Alert: Nationalizaton of Health Care in Stimulus Bill
Wizbang — Tom Daschle knew the reason why Clinton failed with his socialized medicine is because he actually let the American people in on what he wanted to do. Daschle advised Obama to sneak it in, which is what he's done. Nationalization - and rationing - of health care is in the stimulus bill! Betsy McCaughy of Bloomberg has the details. Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama's stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions ...

Carol Platt Liebau: One More Reason to Hate the Stimulus Bill . . .
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — It's bad for your health. Betsey McCaughrey spells out some of the dangerous details of provisions in the so-called "stimulus" bill that will affect how medicine is practiced in this country: 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: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis .” According to Daschle, doctors have to ...

Bill Slipped Into “Stimulus” Package Allows Federal Government To Monitor Your Medical Care
Say Anything — To make sure your doctor is treating you in a cost-efficient manner. 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 ...

"Stimulus"
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Sweet Jesus: Crap Sandwich Includes Orwellian 'Health' Control
Tammy Bruce — ... I wanted to follow up with the stunning revelation of the extent of Orwellian 'health' Nazism jammed into the Crap Sandwich. There is a strange urgency among the left for this piece of sh** to get passed. Perhaps one of the reasons Barkey and his comrades are pushing to hard for it to go fast is because they wanted us to miss gems like this. Make it your Must Read for the Day and get back on those phones to those zombies in DC and demand they stop this unmitigated disaster. Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan The bill’s health ...

Is Stimulus a Trojan Horse for Health Care Reform?
The Volokh Conspiracy — Are radical reforms of the private health care system buried in the stimulus bill? Betsy McCaughey, whose 1994 cover story in The New Republic helped sink the Clinton Administration's health care reforms, thinks so. In an opinion piece for Bloomberg, she writes: The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States.” 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 ...

The Stimulus Bill Will Give The Feds Access To All Your Medical Records
Say Anything — I know that the term “Orwellian” is an overused term, and comparisons to his novels such as 1984 and Animal Farm tend to be overdone, but this fits Orwell’s grim, gray vision of a nightmare future to a “T”: 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 ...

Stimulus: A Rationed Health Care Trojan Horse
Riehl World View — Currently one of Drudge's one line banners. I don't think this will play well in Peoria. Read it all. Hidden Provisions If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate 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). ...

Goodbye, Founding Fathers - Hello, Tommy Douglas!
small dead animals — Goodbye, Founding Fathers - Hello, Tommy Douglas! Conservaitve bloggers in the US have been chattering about this find in recent hours; 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 ...

Health care rationing for elderly slipped into stimulus
Ace of Spades HQ — Health care rationing for elderly slipped into stimulus Note to democrats: four years from now, boomers=="seniors" ...If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate 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... Of course, everyone looks forward to a debilitating, painful, (and soon to be impoverished,) old age so this is sure to be a real vote getter in the future.

Stimulus Bill Lays Foundation For Socialized Healthcare
Southern Appeal — This is not economic stimulus : Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department. Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH , pdf version). 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 ...

Fearmongering Obama: 'I Am the Eternal Optimist'
JammieWearingFool — ... is optimism, I'd hate to see pessimism. Warning that a failure to act “could turn a crisis into a catastrophe,” Mr. Obama used his presidential platform — a prime-time news conference, the first of his presidency, in the grand setting of the White House East Room — to address head on the concerns about his approach, which has by and large failed to win the Republican support he sought. Meanwhile, if there are any of you still optimistic after watching that sham, mull this over. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without ...

Obama makes Althouse "sound like some kind of disease"
sisu — First_dude_iron_dog  "The Tesoro Iron Dog started on the ice at Big Lake on Sunday, February 8, 2009, as competitors [— including " First Dude" Todd Palin , above —] began their nearly 2,000 mile race across the Alaska wilderness from Big Lake to Nome to Fairbanks." The following day, the Purebred Dogs of Westminster strutted their stuff at Madison Square Garden, even as the Dirty Dogs of partisan warfare Inside the Beltway were picking over a pork barrel bone dubiously dubbed " The Stimulus Package ." Photo by BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News . Makes those of us who are hesitant sound like some kind of disease ," writes Ann ...

Stealth Socialism
Daily Pundit — Bloomberg.com: Opinion 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 ...

Obama Economic Stimulus Bill Health Care Scare - Stealth Provisions Will Ration Senior Care Applying a Cost-Effectiveness Standard for Medicare
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Flap doubts the three GOP Senators (Specter, Collins and Snowe) that signed off on this “COMPROMISE” even realized these health care provisions were in the bill. Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to ...

Alert: Nationalizaton of Health Care in Stimulus Bill
Wizbang — ***Bumped and Updated*** Tom Daschle knew the reason why Clinton failed with his socialized medicine is because he actually let the American people in on what he wanted to do. Daschle advised Obama to sneak it in, which is what he's done. Nationalization - and rationing - of health care is in the stimulus bill! Betsy McCaughy of Bloomberg has the details. Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama's stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to ...

Daschle: Health-Care Reform “Will Not Be Pain Free”
Nice Deb — The must read of the day is former Lieutenant Governor of NY, Betsy McCaughey’s warning about the stealth health care provisions in the Porkulus/Patronage Package AKA Generational Theft Act which is on the verge of being passed in Congress: Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. ...

Thanks to Porkulus, Daschle Will Help Nationalize Healthcare After All
Moonbattery — ... There's more to the Porkzilla abomination than an attempt to bury the economy so deep in debt that our capitalist system can never recover. This bid to establish socialism works much more directly in some respects. For example, disgraced tax cheat Tom Daschle — who was to be in charge of nationalizing the healthcare industry — left his mark on the bill. Writes Betsy McCaughey (page numbers refer to ...

Dems vs. Doctors (and your medical privacy)
Maggie's Farm — We linked the Bloomberg piece this morning describing what the "stimulus" will do to ration care under Medicare. Also in the stimulus will be a federal monitoring of your medical history and treatment - this from our Canadian friend at Small Dead Ducklings: 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 ...

Seniors get screwed on health care in Senate's Spendabus plan (Updated)
Hyscience — ... 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. More at Nice Deb Related: Bloomber.com: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey Other ...

Video: Specter declares that Porkulus needed more time for hearings
Hot Air » Top Picks — Video: Specter declares that Porkulus needed more time for hearings posted at 1:38 pm on February 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Okay … then why didn’t Arlen Specter demand hearings? At the very least, he could have forced more debate by opposing the cloture vote yesterday. Instead, he uses this lame excuse after Bloomberg found an embarrassingly objectionable provision in Porkulus yesterday: Got that? Specter missed this because of a “rush to judgment,” a phrase first made popular by the late Johnnie Cochran in the OJ Simpson murder trial in 1995. It’s no less of a bad excuse here, mainly because ...

Arlen Specter: Stimulus Disgrace
Stop The ACLU — By Maggie M. Thornton President Obama’s stimulus bill just passed the Senate. A few hours before the vote, we began to get a glimpse of the dangerous health care provisions in this bill. [image] This is the lamest “reasoning” I think I’ve ever heard from a Presidential podium. The Democrat party…so extremely incensed about the privacy issues surrounding the War on Terror, would like to have unequivocal access to your health information, your treatments, your medications, your private conversations with your doctors. But, really, this is the least of our health care problems now with Barack Obama as our president. Bloomberg News is reporting that former Senator Tom ...

Summing It Up
Riehl World View — Whatever the hell "it" is. I read a report on Geithner's statement. My sense of that was, he doesn't know, so he's going to fumble around with however many trillions of dollars and hope to figure it out. But then to be fair, that's about the best Bush's people did, too. Our new President is not getting rave reviews from anyone. Gee, I wonder why the market tanked early today? Oh and it looks curiously like he can't be trusted not to take advantage of every opportunity to move a Leftist political agenda forward, either. You might try and decipher this advice if you're financially inclined. WSJ - stimulus bill a return to welfare ...

Old People Will Not Be Stimulated
Classical Values — Old People Will Not Be Stimulated It looks like the Obama administration has found the perfect cure for our medical crisis and our Social Security crisis. Kill off old people . Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama's stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department. ...

Health Care Rationing In The Obama Stimulus Package
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Betsy McCaughey has the goods on the Obama Administration’s efforts to establish a cookie-cutter approach to health care that will entail rationing, especially for seniors who, according to the Administration’s plans, have to be prepared to accept “the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.” In addition, according to the Administration’s policy designs–designs that were written into the language of the stimulus plan by Tom Daschle before his tax cheatin’ heart conspired to include him out of the Administration–we ought to be prepared to accept what Daschle calls “hopeless diagnoses” and as a ...

links for 2009-02-11
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Has Obama's Presidency Already Failed? Why Obama’s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will ...

Health Care Rationing In The Obama Stimulus Package
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Betsy McCaughey has the goods on the Obama Administration's efforts to establish a cookie-cutter approach to health care that will entail rationing, especially for seniors who, according to the Administration's plans, have to be prepared to accept "the conditions that come with age instead of treating them." In addition, according to the Administration's policy designs--designs that were written into the language of the stimulus plan by Tom Daschle before his tax cheatin' heart conspired to include him out of the Administration--we ought to be prepared to accept what Daschle calls "hopeless diagnoses" and as a consequence, "forgo experimental treatments." It isn't often ...

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Please don't hurt us!"
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... story : Denny Even the AP reporting on Obama's double-speak : AP Mixed reviews for Obama : Prairie Why Obama wants control of the census : Fund The shrine of FDR: why the left worships there : NRO U.S. develops ground-based anti-aircraft laser : Prairie Health care rationing for elderly slipped into stimulus : Ace I couldn't say it better : Tiger's Eye Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words : Corner Porkucare: Stimulus bill welcomes socialized medicine : Bloomberg "Please don't hurt us" ads ...

A conservative lie case study
Political Animal — A CONSERVATIVE LIE CASE STUDY.... To paraphrase Twain, a right-wing talking point can travel the media world, while the truth is still getting its pants on. We've seen a classic example over the last 48 hours. On Monday, Bloomberg ran an opinion piece from Betsy McCaughey, a staffer at a conservative think tank who also used to be a Republican Lt. Gov. of New York, attacking the economic stimulus plan. Specifically, McCaughey insisted that the policy would create a "new bureaucracy" called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will "monitor ...

What's Wrong with "Comparative Effectiveness Research"?
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, February 11, 2009 [image] What’s Wrong with “Comparative Effectiveness Research”? [James C. Capretta] Let s set aside the issue of whether funding for a new comparative effectiveness research (CER) program belongs in a stimulus bill Let s instead ask: Is CER a good idea on the merits? In theory, CER is intended to ensure that medical decisions are grounded, whenever possible, in empirical evidence. The government would pay researchers to collect data and conduct experiments to determine what medical procedures actually improve patient health. That seems reasonable enough: Too often, patients receive care for which there is little evidence demonstrating ...

Michele Bachmann: Democrats Ready to Spend Billions... But Ration Health Care
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Believe it or not, Congressional Democrats proposed a radical revision of health care policy as part of their economic "stimulus" bill. “Comparative effectiveness," as it is called, not only lays the groundwork for a full-fledged government take-over of Americans’ health care system, but seriously limits the choices for patients and doctors in pursuing treatment. What it does is put in place a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology that will “monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective.” Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by the government to decide whether you're "too ...

Democrats Ready to Spend Billions, Yet Ration Healthcare (Rep. Michele Bachmann)
Congress Blog — Believe it or not, Congressional Democrats proposed a radical revision of healthcare policy as part of their economic “stimulus” bill.  “Comparative effectiveness,” as it is called, not only lays the groundwork for a full-fledged government take-over of Americans’ healthcare system, but seriously limits the choices for patients and doctors in pursuing treatment. What it does is put in place a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology that will “monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective.” Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by the government to decide whether you’re “too sick” ...

Porkulus alert: The massive expansion in health-care regulation
Hot Air » Top Picks — Porkulus alert: The massive expansion in health-care regulation posted at 2:40 pm on February 12, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported on a stealth provision in Porkulus that would set the stage for federal diktats in patient care .   The bill created a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, a Tom Daschle pet project that would study the effectiveness of patient treatments and set federal rules on which treatments would be allowed by health-care providers throughout the US.  As Betsy McCaughey reported, Daschle’s ...

Linda Bergthold: The Stimulus Bill will destroy American health care
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... , a former Lt. Governor of New York and miscellaneous right wing radio talk show hosts and Fox News from making some outrageous charges about two relatively benign and wonky features of the Stimulus Bill: 1) Funding for modernization of health care information and 2) Funding to do research into what medical treatments work and what do not. ...

Press Ably Picking Apart Bizarre Stimulus Contention
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... As the stimulus package wended its way through Congress this week, a familiar face popped up to get up to some familiar shenanigans. Betsy McCaughey, a Republican former Lieutenant Governor of New York, was suddenly on the Bloomberg website and on TV, issuing dire warnings about the changes that the stimulus package was going to wreak on health care. How? McCaughey claimed that the plan contained health technology language that let the federal government could "monitor" patient care in order to "guide your doctor's decisions." In short, a top-down bureaucracy that would ...

Jim Jaffe: The Obama Health Reforms Begin
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Conservatives, who fortunately have elected not to participate in the debate over the bill, are sounding the alarm in their typical overstated way assuming that anything that can happen will actually occur. They should know better. ...

Exposing a lie on a grander scale
Political Animal — EXPOSING A LIE ON A GRANDER SCALE.... The "award" for the Lie of the Week has some competition, but I have a favorite. Betsy McCaughey, a staffer at a conservative think tank who also used to be a Republican Lt. Gov. of New York, went after the economic stimulus plan on Monday, arguing that it would create a "new bureaucracy" to "monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective." ...

Olbermann Challenged: 'Do You Have the Backbone to Debate Me?'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — A health policy expert who Keith Olbermann eviscerated during Thursday's "Countdown" has officially challenged the disgraceful MSNBC personality to a debate concerning provisions in the soon to be enacted stimulus plan that will negatively impact healthcare in this nation. In a press release issued Friday, Betsy McCaughey stated (h/t TVNewser): If Keith Olbermann of MSNBC could defend the health provisions slipped into the stimulus bill on their merits, he wouldn't be resorting to personal attacks on me. Olbermann calls me a shill funded by the drug industry (2-12-2009). That's not true...If Keith ...

The Democrats' Greatest Hits
The American Spectator — [image] Political Hay The Democrats' Greatest Hits By W. James Antle, III on 2.16.09 @ 6:08AM It shouldn't be terribly surprising that a Democratic president can ram an "emergency" spending package through a lopsidedly Democratic Congress in the midst of a recession, but it's enough to impress the Washington Post . "Twenty-four days into his presidency," staff writers Michael Shear and Alec MacGillis enthused , "Barack Obama recorded... a legislative achievement of the sort that few of his predecessors achieved at any point in their tenure." Swooning aside, they are closer to the mark when they write, "In size and scope, there is almost nothing in ...

Nanny State Health Today: You Cost Too Much To Live
Pirate's Cove — A preview of one of the things that will happen as Obama and the Democrats turn the USA into a socialized/nationalized health care nation. From ye olde Great Britain Last Thursday the Office for National Statistics confirmed that more than 20 patients a day now die from the superbug infections, MRSA and C difficile. NHS practice has been poor. MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcal aureus) is a bacterium that many people carry, safely, in their noses. Yet when people are weakened by sickness, MRSA can invade the bloodstream and kill. In Scandinavia, Holland and Harley Street (three places where MRSA is rare) carriers are screened and treated ...

Nanny State Health Today: You Cost Too Much To Live
Stop The ACLU — A preview of one of the things that will happen as Obama and the Democrats turn the USA into a socialized/nationalized health care nation. From ye olde Great Britain Last Thursday the Office for National Statistics confirmed that more than 20 patients a day now die from the superbug infections, MRSA and C difficile . NHS practice has been poor. MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcal aureus) is a bacterium that many people carry, safely, in their noses. Yet when people are weakened by sickness, MRSA can invade the bloodstream and kill. In Scandinavia, Holland and Harley Street (three places where MRSA is rare) carriers are screened and treated before ...

Betsy McCaughey Slaps Down Olbermann
JammieWearingFool — ... without bothering to check the facts. What a surprise. Here's the original Bloomberg piece that started it all. McCaughey last week challenged the factually-challenged Olbermann to ...

Michele Bachmann: Next Up - Health Care Reform
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — President Obama has not wasted any time since being sworn in as President in pursuing a truly liberal agenda. From the mega-"stimulus" package to a multi-hundred-billion-dollar mortgage plan - The Hill newspaper reports that his next target is health care reform. If the theme continues from his prior legislative accomplishments, we should anticipate a health care plan that spends more of your money and calls for greater government authority over your health care decisions. It's already been reported that the recently signed economic "stimulus" package has laid the groundwork for a greater government stake in our health care system. As a result, I have no reason ...

Two Forms of ID and Your Colonoscopy Report, Please
American Thinker — I am not ideologically opposed to EMRs. When done well, they are much more efficient and easier to read and use. However, it can take months to train an office in EMRs. And if the computers are down, everything stops. But overall, EMRs are a net plus. No, what I'm opposed to is Obama's plan to set up a Ministry of Health Information. In Obama's stimulus bill recently signed into law are provisions ...

Medical malice [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom — [image] If you follow the British papers, then you’re aware of the saga of Jade Goody , a 27 year-old British celebrity, mother of two young sons, now dying of cervical cancer. What you might not realize is how Jade Goody’s imminent death is a cautionary tale of what we Americans can expect with Obama Universal healthcare. Understanding the impact of ObamaCare can begin with simply observing the UK paper, The Sun running a petition campaign, Jade’s Legacy , to lower the age of screening for cervical cancer (pap smear) from 25 to 20 . An American woman unfamiliar with the UK NHS will look at that age range in confusion. Does British medicine really (and ...

Shocker: Obama’s “Stimulus” Bill Created A Bureaucracy That Exists To Ration Your Health Care
Say Anything — I’ve been banging this drum since before the stimulus was even law, but this issue can’t get too little attention. Dr. Erik Novack is a health policy fellow with the Washington, DC-based group Americans for Prosperity (AFP). He believes healthcare plans being drawn up by the Obama administration will only serve to strengthen federal government involvement with vital healthcare decisions. “[T]he so-called ‘stimulus bill’—which was passed by Congress even though not a single member of Congress read the bill—...created a Comparative Effectiveness Research Board.  This is a de facto rationing ...

Cold Chills and Assisted Suicide: Why Every Senior Must Oppose Democrats' Health Care Plans
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... It also establishes a "National Coordinator of Health Information Technology" to monitor the database. This coordinator will have the ability to verify that "doctors are using treatments that are federally approved and cost effective." The goal is to manage costs and "guide" your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). The stimulus bill calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192) . The goal that is ...

Betsy McCaughey and the Health Care Disinformation Game
Daily Kos — One of the worst actors in the Republican and industry effort to kill health care reform is very well practiced at it. Betsy McCaughey, who you see pretty regularly on the cable channels and op-ed pages, got warmed up for her efforts now way back in the Clinton administration: At various stages in her career she has been a banker, a Republican politician, and a staffer at conservative think tanks, but she entered the public stage in the mid-1990s in the guise of a dispassionate, independent researcher who considered it her duty to inform the public about the dire threats it faced. Come to think of it, that is more or less the guise Cheney took in ...

Obama’s ‘Department of Death with Dignity’
CNSNews.com Headlines — The current debate over health care is one of those scenarios that might play well in a science-fiction thriller, but must not be allowed to play out on the backs and over the dead bodies of the uninformed. The intent to create a nationalized health-care system appears more and more like a behind-the-scenes project based on government control over who lives and who dies. I might even suggest that nationalized health care s real purpose is to keep feeding the vultures who prey off the culture of death, instead of keeping Americans healthy. The problem is what is not occurring right now in the public debate. In other words, what remains unstated has many of us extremely concerned. ...

Cornerstone of ObamaCare
Moonbattery — ... Obamunists have argued that when healthcare has been absorbed by Big Government, costs can be kept down by preventing innovation. With that strategy in mind, the regime has turned to the past for the cornerstone of its plan to socialize medicine: ...

Does a "Death Panel" Already Exist? -- By: Andy McCarthy
The Corner on National Review Online — ... H.R. 1 (more commonly known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, even more commonly known as the Stimulus Bill and aptly dubbed the Porkulus Bill) contains a whopping $1.1 billion to fund the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The Council is the brain child of former Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Tom Daschle. Before the Porkulus Bill passed, Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant governor of New York, wrote in detail about the Council's purpose. ...

Remember the last time McCaughey lied?
Political Animal — REMEMBER THE LAST TIME MCCAUGHEY LIED?.... I've been thinking a lot this week about a dust-up from February. It's been largely forgotten, but that, in and of itself, is kind of important. On Monday, February 9, Bloomberg News ran a piece from Betsy McCaughey , which attacked President Obama's stimulus plan. Specifically, McCaughey insisted that the policy would create a "new bureaucracy" called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will "monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost ...