DOOLEY Observed: Bleeding Edge of ObamaCare Rationing

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Bleeding Edge of ObamaCare Rationing

Nancy Pelosi said that Congress must pass ObamaCare to find out what's in it. Now we have healthcare rationing by committee, the cornerstone of ObamaCare's socialist approach to medicine.

Sarah Palin was right. If ObamaCare is allowed to stand, an unelected and unaccountable "death panel" made up of bureaucrats in Washington D.C. will be charged with...
Rationing the health care options for tens of millions
Limiting access to life-saving treatments
Limiting medical breakthroughs or delaying their treatment
Dictating which prescription drugs are government approved

Everything about ObamaCare is about restricting your freedom, taking health care decisions away from you and giving them to a collection of bureaucrats, politicians and lobbyists that Barack Obama thinks "know better" then you about what's best for your family.

Even Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Barney Frank supports H.R. 452: To repeal the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act providing power to the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Frank was the 12th Democrat and the most prominent of the 212 members of the House, to co-sponsor the bill currently stuck in committee.

IPAB is a 15-member board, appointed by the president that is scheduled to begin rationing care in 2014.

In order to reduce per capita Medicare spending, the board will recommend levels at which Medicare recipients, our nation's seniors, can be reimbursed for health care expenses by rationing healthcare benefits.
ObamaCare also forces The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) to decide what preventative health treatments will be covered by ObamaCare's government-approved insurance.
And to give you an idea of what's to come... In November 2009, USPSTF suggested women age forty to forty-nine should not get routine mammograms. The country was outraged at the mammography proposal as USPSTF was weighing the benefit of breast cancer screening against the cost savings of letting some additional cancers go undetected.
ObamaCare and its death panels could make the mammography recommendation a government mandate.