From Stark
Rick Santorum, a former GOP Senator from Pennsylvania, announced his presidential candidacy Monday, June 6.
Santorum’s staunch right-to-life, anti-abortion positions have made him popular with social conservatives, and his announcement speech indicated he wants to reach out to voters concerned with economic issues and issues of federal power.
He denounced President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, and repeated the common theme that these reforms will reduce patient “choices.”
(Every time I read that statement, I wonder what choices they are talking about. Maybe that will become clear at some point.)
…The new law creates the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to advance and fund research comparative effectiveness research (CER).
CER can be beneficial if used solely to inform doctors and patients to guide decision-making. However, the new law lays the groundwork for bureaucrats to use CER in Medicare to make coverage decisions and otherwise compel physicians to treat patients not according to what is best for the individual but according to what the evidence shows is best in most cases….
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/06/03/new-study-reveals-obamacares-threats-to-the-economy-%e2%80%94-and-medicine-as-we-know-it/
Anytime bureaucrats are placed between you the individual and your doctor, your choices will be limited.
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Oh heavens! Let’s not let the “best system in the world” be run by disinterested bureaucrats, when we’ve got insurance company bureaucrats that will do it for, say, 20% off the top.
Going from an insurance run screwed up system to a government run screwed up system still gives you a screwed up system. But what will really be a mess is what coming; too much of both!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
We all wonder what the hello they’re talking about.
They rattle off the same diatribe reading from the exact same script and why?,
it collects the cash they need from their fan base.
If they had any answers – Romney targets job numbers! – the stats would have improved the day they took the house.
Instead they wheedle over their abstruse agenda no one asked for and make posture as if they were divas.
If their way worked, Bush and Wolfowitz and Norquist’s eight years woulda proven it.
And it didn’t,
so it doesn’t.
AFY: I fear you may be correct. We could get the worst of both worlds. And much of the political rhetoric on all sides of this debate seems to ignore an underlying fact: the real problem is the cost of health care, not the cost of insurance or the cost of Medicare. As I understand it (and I don’t pretend to understand it very well) the Obama package includes some tentative steps toward getting a handle on those costs. We shall see.
I think GHK is pointing out the obvious, AFY: Can anyone state, with a straight face, that the coverage decisions of insurance companies are based on what’s best for the patient?
Let me see if I can find more information on this Rick Santorum fellow.
Just pull up google, type in “Rick Santorum” . . .
OH GOD!! AGGH!!!
John no arguments, the best sytsem, IMHO, should bring the doctor and patient more together deciding what is best for the patient with less (and not more) middle men, it would be cheaper too.
But the individual has the least power in this whole equation today and we all will get to pay for it, one way or another.
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
I know this is off point but;
I also would like to compliment the Herald for their political cartoon on Sunday, even though it is a known fact the Herald has taken a different view of that argument, the Herald still allows the other side to be heard, something you don’t always see nationally or locally with other publications.
Some may support that position(of the cartoon) but it is just as important when we do not (so as to appreciate another point of view) as it should be with any free thinking person.
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
A good related story in the journal over the weekend:
“The Republican who wins the presidency will have to have more than a command of the reasons the Obama administration must go. He will have to have a vision of this nation, and its place in the world, that voters recognize, that speaks to a sense of America they can see and take pride in. He can look at the film of the crowds, mostly of young people, who gathered at the White House to wave the flag of the United States when bin Laden was captured and killed. Faces of blacks, whites, Asians—of every ethnic group….
After all the years of instruction, all the textbooks on U.S. rapacity and greed, all the college lectures on the evil and injustice the U.S. had supposedly visited on the world, something inside these young rose up to tell them they were Americans. That something lies in the hearts of Americans across the land and it is those hearts to which the candidate will have to speak.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576359841146126376.html
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!