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The newly passed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” guarantees that you will be afforded the protection to act as a patient. That does not mean you will actually be a patient. At least, that is according to President Obama’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid. As the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Donald Berwick,MD would be at a minimum, responsible for administrating and budgeting heathcare entitlements for millions of Americans. So, it may be of grave concern to these Americans that the potential administrator of their healthcare has said:

“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we ration with our eyes open.”

As a long time admirer of European style healthcare, Berwick has been critical of the US Healthcare system saying it is run in the “darkness of private enterprise” needing a “politically accountable system.” For Berwick this accountability would be managed by elites such as himself. He does not believe that “…the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do.”

Did you get that? No, read that last quotation again. It really does say that.

The CMS nominee is boasting that everyday Americans are too ignorant and incompetent to make their own healthcare choices. To him, consumer choice is the cause of a toxic and fragmented healthcare system in the US.

Even worse, the administration of healthcare would be a form of Obama’s wealth distribution plan. Berwick has said “Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition re-distributional.” Therefore, the rich would pay the healthcare expenses of the poor. Such babble is pure socialism at its finest.

Being civilized and humane about healthcare translates to blindly allowing educational elites to be the gatekeepers of your life. As our Big Parent, the government would choose who lives and dies. One of our Inalienable rights is the right to life. Clearly, the US government has no such authority to give and take such life – unless Americans allow this to consume them.

As president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Berwick has outlined a method of implementing such a Utopian healthcare system. First, budget limitations and accountability would be designated for certain populations. The costs would be shared among people and any savings would be reabsorbed within the system itself, thereby eliminating a motivation for profit. Finally, a new method of regulating MD’s would keep them in check and compliant within the government mandates.

Statists may argue that healthcare rationing is not in the PPACA. But, we know the opposite is true because our eyes are open.

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Despite the objection of medical professionals to be forced into H1N1 inoculation, many hospitals are resulting to socialism to have their way.  The hospital I am working at has required all staff to have the H1N1 flu shot by a certain date or they will have to wear a mask while on hospital property.  Refusing both will make you a number in Obama’s ten percent unemployment rate.

Technically, the employer is not forcing you to get the shot.  You can wear a mask.  But, who will want to walk around a hospital with a mask on?  It would startle patients if you were to enter their room with a mask.  Instead, the hospital’s approach is to indirectly force you into submission.  They are confident you submit voluntarily through social pressure. The hospital knows most will give in to avoid the hassle, embarrassment, and possible scorn by patients and other spineless staff.

Did I miss something?  Where are the wards full of dying flu patients?  There are none.  This overblown reaction to nothing is a symptom of government manhandling of our health care system.  Employers are just following suit.

Are we really going to put up with that?  You bet we are.  If we let the government control our health care and print money like it grows on trees – then a painless little shot for the ‘public good’ is no big deal.  If we let government push us around, then our employers will, too.

Source: The Nation’s Birthday:  Chicago’s Centennial Celebration of Washington’s Inauguration.  Page 185.  April 30, 1889.  Chicago: Slason Thompson and Co., Printers, 1890.

“Today a hundred years have gone since first the nation’s life began.  The infant of that day stands a strong man acknowledging no superior among the nations of the earth.  The century has been filled with momentous events.  Revolutions have shaken the thrones of Europe.  Empires have risen and fallen across the sea.  But the union of these States has grown always stronger and more vigorous.  The noise of battles and the tramp of armies have come to us not only from afar.  We have had our own experiences of war at home and abroad.  The Constitution of a hundred years has been assailed from without and from within.  But like the mountain oak it has gained strength and vigor from the tempest and stands to day a proud monument to its founders the rock of national unity and strength.

Under it we and our fathers have for a century past enjoyed the blessings of liberty controlled and regulated by law.  Under it let us hope the same blessings may still be enjoyed by generations yet unborn who will stand upon the now silent shores of the far off coming time.  Upon you who are boys and girls today the fate of these coming generations will largely depend.  You may not be called on to engage in the conflicts of arms as your fathers have been.  But you will have to fight battles no less serious.  Each generation must fight its own battles and every generation finds new battles to fight.

This my young friends is our country. That flag is our flag. Think what it has cost to defend it. That flag has been bathed in the blood of heroes.  It is the emblem of our liberty the symbol of national unity and power.  It represents home and friends and freedom and country. Many a man among us has seen it floating above the smoke of battle.”