Donald Berwick is Doctor Death
Aug 16, 2010 Political
Looks like Sarah Palin was on target when she discussed the death panels that would come with Obamacare and it looks like she, along with many other Americans, were right on top of things regarding bureaucrats coming between you and your doctor.
Obama’s recess appointment, Donald “Dr. Death” Berwick will, for the first time, not allow an FDA approved drug to be used to treat Medicare patients with ovarian cancer.
Provenge, a vaccine to treat the recurrence of prostate cancer, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)… Medicare usually covers the cost of FDA-approved anti-cancer therapies. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is still reviewing whether it will cover Provenge, and at what rate.
The CMS statute states that Medicare must cover therapies that are reasonable and necessary, while the FDA is instructed to approve drugs that are safe and effective. Because of the conflicting Federal coverage and approval requirements, there are some non-FDA approved drugs (called off-label drugs) that are paid for by CMS. However, with respect to Provenge, it appears that CMS is arguing that while the treatment is safe and effective, it may not be reasonable and necessary. For the first time, an FDA approved anti-cancer therapy may not be covered by Medicare. Doug Ross
As Doug points out, withholding a treatment that could save lives sounds like a death panel. To top it off, a bureaucrat is between you and your doctor with regard to what treatment you should receive. That was another thing we were told would not happen.
The article also points out that the FDA is working on removing another previously approved breast cancer drug, a move opposed by the Susan G Koman for the Cure® and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA).
Yet, Obama told seniors that despite what others were saying their guaranteed benefits would not be cut.
The end of Doug’s article is the most sobering and every senior should pay attention:
Folks, this is precisely why the cancer survival rate for the U.K. is so much lower than that of the U.S. — and, in some cases, lower than Eastern Europe’s. And why Donald Berwick’s nickname is Dr. Death.
America’s seniors are about to find out that having coverage is not the same thing as receiving care. And our seniors are about to pay the piper.
This is what happens when uneducated people vote. This is what happens when a smooth talking Socialist combines with a secret list of journalists dedicated to being his propaganda machine (no Journo-Lister should ever be given credibility). This is what happens when Americans allow their attention to be diverted. This is what happens when the youth of this country are brainwashed in school and then allowed to vote. This is what happens when seniors are held hostage to a Ponzi scheme falsely marketed as their retirement plan.
This is what happens when people listen to a person say he will fundamentally transform the country and then vote for him anyway.
America, you have been sold a bill of goods. You can reverse that in November.
It is a matter of life or death both for the country and for those who will be affected by Dr. Death and his policies…
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: death panel, donald berwick, dr. death, lies, medicare, obamacare, socialism
A Preview Of Obamacare
Aug 14, 2010 Political
The state of Massachusetts had Obamacare before there was an Obama to worry about. It came under Republican Mitt Romney and it is basically the same thing that the federal government shoved down our throats. It is also a huge failure. Imagine how life will be when all 50 states are full of Obamacare hospitals:
Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public dump.
The unshredded records included pathology reports with patients’ names, addresses, and results of breast, bone, and skin cancer tests, as well as the results of lab work following miscarriages. boston.com
There will be no privacy and there will be little if any competence. Government grows bigger and programs get bigger and as they do the incompetence is more and more evident. There are countless examples from the mismanagement of Stimulus funds to the payment of benefits for dead people and these will only become more frequent and more egregious as government grows bigger and sinks its fangs deeper into the neck of America.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: government screw up, lies, Massachusetts, mitt romney, obamacare
Sheriff Taylor Loses Small Town Values
Aug 1, 2010 Political
Andy Griffith played a sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry. In Mayberry people did not have to lock their doors, neighbors helped each other out, Sundays were for worship, and children were allowed to play cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians and any other game and were not considered politically incorrect or bigoted.
Something happened to the people of the town of Mayberry. Ron Howard, who played Opie Taylor, is one of Hollywood’s biggest left wing liberals and Sheriff Taylor has abandoned the small town values people who watched the show admired.
Andy Griffith is now a spokesperson for Obamacare and his gig is paid for with our tax dollars out of Medicare funds. Griffith appears in an ad telling seniors how wonderful Obamacare will be:
The TV star – whose role as sheriff of Mayberry made him an enduring symbol of small-town American values – tells seniors that “good things are coming” under the health care overhaul, including free preventive checkups and lower-cost prescriptions for Medicare recipients. My Way News
It would appear as if the Obama regime and Andy Griffith are trying to dupe seniors. As the piece reads, the role of sheriff in Mayberry made Griffith and enduring symbol of small town American values.
Reliance on the government is not a small town American value. Expecting others to pay for you is not a small town American value. In small town America, people are self reliant and do not want government interference.
To make things worse, Griffith tells seniors that good things are coming including FREE check ups. NOTHING IS FREE. Taxpayers have to pay for this. It is definitely not free and saying it is only muddies the waters. It is confusing by design. Seniors are skeptical about Obamacare and they should be. The man he picked to run Medicare believes in rationing care and is a supporter of the British system that allows people who are deemed too expensive to care for to die.
Yes, we are talking about death panels. There is no doubt that government officials will make decisions about people’s care and that some folks will not get care because it is too expensive or they are too old. They will be sent home with pain pills, per Dr. Obama’s instructions.
Andy Griffith is the symbol of small town America and trust. Everyone trusted sheriff Taylor and the way he handled things. Certainly this man is not lying to seniors and only has their best interests at heart.
Right. He is duping the poor seniors at the behest of the Obama regime because seniors are reliable voters and they will be at the polls in November even if no other demographic sees fit to vote. Seniors will be there and they are not happy so the regime needed to bring in a trusted senior to talk some sense into them.
Unfortunately, Griffith cannot be trusted. He has been a Democrat supporter for years so his support for this is not surprising. However, casting him in the ad, given the association his former character had with small town American values, is nothing more than a deception designed to dupe the elderly simply because Griffith does not hold those values in real life.
If the Obama regime believed in truth in advertising they would have Dr. Jack Kevorkian as their spokesperson.
That would be an accurate portrayal of the things to come under Obamacare.
Griffith is lucky though. He is not going to live much longer and if he happens to make it to the implementation of Obamacare it will not effect him. He has enough money to pay for whatever care he wants.
The rest of the elderly will not be so fortunate. You old folks had better vote in November and get rid of all the people who did this to you.
And if you are smart you will ditch your AARP membership. There are other organizations (here and here) that assist the elderly and, unlike the AARP, they actually look out for the interests of the elderly.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: and griffith, deception, lies, mayberry, obamacare
Round Up Of The Liberal’s Madness
Jul 18, 2010 Political
The elites want you to bathe in the oil while they eat lobster in Maine
Michelle Obama told people that there were plenty of clean beaches in the Gulf and that people should vacation there. She told them to take their kids with them, you know to enjoy the place.
But that did not apply to Michelle and her husband. Perhaps you have heard of him. He is the Socialist who is currently in charge of the country and who spends most of his time playing one sport or another or being on vacation. But his vacation is not in the Gulf, no, no, no. The Obamas are in Maine, the place Bill Clinton liked to vacation. They are hobnobbing, interrupting the real Americans who are trying to enjoy a vacation, and ignoring the Gulf, the very place Michelle told people to visit.
The Gulf, where one could potentially be contaminated, is for the peons among us and not the elitists who spend their time in places like Martha’s Vineyard.
I bet if it was called the GOLF Coast he would vacation there…
ABC News Jake Tapper
Elena Kagan is another Socialist who hates the military
She hates the military. There is no other way to look at her ban of recruiters on the Harvard Campus because of the policy against open homosexuality. One might think that she took a principled stance but she allowed the Saudi recruiters on campus to discuss and promote Sharia Law. Sharia Law calls for murdering homosexuals. Kagan is not so much in favor of homosexual rights as she is against the military. Here is the transcript from this video:
As Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan banned military recruiters from campus because US law said they couldn’t enlist homosexuals. Well, she invited the Saudi’s “recruiters” to promote their legal code — Shariah — which calls for homosexuals to be murdered and women to be treated like animals. If Kagan tolerates promoting the injustice of Shariah law on the campus of Harvard, what kind of injustice will she tolerate in America during a lifetime on the Supreme Court?
Big Dog Salute to American Power
How is that universal health care in Massachusetts working out?
The Unites States contains 50 pitri dishes that allow for things to take place and be worked out. The states can try things and if they are good the country can adopt them and if they are bad the country can reject them. This is good in theory but the federal government and the individual states, by and large, continue doing the things that cause problems.
In any event, Massachusetts enacted a health care law much like the one the federal government imposed on the rest of us earlier this year. Despite the failings of the MA health care plan, the federal government pushed forward (against a majority of people in the country) and forced their plan on us. Opponents of the law warned that it will lead to rationing, it will lead to bureaucrats making medical decisions, will force businesses to drop their employees (dump them on the taxpayer), and will cost a lot more than government predictions. The model was there in MA but it was ignored because the law is not about health and it is not about care.
It is about control.
Here is what is now taking place in Massachusetts.
The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some analysts say, could eventually weigh heavily on the state’s already-stressed budget. boston.com
The Massachusetts law was supposed to reduce costs. It was supposed to make health care more affordable. It was supposed to allow people to keep their current insurance. It was designed to make it affordable for employers so they could cover their employees.
Sounds just like what the liberals told us about Obamacare.
And it too will cost more than they said, will lead to rationing, will lead to death panels (denied care that leads to death is a death panel), and will force businesses to drop employees and dump them on the government plan. Just ask Massachusetts how it all worked out…
Everyone on the government plan is what the progressives have wanted all along but this is not what we were told.
Looks like it is November or never.
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Tags: death panels, elena kagan, golf vacation, gulf vacation, health care, homosexuals, lies, maine, Massachusetts, Obama, obamacare, Sharia Law
Elderly Get Practice For Obamacare Death Panels
Dec 2, 2009 Political
The idea of death panels made the liberals laugh at Sarah Palin. She suggested that the Obamacare plan would create an environment where care would be rationed and the elderly would not get the care they needed. She likened those who would make those decisions to death panels and the left ridiculed her for it.
They ridiculed even though there is no doubt that there will be rationing of care. Forcing people to have health insurance and then adding millions more people to the mix will mean that care must be rationed for two very simple reasons.
The first is that there will not be enough health care providers.
The second is that the plan will cost so much money (two or three times what they say) so care will be rationed based on cost and the number of years a person has on this Earth. Young people work (when Obama has not caused unemployment to rise) and they pay taxes. The elderly consume about two-thirds of the health care dollars spent in this country so they will be allowed to die off for the sake of efficiency and cost savings. Obama did tell them they might be better off just taking a pill.
The elderly are already finding out what rationing will be like and they are finding out because of the Swine Flu vaccine. The elderly cannot get it. They are being denied the vaccine because of shortages. There are plenty of elderly that have underlying diseases who should be vaccinated but the vaccines are being rationed to children, young people with underlying medical conditions, pregnant women and health care workers. The elderly, left out in the cold:
But as grateful as he is, the 74-year-old Anter admits one thing will be bugging him during the holidays.
“The truth is,” the retired paper sales executive said last week, “when I think about not being able to get a swine flu shot, I get real pissed off.”
Two months after H1N1 flu vaccine was first distributed to public health districts around the country, people 65 and older with serious medical conditions still can’t get vaccinated.
Anter’s doctors at Stanford University Hospital, where he received his transplant, tell him he has a compromised immune system and “the H1N1 flu could do me in.”
He takes at least nine prescription medications daily to stay alive.
“But when I try to get a shot, I’m told I’m too old ” he said as he sat in the study of his Peccole Ranch home.
“I feel that they see me and other older people as garbage and are just waiting for the trucks to come pick us up,” Anter said.
“I served my country. I enlisted during the Korean War. You don’t treat people this way just because they’re older.” Review Journal
I am well aware of the statistics of who is more likely to get the Swine Flu and the young appear to be more susceptible than the elderly but this assumes the elderly who are in relatively good health. Those with serious medical conditions, especially conditions that compromise their immune systems, should be immunized.
They should be in the group of people who get the vaccine first but since they are old they are not getting it.
What other possible reason could there be for denying the vaccination to old people with compromised immune systems?
The sad reality is that they are not as productive and do not have as many years left as the younger folks so they are not getting the vaccine. Sure, those in good health have no reason to worry but the elderly with medical conditions that put them more at risk should be vaccinated.
This is a foreshadowing of the death panel. Care is being rationed because the government could not fulfill its promise to have a vaccination for every citizen who wants one. Since the vaccine must be rationed the elderly with health problems are the ones who are denied.
The senior citizens in this country are getting a preview of Obamacare. You folks better get busy and let the people who represent you in Congress know to kill this bill.
What will happen when they decide that the elderly should not have costly blood pressure medication, clot busting drugs for myocardial infarction, antineoplastic drugs for cancer treatment, or joint replacement surgery all because of age?
Well, at least Obama will give you a pill instead.
It will probably be a cyanide capsule.
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