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March 12, 2010
Obama: Good for me but not for thee
Topics: Political News and commentariesApparently, when it comes to his own health, Barack Obama doesn't mind those "unnecessary" expensive medical tests. He just wants the rest of us to have less. Good thing his physician didn't have to check with the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (what some refer to as a death panel) already funded under H.R. 1 (Porkulus - more commonly known as the Recovery and Reinvestment Act), like his health care plan wants our physicians to have to be governed by.
As Charles Krauthammer has noted, Barack Obama's Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research was sold as simply government helping doctors choose the best treatments. But there are dozens of medical journal review articles that do just that. The real purpose of the FCCCER is ultimately to establish official criteria for denying reimbursement to less favored (because presumably less effective) treatments -- precisely the triage done by the NICE committee in Britain, the Orwellian body that once blocked access to a certain expensive anti-blindness drug until you went blind in one eye.
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Posted by Richard at March 12, 2010 7:27 AM
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