Healthcare Rationing on its way

[DrLeftover]

Combined with the continuing recommendations that fewer tests be done by the Fed.



The only message is: rationing is coming, get used to it.

Doctor Panels Recommend Fewer Tests for Patients



In a move likely to alter treatment standards in hospitals and doctors’ offices nationwide, a group of nine medical specialty boards plans to recommend on Wednesday that doctors perform 45 common tests and procedures less often, and to urge patients to question these services if they are offered. Eight other specialty boards are preparing to follow suit with additional lists of procedures their members should perform far less often.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/h...routine-tests.html?_r=3&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065





Less Chemo



http://news.yahoo.com/doctors-call-end-five-cancer-tests-treatments-041258011.html

 

[Temerit]

Cmon doc. Get real.

 

[DrLeftover]

OK, you explain it.





And, oh, by the way, the IRS is the chosen enforcement method to make sure you participate.

The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.

The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatc...-diverted-500m-to-irs-to-implement-health-law

 

[Katatonia]

Because this is totally constitutional. =\

 

[Temerit]

Because this is totally constitutional. =\

What are you saying?

 

[Katatonia]

What are you saying?

Uh, well, that it's not constitutional.



Whatever; hopefully this will be his only term.

 

[DrLeftover]

Well. I wouldn't hang my hat on that.



(Pardon a brief, more or less objective, political analysis.)



Right now, as of the last compilation of national polls, the race is still Mr. Obama's to lose.



Yes, he is fully capable of doing so, because a lot is riding on the Court's decision on Healthcare, the general Economy- especially fuel prices, and the ongoing dust up with both Iran and North Korea.



If Mr. Obama can pull his own backsides out of those fires by October and do so with some style, he's in no matter what Mr. Romney does. And with the Court's decision due in June, even if it rules against the healthcare law, or parts thereof, the Administration has time to do some damage control, and even introduce a new version of the bill, before November.



In short. The 2012 election is O's to loose, not R's to win.



(we now return you to the healthcare thread already in progress)

 

[Temerit]

Why the hell would a lot be riding on fuel prices? The administration has absolutely no control over the global oil market.

 

[DrLeftover]

Of course it doesn't.



And tapping into the strategic reserve is a pointless exercise.



It is all the public's perception and an emotional response based on media coverage. Which is why the President, past and present, does it.



And you know it.

 

[Temerit]

Yeah, but it's sad.

 

[DrLeftover]

I agree.

 

[Scarlet Rose]

Uh, well, that it's not constitutional.

I have read this response of yours a few times now and it never fails to make me chuckle.



As for the thread topic, this is not something which strikes me as being very problematic at all. After quickly scanning your NYT source, it seems that these propositions make a lot of sense.

The recommendations[font=georgia,] represent an unusually frank acknowledgment by physicians that many profitable tests and procedures are performed unnecessarily and may harm patients. By some estimates, unnecessary treatment constitutes one-third of medical spending in the United States.

 

[Katatonia]

I have read this response of yours a few times now and it never fails to make me chuckle.

What's so funny about unconstitutionalism? You want the government to force you to sign a business contract?

 

[Scarlet Rose]

What's so funny about unconstitutionalism? You want the government to force you to sign a business contract?

No, you misunderstand. What amused me was that you needed to clarify that you were asserting the healthcare reform is unconstitutional.