yourself in the dark.  The list of unelected panels that are being set up under this mess was generated from Cong. Mike Pence.

[Soul Crusher]

How about this Lurker?
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Obamacare to Detriment of Everyone’s Health
Health Care > Obama Plan

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Written By: Peter Ferrara
Publication date: 01/14/2010
Publisher: The Boston Herald

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Congressional Democrats are rushing to get their historic health care overhaul legislation passed before all the surprises in the bill are discovered and public opposition to it becomes overwhelming. But in a democracy aren’t elected representatives supposed to listen to the voters rather than evade them?

Seniors turned against the bill long ago, for good reason. Over the first 10 years of full implementation, the bill provides for an unprecedented $800 billion in cuts to Medicare. That is one of the main reasons the Congressional Budget Office scores the bill as deficit neutral. Another is that the bill includes close to $1 trillion in increased taxes over the first full 10 years.

More than $100 billion in the Medicare cuts are to Medicare Advantage, the option nearly one-fourth of all seniors have chosen to supplement their Medicare benefits, provided by private insurers.

The legislation also would establish an Independent Medicare Advisory Commission, a panel of unelected bureaucrats with the power to adopt still more Medicare cuts. This commission also would have rationing powers to refuse medical treatments your doctor believes would work best for you, and substitute other procedures it decides are less costly.

The case of Hays vs. Sebelius, decided just before Christmas, provides an example. Ilene Hays, a Medicare Part B beneficiary, had been taking the prescription drug DuoNeb for four years to control pulmonary disease. Though that drug regimen worked well for her, the Medicare bureaucracy decided it would pay only for a cheaper treatment.

Hays sued, claiming Medicare does not have the authority to overrule her doctor. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, concluding that the secretary of Health and Human Services and the Medicare bureaucracy were attempting an end-run around the law.

The pending health care legislation would not only grant this authority to Medicare staffers, it would eliminate the right of patients like Hays to sue the government.

The bill would sharply increase taxes on the drug coverage some employers provide to their retired employees, and the resulting increased costs must be reported as a liability on their financial statements. Many, if not all, companies would drop such coverage.

Moving to the other end of the age spectrum, workers under 30 would find their premiums soaring because it would be illegal for insurers to charge them the much lower premiums that reflect their much lower average health costs. Moreover, the bill would require young workers to buy insurance with these soaring premiums or pay tax penalties - even workers who otherwise pay no income tax because they do not earn enough.

The best Congress could do for Americans young and old would be to kill this big-government takeover of health care and start over with reforms that grant more power to the people rather than to the government.

Peter Ferrara is a senior policy adviser on health care at the Heartland Institute.
See more articles by Peter Ferrara

[LurkerNoMore]

How about Cliff Notes?

[Soul Crusher]

How about Cliff Notes?

how about you take 3 minutes to read the article that explains the unelected boards being set up to ration care? 

[BM OUT]

But arent they cutting medicare payments?If doctors get cut to the point where they cant get paid enough to make it worthwhile what can they do?Can they refuse to take medicare patients?I know Wall greens is going to refuse to take on any more medicare patients,can doctors do the same?

[drkaje]

But arent they cutting medicare payments?If doctors get cut to the point where they cant get paid enough to make it worthwhile what can they do?Can they refuse to take medicare patients?I know Wall greens is going to refuse to take on any more medicare patients,can doctors do the same?

Apparently doctors cannot.

SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.

Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.

(2) REQUIREMENT.—All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

(3) APPOINTMENT.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(4) ACTIVE DUTY.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training.

(5) WARRANT OFFICERS.—Warrant officers may be appointed to the Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service.

(b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO THE REGULAR CORPS.—Effective on the date of enactment of the Affordable Health Choices Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps.

(c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.—

(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.

(2) USES.—The Ready Reserve Corps shall—

(A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps;

(B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel;

(C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and

(D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 399SS) to improve access to health services.

(d) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to the Office of the Surgeon General for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Funds appropriated under this subsection shall be used for recruitment and training of Commissioned Corps Officers.