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by rayharvey on August 27, 2009
Poor misunderstood Ezekiel J. Emanuel.
Ezekiel, if you don’t know, is the older brother of the statist Rahm Emanuel, and recently Ezekiel got his feelings hurt.
In an interview he just gave the Associated Press, Monday (August 24th), Ezekiel said this:
“I’m completely dumbfounded. I’ve been in academic disputes before, but I never thought I’d be disparaged on Sunday morning talk shows and in the papers, being distorted in ways that can only be described as willful and intentional.”
What Ezekiel Emanuel is referring to here is what that same AP article describes as The sometimes ugly health care debate [which] has dragged Ezekiel Emanuel very reluctantly into the spotlight, as opponents of Obama’s proposed reform have seized on snippets of his past writings to bolster their charge that he and the administration advocate a system where bureaucrats — on what former Gov. Sarah Palin has famously called “death panels” — would play God, ruling on whether ailing Grandma deserves medical care. The accusations have been widely debunked as distortions of Emanuel’s and the administration’s views. Still, they persist, leaving Emanuel both stunned and hurt.
You see, it’s tough being a eugenicist. If you doubt that, just watch Ezekiel squirm like the worm that he is under this historian’s searing testimony:
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 Posted by rayharvey on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 3:23 am
by rayharvey on August 20, 2009
The following audio is clipped from Air America radio. Air America, if you don’t know, is about as far left as it gets, and it is these same people who have recently turned on Barack Obama — in a big way. Why? Because of the scandal nobody in the Mainstream Media (a.k.a. Make Up Media [hat tip GG]) is talking about — yet. Please forward this along.
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Posted by rayharvey on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 3:04 am
by rayharvey on August 17, 2009
Right now, there are roughly 800,000 physicians in the United States of America.
Approximately 25,000 physicians complete their medical training every year.
To keep abreast of current medical demands, the U.S. each year requires about 30,000 new physicians.
Now take 40 million uninsured and dump them into this system, and do you know what you get?
Rationing.
There’s simply no way around it, all democratic-socialist, welfare-statist, wishful-thinking propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Posted by rayharvey on Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 2:36 am
by rayharvey on August 14, 2009
The following letter is from Doctor Max Stanley Chartrand, of Rye, Colorado. It’s longish, but brilliant (even if I don’t agree with every word of it). Please forward it along:
Dear All:
Recently, some of my letters to the editor in papers across the nation have generated requests from people who want to know what they can do to stop the steamroller juggernaut we call ObamaCare. This is offered in response to them and some of you who may not have requested this information. It is my sincere hope that every thinking, breathing, freedom-loving American will step up the plate on this issue and speak with one voice: This, and any variation of it, is bad medicine for America and we want no part of it.
To give you the background you need to be armed with facts that our legislators say they are too busy to analyze, we’ve highlighted some of the 1,018 pages of the bill. There are entire organizations and think tanks who have analyzed this bill down to the nth degree. Some of the sites featuring there work can be found at www.nationalcenter.org, www.myheritage.org/, and www.freedomfirstsociety.org
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Posted by rayharvey on Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 2:46 am
by rayharvey on August 11, 2009
Here’s a brief breakdown of HR-3200 in its own language. This analysis comes from Professor John David Lewis of Duke University:
1. Will the PLAN ration medical care?
This is what the bill says, pages 284-288, SEC. 1151. REDUCING POTENTIALLY PREVENTABLE HOSPITAL READMISSIONS:
(ii) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN READMISSIONS.—For purposes of clause (i), with respect to a hospital, excess readmissions shall not include readmissions for an applicable condition for which there are fewer than a minimum number (as determined by the Secretary) of discharges for such applicable condition for the applicable period and such hospital. and, under “Definitions”:
‘‘(A) APPLICABLE CONDITION.—The term ‘applicable condition’ means, subject to subparagraph (B), a condition or procedure selected by the Secretary . . .
and:
‘‘(E) READMISSION.—The term ‘readmission’ means, in the case of an individual who is discharged from an applicable hospital, the admission of the individual to the same or another applicable hospital within a time period specified by the Secretary from the date of such discharge.
and:
‘‘(6) LIMITATIONS ON REVIEW.—There shall be no administrative or judicial review under section 1869, section 1878, or otherwise of— . . .
‘‘(C) the measures of readmissions . . .
EVALUATION OF THE PASSAGES:
1. This section amends the Social Security Act
2. The government has the power to determine what constitutes an “applicable [medical] condition.”
3. The government has the power to determine who is allowed readmission into a hospital.
4. This determination will be made by statistics: when enough people have been discharged for the same condition, an individual may be readmitted.
5. This is government rationing, pure, simple, and straight up.
6. There can be no judicial review of decisions made here. The Secretary is above the courts.
7. The plan also allows the government to prohibit hospitals from expanding without federal permission: page 317-318.
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 3:26 am
by rayharvey on July 21, 2009
Only Barack evidently doesn’t know it. Quoting his own words:
Obama, June 11: “And so what you’ve got is a situation where, for example, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is famous for some of the best quality and some of the lowest cost. People are healthier coming out of there, they do great.”
Obama, June 24: “Well, I think what’s important is to say to the American People that you should get the best possible care to make you well. And that the measure of the quality of care is not quantity, but whether or not it is making you better. Now, what we’ve seen is that there’s some communities and some health systems that do this very well. Mayo Clinic, a classic example. In Rochester, Minnesota. People go there. They– spend about 20-30 percent less than some other parts of the country, and yet have better outcomes.”
Obama, July 1: “There are some places, like the Mayo Clinic — many of you have heard of — provides outstanding care, some of the best in the world. People fly in from everywhere to go to Mayo Clinic to get treatment. It turns out Mayo provides care much more cheaply than a lot of other health systems, even though it’s better care.”
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 11:35 am
by rayharvey on July 16, 2009
America’s putatively high infant mortality rates are (along with life expectancies) among the most trumpeted healthcare canards going. The purpose is to try to convince you that American medicine is not actually the best medicine in the world but would only be such if the healthcare system in America were nationalized — a move, incidentally, from which America as we know her would almost certainly never recover.
Without a proper context, the statistics on infant mortality, with all their devilish intricacies, are, to say the least, misleading. Quoting Doctor Robert J. Cihak (M.D.), a Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Discovery Institute and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons:
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Posted by rayharvey on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 12:37 am
by rayharvey on May 26, 2009
 Just recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) calculated that Britain, with its arrantly collectivized healthcare system, has “as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care. Twelve percent of specialists surveyed admitted refusing kidney dialysis to patients suffering from kidney failure because of limits on cash. Waiting lists for medical treatment have become so long that there are now ‘waiting lists’ for the waiting list” (Source).
In Canada, before one can receive proper medical care, one must first be referred to a specialist, and the waiting list for something like a gynecological surgery is “4 to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks. Also, Toronto-area hospitals, concerned about lawsuits, ask patients to sign a legal release accepting that while delays in treatment may jeopardize their health, they nevertheless hold the hospital blameless” (Ibid).
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Posted by rayharvey on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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