(NaturalNews) The new $800 billion economic stimulus bill contains some striking new "Big Brother" health care language that should give pause to all freedom-loving Americans. For starters, the bill requires the electronic tracking of the medical records of all Americans. All your private medical data will be stored in a government database, including your history of disease, pharmaceutical treatments, surgeries and even emergency room visits.
How would you like the government knowing all the details about your
drug rehab? Or alcoholism
treatments? Abortion? Sexually-transmitted
disease diagnosis? Pregnancy status? Blood test results?
But it gets even more interesting than that: Under the new provisions found in the bill,
all U.S. doctors will now be stripped of autonomy and forced to follow the medical treatment guidelines dictated by the government.
This news should rock the medical world (once they truly understand it). It means doctors can no longer make their own decisions about patients' needs or treatment protocols. From now on, all
health care decisions will be centrally planned by a dictatorial,
Big Brother health care authority in the federal government.
How to turn doctors into sheeple
As Bloomberg.com reports (
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey...), Tom Daschle was one of the architects of this plan, and he says that doctors "have to learn to operate less like solo practitioners."
Any
doctor that deviates from that plan would be penalized by the government. That means, for example, that a local doctor who knows the patient and his family, and who is aware of specific local circumstances affecting that patient will no longer be able to apply any of that knowledge in treating the patient. All treatments will be dictated from the government, obliterating the whole point of allowing doctors to operate with some degree of autonomy in the first place.
Effectively,
this bill transforms the entire U.S. medical profession into nothing more than pill-pushing puppets. It wipes out the intelligence of a local doctor and replaces it with the stupidity of Big Government.
If the government says all expectant mothers must be screened for depression and put on antidepressant
drugs, then all the doctors have to play along and do that if they don't want to be fined or have their medical licenses taken away. If the government says
nutritional supplements are dangerous and cannot be recommended to
patients, then all doctors must remain silent and avoid telling patients the truth about helpful nutritional
supplements. Whatever the government dictates must now be mirrored by all practicing doctors.
And don't forget: The U.S. government is largely controlled by the pharmaceutical
companies, and that means these
health care dictates are almost certain to emphasize pharmaceutical treatments, disease "screening" and disease mongering provisions designed to sell more drugs. You can count on there being increased requirements for vaccinations (HPV vaccines, too) and mental health screenings (psychiatric drugs, anyone?).
Communism is alive and well in America's health care system
Americans asked for health care, but what they got was
Health Communism. There is absolutely no reason to believe that a centrally-controlled government body has any ability to make good health care decisions for individual patients across
America. There is also no reason to believe the U.S. government will safeguard patient medical data or even respect the privacy of patients. This is the same government, after all, that has been caught routinely
spying on its own citizens by tapping phone lines, emails, faxes and internet traffic.
If anything, the U.S. government has proven itself over the past few years to be
the enemy of the American people on the issue of health care. Just look at the actions of the FDA in censoring
nutritional supplement health claims (
http://www.naturalnews.com/019366.html), or the FTC in assaulting herbal product companies (
http://www.naturalnews.com/025303.html). This government is clearly dead set against health care in America, and the more we put government in charge of making health care decisions, the worse the outcome is going to be.
Obama cried "catastrophe" in urging lawmakers to pass this
economic stimulus bill. It's funny how fear is now being used to pass every trillion-dollar spending scandal in Washington these days. That's one thing the government learned very well from 9/11 -
fear sells. And it sold Congress on this stimulus bill, too.
But in terms of health care, the only thing this bill is going to stimulate is more disease, more dead Americans and more profits for
Big Pharma. There's nothing in the bill about ending
FDA censorship, or teaching the public about
nutrition, or banning pharmaceutical advertising on television. All this bill has accomplished is to spend Americans ever more quickly into financial destitution and medical desperation. It is one of the final nails in the coffin of American prosperity.
From now on, America will largely be defined by disease and debt, and the
Obama administration apparently has no answer to either one.
Watch out, folks. The government is here to save us.
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