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The Stimulus package contains a provision, most likely written by Tom Daschle, according to World Net Daily.com that contains rationing for health. In other words, according to how old you are, they will test the “cost-effectiveness” of certain procedures. Obviously, if you are a senior citizen,  it will not be cost effective to save your life with an expensive procedure. In England, for example, Jack Tagg, an 89 yr old UK Vet, was denied treatment of a vision problem, according to NPR.org. The government said he would have to go blind in one eye first. However, he did challenge the government and won. NPR did have some positive things to say about Britain’s Health Care, opposed to the American system, which does bankrupt people. I would say also that there are alternative therapies, which are very commonly not explored in the Allopathic world of Western Medicine. Also, another adverse feature of the stimulus bill, for senior citizens, is, according to The Obama File, is that Social Security will be running on a deficit for the first time, so benefits may not be paid.

And Tanya Marquette from The Helath Care Blog adds: “And Tom Daschle will support this entire system. His ideas only look to cut doctors liability now, limit medical care to a formulaic system, have decisions made by another ‘independent’ agency that can made decisions without public discussion of any import, etc. He is lifting from the USDA and the FDA. The whole system stinks so it doesn’t matter who runs it.”

Tanya goes on to say that there is no incentive in the health care system to provide doctors with extra education in nutrition. Remember that the Father of Modern Medicine, Hippocrates, said “let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.”

Additionally, Sue Blevin’s Organization, For Health Freedom, warns that the health provisions also infringe on patients’ rights to privacy of their health records. She said “There’s a lot at stake with electronically transferring health data and paying claims within the $2.2 trillion health-care industry,” warned the organization, which works on issues of health freedom in the U.S. Apparently, even Google is bidding for the purchase of these medical records, which it can then sell to its’ advertising clients.

Considering that according to Wikipedia he worked as a lobbyist for Alston & Bird’s health care clients include CVS Caremark, the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, Abbott Laboratories and HealthSouth, how can we expect a rational, non-coprorate Universal Health Care Plan from someone who has spent a lifetime as a politician and a lobbyist?Now, even more that we know the corrupt character of Tom Daschle.

Instead of appointing Dr. Sanjay Gupta to the position of Surgeon General, why not Secretary of Health and Human Services? It doesn’t make much sense to appoint someone to that post who doesn’t know about Medicine.

There is also some concern over proposed genetic screening that will search for abnormalities, criminal propensities and other deviations, and, who knows where this will lead? Eugenics?