http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/the_biggest_obamacare_whopper_of_all.html

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Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring "health-care quality," which of course could mean anything.

"The powers given to the secretary are so broad, he or she could literally dictate how all physicians nationwide practice medicine," warns Congressman Phil Gingrey (R. Georgia), himself a physician. Gingrey is sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 1311(h)(1)(B). Otherwise, he says, the HHS secretary - a Washington bureaucrat with no medical training - could, for example, bar doctors from doing routine mammogram screenings until female patients turn 50. In short, the federal government will be calling the shots on what patients get.
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Total dislike here.

What ceases to amaze me is the low-information v**ers, and liberals, undying faith in the government, and that they're willing to put their healthcare, and literally their life, in the government's hands. A government that is so inept, incompetent, corrupt, and could care less about meeting any budget, you're going to trust with your healthcare, or your life?! A government which has NEVER run an organization/program efficiently! A government that literally does not care diddly squat about you...you're simply a number!

Does the current healthcare industry need reforming? Yes, it does, but a lot of the current problems comes from too much government intervention. Get the government out of it, allow crossing state lines, implement healthcare savings accounts, and other good ideas that Congressman Price (TX) has suggested. The government WILL NEVER operate as efficiently and more economically than the private sector. The private sector will provide far more healthcare benefits, at a cheaper price, than the government ever will.

Oh, and you lefties out there that love to sue for malpractice, it's going to be interesting under Obummercare as to whether you're going to be allowed to sue the government for botched healthcare decisions.

This government is simply turning the population into a bunch of brain-washed lemmings, who are marching lock-step towards the cliff. God help us in 2014, our last chance to turn it around.

Total dislike here.

What ceases to amaze me is the low-information v**ers, and liberals, undying faith in the government, and that they're willing to put their healthcare, and literally their life, in the government's hands. A government that is so inept, incompetent, corrupt, and could care less about meeting any budget, you're going to trust with your healthcare, or your life?! A government which has NEVER run an organization/program efficiently! A government that literally does not care diddly squat about you...you're simply a number!

It's practically impossible to sue a doctor with Malpractice Insurance anyways. Even if it goes through the courts in the end , a federal investigation ensues that is almost always in the doctors favor. With government run healthcare, well, a snowballs chance in hell comes to mind.
Does the current healthcare industry need reforming? Yes, it does, but a lot of the current problems comes from too much government intervention. Get the government out of it, allow crossing state lines, implement healthcare savings accounts, and other good ideas that Congressman Price (TX) has suggested. The government WILL NEVER operate as efficiently and more economically than the private sector. The private sector will provide far more healthcare benefits, at a cheaper price, than the government ever will.

Oh, and you lefties out there that love to sue for malpractice, it's going to be interesting under Obummercare as to whether you're going to be allowed to sue the government for botched healthcare decisions.

This government is simply turning the population into a bunch of brain-washed lemmings, who are marching lock-step towards the cliff. God help us in 2014, our last chance to turn it around.

Total dislike here.

What ceases to amaze me is the low-information v**ers, and liberals, undying faith in the government, and that they're willing to put their healthcare, and literally their life, in the government's hands. A government that is so inept, incompetent, corrupt, and could care less about meeting any budget, you're going to trust with your healthcare, or your life?! A government which has NEVER run an organization/program efficiently! A government that literally does not care diddly squat about you...you're simply a number!

It's practically impossible to sue a doctor with Malpractice Insurance anyways. Even if it goes through the courts in the end , a federal investigation ensues that is almost always in the doctors favor. With government run healthcare, well, a snowballs chance in hell comes to mind.
Does the current healthcare industry need reforming? Yes, it does, but a lot of the current problems comes from too much government intervention. Get the government out of it, allow crossing state lines, implement healthcare savings accounts, and other good ideas that Congressman Price (TX) has suggested. The government WILL NEVER operate as efficiently and more economically than the private sector. The private sector will provide far more healthcare benefits, at a cheaper price, than the government ever will.

Oh, and you lefties out there that love to sue for malpractice, it's going to be interesting under Obummercare as to whether you're going to be allowed to sue the government for botched healthcare decisions.

This government is simply turning the population into a bunch of brain-washed lemmings, who are marching lock-step towards the cliff. God help us in 2014, our last chance to turn it around.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/the_biggest_obamacare_whopper_of_all.html

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Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring "health-care quality," which of course could mean anything.

"The powers given to the secretary are so broad, he or she could literally dictate how all physicians nationwide practice medicine," warns Congressman Phil Gingrey (R. Georgia), himself a physician. Gingrey is sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 1311(h)(1)(B). Otherwise, he says, the HHS secretary - a Washington bureaucrat with no medical training - could, for example, bar doctors from doing routine mammogram screenings until female patients turn 50. In short, the federal government will be calling the shots on what patients get.
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You got that from this....(h) QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.—

(1) ENHANCING PATIENT SAFETY.—Beginning on January 1, 2015, a qualified health plan may contract with—

(A) a hospital with greater than 50 beds only if such hospital—

(i) utilizes a patient safety evaluation system as described in part C of title IX of the Public Health Service Act; and

(ii) implements a mechanism to ensure that each patient receives a comprehensive program for hospital discharge that includes patient-centered education and counseling, comprehensive discharge planning, and post discharge reinforcement by an appropriate health care professional; or

(B) a health care provider only if such provider implements such mechanisms to improve health care quality as the Secretary may by regulation require.

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Have you ever worked at a job that has federal regulations re the specific specialty you practice? If not, you cannot know what it is like until you have worked at same. And, I'd like to know what Sebilius knows about health care that qualifies her to determine "mechanisms and quality care" that the pros don't know.

I've dealt l LOT with these "regulators". Trust me ....... most of them don't know squat about the profession, but a LOT about ordering people about and wasting time.

The regulators have "consultants" who are in the Biz. Letting health care providers police themselves has not worked. Hospital acquired infections, medical errors and skyrocketing costs are the result. These are at an all time high. In the 21st century there should be 0. Today, you'll spend more time with admissions than with medical staff. Nurses spend more time charting than they do on patient care. Hospital "standards" are set by lawyers not Doctors. All care by a physician is "assumed" to meet standards set by the AMA. Most hospitals do not review physician care unless a complaint is made. The review is proctored by lawyers.
The ACA is far from perfect but it's a start. SOMETHING had to be done and this is the first time anything has been seriously addressed. Even if repubs. manage to get it repealed they will HAVE to replace it. So at the end of the day, somebody got something done. Too bad the congress can't say the same.

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I won't argue about the issue because I have been away from it for some years now, but at that time, the hospitals I knew about had infection control departments and continuing education, etc.

We did have, before Obama, the best medical treatment in the entire world. When the dollar is as damaged as ours is, thanks to the Fed. Reserve and Congress, and when medical law suits are at an all time high, I am not convinced medical care is all that expensive. Expensive, yes, but not out of the ball park. There are people who earn their living suing doctors and hospitals or threatening to do so then "settling". This costs ALL OF US, including the insurance companies who insure these people.

And please do not tell me about the superior care in countries who don't have our sorry stats - the way to do that is either not take a dying patient, then you won't have his death on your stats, or don't accept dangerous pregnancies, or don't do serious surgeries. THAT is how great stats are gathered. We don't need that in the US, and to our credit, that isn't how we have done medical care in the past ........ I think you may want to start watching for that in the near future here in the US with Obamacare.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/the_biggest_obamacare_whopper_of_all.html

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Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring "health-care quality," which of course could mean anything.

"The powers given to the secretary are so broad, he or she could literally dictate how all physicians nationwide practice medicine," warns Congressman Phil Gingrey (R. Georgia), himself a physician. Gingrey is sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 1311(h)(1)(B). Otherwise, he says, the HHS secretary - a Washington bureaucrat with no medical training - could, for example, bar doctors from doing routine mammogram screenings until female patients turn 50. In short, the federal government will be calling the shots on what patients get.
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Please indicate your like or dislike of the type legislation that gives government control over your health care.