ObamaCare's Next Big Whopper! - Granite Grok

ObamaCare’s Next Big Whopper!

A likely topic tomorrow, when we have Dr. Betsy McCaughey on GrokTALK! is the unraveling of the next big lie of ObamaCare.

From the New York Post

Like so many other parts of ObamaCare, the reality flies in the face of promises. In this case, it was the one where the president assured us that “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making.”

Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring “health-care quality,” which of course could mean anything.

“The powers given to the secretary are so broad, he or she could literally dictate how all physicians nationwide practice medicine,” warns Congressman Phil Gingrey (R. Georgia), himself a physician. Gingrey is sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 1311(h)(1)(B). Otherwise, he says, the HHS secretary — a Washington bureaucrat with no medical training — could, for example, bar doctors from doing routine mammogram screenings until female patients turn 50. In short, the federal government will be calling the shots on what patients get.

The rules have not been announced, but we have some hints from the president’s key health advisor when the Affordable Care Act was written, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Early on, he suggested that doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.”

His point was that so long as doctors are in charge, cost control would not be possible. “Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality of care are merely lipstick cost control,” he said, “more for show and public relations than true change.” In contrast, ObamaCare empowers the HHS secretary to limit care by imposing top-down regulations directly on doctors and hospitals.

So to translate, Dr, Emanuel is telling you that they deliberately lied bout this as well.  Obama Lied.  Carol Shea-Porter lied.  Jeanne Shaheen Lied.  All the Democrats lied.  Again.  And again, and again. (and again..) And they lie to you all the time on a wide range of issues.

The folks who told you the truth…were shouted down, called names, accused of being racists and misogynists and wanting to kill old people and women.  The reality was exactly the opposite.   But don’t worry.  Democrats will keep lying to cover their earlier lies.  They will keep calling us names for trying to protect you from them and their awful agenda.  And in the end you will pay out of your pockets, with your time, and ultimately from decreasing access and service.

I’d prefer things to be different but that wont happen if you do not stand with us to stop this disaster.

 

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