Conservative group warns on healthcare
Opponents of Democrats' healthcare proposals today launched a $1 million TV ad that asserts that President Obama and his allies are on the path to more government control and less patient choice.
The ad from the Conservatives for Patients' Rights Action Fund says that a provision in the $787 billion economic stimulus package to measure the effectiveness of care and treatment would copy national health plans in Canada and Britain.
The spot then features opponents of the government health plans in those countries warning of patients losing their choice of doctors, and some actually dying as they wait for care.
The ad ends with the announcer urging viewers to call Congress "you won't trade your doctor for a national board of bureaucrats."
In the budget outline they plan to pass this week, Obama's Democratic allies in Congress plan a parliamentary maneuver that would make it easier to pass a healthcare overhaul by requiring only a simple majority vote.
Also, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee announced this afternoon that a working group will hold a hearing on Tuesday about the lessons learned in the states, specifically on covering residents.
Those scheduled to testify include Jon Kingsdale, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector; Eileen McAnneny, senior vice-president of Associated Industries of Massachusetts; Susan Besio, director of the state Office of Vermont Health Access; and Barry Chen, board member of the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care.
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This is more of the same misleading propaganda used so often by the American right to assault honest citizens.
The maligned provision is intended to be a beneficial outcome of the push towards the use of electronic records. This way, the most rural doctor can have access to the latest research and relevant treatment data for their patients.
The right is so blinded by their hatred they are trying yet again to convince Americans to ignore their own best interests
Is this government control health care system is without any bureaucratic intervention and political tussling if and during a life threatening situation which can cause the life of a patient in waiting? The thought of a patient lying dying while politicians fight over a bureaucracy decision is scary.
Purely misleading common people and twisting the facts. Look at who is sponsoringthe ads, the money making insurances who fear they profs All the large medical societies and every sensible doctor supports the need to have comparitive reasearch available to doctors so that they will dicuss with patients which is what Obama has repeatedly said " No one will tell doctors what to do, they will have useful information available to make decisions." Look carefully, who is objecting and who is funding these protests, the big influential insur who give millions to their excecutives. Wonder why there was never an uproar for their tens of millions of dollars CEO packages
@skmj: “The thought of a patient lying dying while politicians fight over a bureaucracy decision is scary.”
No scarier than a patient dying while doctors fight health insurance companies to get permission for treatment. Or patients dying because they have no health insurance.
If you want to know what the health care plan will look like, look at Medicare. That is a government run medical insurance program. Everyone knows someone on it, and most people get pretty good service.
follow where the insurance money is going and you will probably find out who is stalling the changes
PROVIDING EVERY AMERICAN WITH A GOVERNMENT OR NOW RARE STABLE PRIVATE SECTOR JOB WITH GREAT BENEFITS IS IMPOSSIBLE. NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE THEY ARE THE CHOSEN FEW! The vast majority of middle class Americans cannot keep pace with the rising cost of all of the essentials. Unfortunately for the millions falling through the cracks and unable to pay the colosal cost for "legitimate" private health insurance, they have made a choice and sadly are paying the dire consequences. Untreated illness in thousands of its deadly forms leads to horrific suffering and premature death for the uninshured.
# 4 Jo
You really want change huh! good luck or enjoy it no matter where it leads to.In Europe there aren't that many laws or bundle of health care laws that could screw you around until your life is on the line.
America does the best thing after having tried everything else; we have tried privatized healthcare, and it doesn't work for the majority of us. Now it's the time to have single-payer healthcare in this country.
I have Medicare.
I can see any doctor I want, even without referrals. Which means I have the choice the private insurers do not offer and will never offer.
fbenjul
Madison, WI.
AMERICANS DO NOT WANT A GOVERMENT RUN HEALTH CARE
PLAN.AND I AM ONE OF THEM. WHAT KIND IT IS , OR WHAT IT CONTAINS, IS NOT AN ISSUE. WHEN WE DON`T WANT ANY KIND...
A PETITION NEEDS TO BE STARTED RIGHT NOW, TO REMOVE JOHN
KERRY FROM OFFICE...NOTHING HAS TO WAIT FOR ELECTIONS,
IT CAN BE MANDATED, BY PETITION...RIGHT NOW !!!