Study About Obama Care

[URDRWHO]

http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/25813.pdf

Example from the study:

Obama's CEA Spills the Beans
A recent report from President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA),21 which he has touted as showing how his plan would reduce health costs, describes explicit and comprehensive government rationing of health care.

Looking systematically at what works and what doesn't in order to provide more high value care and less care that is of low value. For many types of medical conditions, a patient may have a choice of several methods or treatments, each having different benefits or risks. Systematic examinations of the merits of different treatments and dissemination of the results of these examinations to patients and providers is one mechanism for promoting high value health care. 22 (bold in the original)

In other words, a health care bureaucracy in Washington, DC – not you and your doctor – would decide what health care works and what doesn't, what is high-value care and what is low-value
care. Of course, this bureaucracy would not know you or anything about your illness, as your doctor does. But like all good central planners, the CEA and President Obama assume the
government is omniscient.

21 The President's Council of Economic Advisors, The Economic Case for Health Reform, June 2, 2009.
22 Id.

 

[Rivers1]

Thanks for the report.

Pages 5-20 explains pretty damning evidence.

 

[somarco]

The argument is convincing, but not sure you want to be quoting the author. He has some interesting associations in the past, including Jack Abramoff.

 

[maximas]

This guy, Peter Ferrara, is a chump. He was one of the major proponents of privatizing social security. Still an interesting read, though.

 

[somarco]

I like the idea of privatized SS. At least then there would be money in the bank for seniors instead of IOU's.

And this article also has some salient points.

My issue is, this guy has questionable associations. Maybe not as strong as Rev. Wright, but still enough to question his credibility.

 

[deg929]

Has anyone got a link to the report anywhere?

Thanks!

 

[somarco]

Has anyone got a link to the report anywhere?

Is this a joke?