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August 16, 2009
A Death Panel "Equivalent" Already Exists
Topics: Political News and commentariesDan Spencer poses it as a question, but in fact, that's just a teaser. Because Obama's "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research" ("CER"), which was stealthily included in the Obama boondoggle stimulus -- one of those bills the Democrats passed without anyone having a chance to read it, is, as Joseph Ashby points out at American Thinker, nothing less than the equivalent of a death panel.
Dan writes reservingly:
[...] According to George Will, the draft report on the so-called stimulus bill states the CER will identify medical "items, procedures, and interventions" that it deems insufficiently effective or excessively expensive. They "will no longer be prescribed" by federal health programs.Read it all.[...] Is the CER a stalking horse for the so-called "death panels." With more than a quarter of Medicare expenses spent on the last year of life, one has to wonder. One has to wonder even more when the controversial Ezekiel J. Emanuel, one of those "deadly doctors," is included as a member.
As Ashby reminds us in his piece (link above), ultimately it was Obama himself, in answer to a question on his ABC News infomercial, who said that payment determination cannot be influenced by a person's spirit and "that at least we (the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research) can let doctors know and your mom know that...this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."
Posted by Richard at August 16, 2009 9:45 PM
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