THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN – IN ONE WORD

By David H. Janda M.D.

Monday, August 24, 2009

As a physician who has authored books on Preventative Health Care and Health Care
Cost Containment, I was recently given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker
at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington D.C… The
presentation, entitled Health Care Reform; The Power & Profit of Prevention was
well received.

In preparation for the presentation, I read the latest version of “reform” as

authored by The Obama Administration and supported by Speaker Pelosi and Senator
Reid. It is important to realize that The Obama Health Care Plan is comprised of
two parts…..that’s right, not one but two parts.

The first part of The Obama Health Care Plan was buried in The Stimulus Bill which
was signed into law by the President in February. It is the second part of The
Health Care Plan which is now being debated in Congress.

Let me summarize just a few salient points of the two part Obama Health Care Plan.
Warning……. They need to put the same warning on The Obama Health Care Plan as they
do a pack of cigarettes…..Consuming this product WILL be hazardous to your health.

The underlying METHODS OF CUTTING COST throughout the plan IS BASED ON RATIONING
and DENYING CARE, NOT PREVENTING health care need. The plan’s method is the most
inhumane and unethical approach in cutting costs. The rationing of care is
implemented through a Council, equivalent to the National Health Care Board in the
British Health Care System. The name given to this panel is The Federal
Coordinating Council For Comparative Effectiveness Research (”Federal Council”).
(Section 9201 H.R. 1 Version of the Stimulus Bill.)

President Obama has already appointed the fifteen member Federal Council.
According to the Stimulus Bill, p. 152, all members of the Council must be “senior
federal officers or employees.” Thus, medical treatment will be dispensed by a
group of bureaucrats from their ivory towers, not by the hands-on practitioners in
the presence of the patients. The council was funded with $1.1 BILLION from The
Stimulus Bill. (Source.)
“Comparative Effectiveness Research” is based on the formula of the approval or
rejection of treatment for patients based upon the cost per treatment divided by
the number of years the patient will benefit from the treatment.

According to former New York Lieutenant Governor and Health Policy Analyst Dr.
Betsy McCaughey, the Federal Council will set a cost effectiveness standard for
treatment. (Stimulus Bill p. 464) Translation…..if you are over 65 or have been
recently diagnosed as having an advanced form of cardiac disease or aggressive
cancer, dream on if you think you will get treated…..pick out your BOX. Oh, you
say…this could never happen. Sorry….this is the same model they use in Britain.

The plan also empowers the Federal Council to create another level of bureaucracy,
The Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research. (Health Care Bill, Section
1181, p. 502). The effect of this extra level of bureaucracy is to slow the
development of new medications and technologies in order to reduce costs. How
special is that!

The plan also outlines that doctors and hospitals will be overseen and reviewed by
The National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. This “Coordinator” will
be responsible for monitoring treatments to make sure doctors and hospitals are
strictly following what the government deems appropriate and cost effective, and
to “guide medical decisions at the time and place of care.” (Stimulus Bill, p.
116; see also pp. 442, 446).

The Stimulus Bill goes on to say that hospitals and doctors that are NOT
“meaningful users” of the new systems will face penalties. The Secretary of Health
and Human Services will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of
meaningful use over time.” (Stimulus Bill pp. 366, 478, 511, 518, 540, 541.)
According to those in Congress, penalties could include large six figure financial
fines and possible imprisonment. According to the Obama Plan, if your doctor saves
your life but breaks government protocol, you might have to go to the prison to
see your doctor for follow-up appointments. I believe this is the same model
STALIN used in the former Soviet Union.

Section 102 of the Health Care Plan has the Orwellian title: “Protecting the
Choice to Keep Current Coverage.” What this section really mandates is that it is
ILLEGAL FOR YOU TO KEEP YOUR PRIVATE INSURANCE if your status changes, e.g., if
you lose or change your job, become a senior citizen, graduate from college and
land your first job. Yes, illegal. When President Obama was asked about this
portion of his plan recently, his response was, “I am not familiar with that part
of the plan.”

Obama hosted a conference call with bloggers urging them to pressure Congress to
pass his health plan as soon as possible.
During the call, a blogger from Maine said he kept running into an Investors
Business Daily* article that claimed Section 102 of the House health legislation
would OUTLAW PRIVATE INSURANCE. He asked: “Is this true? Will people be able to
keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though
H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am
not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”

Then there is Section 1233 of the Health Care Bill, devoted to “Advanced Care
Planning.” After each American turns 65 years of age they have to go to a mandated
counseling program that is designed to end life sooner. This session is to occur
every 5 years unless the person has developed a chronic illness then it must be
done every year. The topics in this government run session will include how to
decline hydration, nutrition and how to initiate hospice care. It is no wonder the
Obama Administration does NOT like my emphasis on Prevention. Under the Health
Care Plan for cost containment, Prevention is the “enemy,” since people would live
longer.

I rest my case….The Health Care Plan authored by Obama / Pelosi / Reid is

hazardous to the health of every American.

In the question/answer session following my Capitol Hill presentation, a

Congressman asked: “I am doing a number of network interviews next week on the
Obama Health Care Plan. If I am asked what is the one word to describe the plan,
what should I answer?”

The answer is simple, honest, direct, analytical, and sad, but truthful. The word
is FASCIST.

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Dr. Janda is a practicing orthopedic surgeon and a world-recognized expert on

prevention, healthcare cost containment, and health care reform. His website is:

NOINJURY.com.

Hear Dr. Janda at:

http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/2009/08/dr-david-janda-on-awakening-
tonight.html#Obamacare2

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*It's Not An Option

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the
House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a
provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was
released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the
House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private
coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current
Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer

offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the
first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the
legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions:
Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it.
Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy
individual plans from private carriers.

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the
government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance
coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that
will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be
funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with
Washington's coverage.

The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans
could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would
leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers. This could cause the
market to, as Lewin Vice President John Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether."

What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for
private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the
public option becomes law.
The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal that
Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative because nothing
gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less,
than HSAs.f

With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the welfare
state will be removed.

The public option won't be an option for many, but rather a mandate for buying
government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft TYRANNY.

Washington DOES NOT HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL OR MORAL AUTHORITY TO OUTLAW PRIVATE
MARKETS in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn't be killing business
opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans'
lives.

It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political
powers to increase their reach. It's scary to think how many more BREACH OF
LIBERTY we'll come across in the final 1,002.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854

In Obama's own words

SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE
private insurance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk

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