Stimulus Bureaucracy Coming to a Doc Near You
Reason Magazine points out that the Obama administration is using the Stimulus as a backdoor to begin implementation of universal healthcare. The first step:
One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, 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 (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Because government always knows best. Health care is the most personal of all industries, and treatment options should always be up to a patient and their provide, not some faceless bureaucrat in an office miles of way deciding what is best for “the people” as a collective and not as individuals.
Reason also points out why this is so troubling in light of the stimulus “debate”:
It is backdoor but massively intrusive provisions like this one that make the Obama administration’s “there’s no time to debate” push to silence critics and prevent a thorough analysis of this bill all the more troubling.
