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Our Future Under the Federal JackBoot

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Our Future Under the Federal JackBoot

It's Not So Pretty

from JoeUser Forums

I'm not a particular fan of the American Medical Association.  In my view, it is too enmeshed with currying favor with the federal government (also known as partnering) to be an effective advocate for either patients or physicians.  But occasionally the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) publishes some worthwhile reading.  The latest issue has a commentary about the collision of scientific principles with interest-group advocacy politics and an editorial about the futility of central or top-down micromanagement, which are very interesting and say a lot about the future of healthcare, in particular our ability (or lack thereof) to make informed decisions for ourselves, in our increasingly federalized system.

I can't republish the articles here but the references (links) for those interested are:

Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines
Kraemer and Gostin
JAMA. 2009; 301: 665-667.

The Elusive Quest for Quality and Cost Savings in the Medicare Program
John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP
JAMA. 2009; 301(6): 668-670.

 

EDIT 2-11-14:  Time to update the Title to more appropriately reflect reality.

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Reply #52 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Daiwa, reply 50
Now BO's IRS is going to require businesses to certify in writing, under penalty of perjury, that if they reduced their work force from some number greater than 99 to 99 or less that they did not do so because of Obamacare (to get into the waivered group).

Eerily like Gilliard's edict that Oz companies could not blame price increases on the carbon tax.  If allowed to stand, we have lost a basic right enshrined in the Constitution.

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Reply #53 from JoeUser Forums Top

Now this is interesting.  Not to mention infuriating.

Reply #54 from JoeUser Forums Top

That's the NSA for you.

Reply #55 from JoeUser Forums Top

For my fellow (thread) necrophiliacs:

And now that the only 'controlled' study of the impact of Medicaid has been published, we know it's a complete waste of money.

Reply #56 from JoeUser Forums Top

And now, thanks to Roberts & Kennedy, the noose is tightened securely around our necks.  Once they fully control our "health" there is nothing that cannot be justified in the service thereof.  Only a matter of time.