CHILLING Legislation Hiding in the So-Called "Stimulus" Bill

Betsy McCaughey at Bloomberg has actually been reading the stimulus bill! readthestimulus.org says it is 1588 pages! And with Obama out there trying to convince us we are headed for the 1930's depression if we don't act quickly passing this 1588 page bill, it would be easy to sneak in legislation unnoticed. Like a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, that will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions applying a cost-effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council. Ms. McCaughey tells us The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in a 2008 book by Tom Daschle, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis”. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases for the elderly. Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free”. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.

Chilling language reminiscent of the Hitler era! Very interesting to note how it was prophesied by Francis Schaeffer 35 years ago when he warned about the consequences of legalizing abortion. He said that devaluing human life prior to birth would quickly usher in the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia which is the devaluation of life at the end of life. We've seen the assisted suicides; we've even seen euthanasia of sorts as in the case of Terri Schiavo, when she was denied food and water against the will of her parents. Now the almighty government, that so many Obama followers wished would supply their free health-care, will deny treatment to those individuals it deems less productive. Many would scoff at the idea that this could happen in our country. They would be foolish!

Ms. McCaughey also tells us that hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”