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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Eagle Forum <eagle@eagleforum.org><BR>Subject: Hidden provision in Stimulus bill!<BR>To: "ART KELLY" <arthurkelly@yahoo.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 5:55 PM<BR><BR>
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<TD><B>Stimulus Rations Health Care for Senior Citizens!</B></TD>
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<TD>Call your Representatives and Senators and Demand this Provision be Removed!</TD></TR>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">February 11, 2009</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Over the past 48 hours, specific details have unfolded about a little-known provision hidden deep within the 1500-page Obama-Reid-Pelosi “stimulus” bill (<A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/LIXUJVNHOI/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>H.R..1</A>). This provision allows the federal government to create a health information monopoly, a giant stepping stone toward nationalizing health-care. <BR><BR><B>Betsy McCaughey</B>, best known for her 1994 article, “No Exit,” which exposed the details of Hillary-Care and opened the door to its glorious defeat, has done it again! Just two days ago, her latest column, “<A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/GMQCJVNHOJ/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan</A>,” specifically detailed exactly what
the intentionally vague stimulus bill language means for all Americans. She confirms that the provisions flesh out the health care strategy which fallen HHS Secretary Nominee Tom Daschle laid out in his 2008 book called “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.”<BR><BR>The “stimulus” health care plan begins with Congress endorsing a very broad, not-well-defined concept in the form of a bill, and then bureaucrats, lobbyists, and unelected officials write and decide the “details.” <BR><BR><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><B>The stimulus health care “details” are as follows:</B></SPAN><BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Rations medical treatments, doctor's appointments, procedures, prescriptions,</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> etc. by setting up a federal database to track and monitor every American’s medical records and activity</SPAN>.</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Creates a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will monitor all treatments of every American in order to ensure that your medical procedures are deemed “cost effective” to the federal government.</B> The ultimate goal here is to have a single-payer system where medical procedures you elect to have are viewed as a “cost” to the government, since the health care market will ultimately be taxpayer-funded. </SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Harms senior citizens and the elderly the most.</B> The Federal Council will be granted authority to intervene and prohibit a patient from receiving a particular health service on the basis that it is not “cost effective.” This means that the government is more likely to deny an elderly person a service than a younger person, because the younger person will benefit a greater number of years from the medical treatment than the elderly person.</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><B>Imposes penalties on hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users,”</B> meaning that those who do not abide by the mandates will be punished. The stimulus bill does not specify what sort of penalties will apply, and this is intentional. Obama will leave these controversial decisions up to the <B>Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research</B>.</SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>Of all the problematic provisions contained within the Stimulus bill, this is arguably the most dangerous. This provision is Hillary-Care in disguise, stealthily and covertly inserted into a massive spending bill. Worst of all, time is running out! The “stimulus” has now passed both the House and Senate and is headed to conference where the
differences in language will be resolved, but we are receiving reports that the liberal Congressional Majority is aiming to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations! This cannot stand!<BR><BR><BR><B>Take Action:</B><BR></SPAN></SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Call, email, fax, and <A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/NGPYJVNHOK/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>blog</A>. Urge your Representative and Senators to start being vocal on this issue and demand it be taken out of the conference report.</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Write press releases and op-eds for your local newspapers so that the <A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/NLBMJVNHOL/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>media</A> is aware that there is intense opposition to this provision.</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Focus your lobbying efforts on those Members of Congress who are medical doctors (MDs). Tell them they need to go to the floor and explain to the American people why electronically monitoring their medical records and treatments is, ultimately, deadly.</SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR><B><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Congressional Medical Doctors to Target:</SPAN></B></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Senator Tom Coburn, MD (R-OK)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Senator John Barrasso, MD (R-WY)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Paul Broun, MD (R-GA)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. John Fleming, MD (R-LA)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD (R-GA)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Parker Griffith, MD (D-AL)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Ron Paul, MD (R-TX)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-GA)</SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rep. Phil Roe, MD (R-TN)</SPAN></SPAN></LI></UL><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><B>Further Reading:</B></SPAN><BR>Human Events articles (2)<BR></SPAN></SPAN>
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<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/AGFSJVNHOM/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Cantor Confirms Beginning of Nationalized Healthcare in Stimulus Bill</A></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/FJZIJVNHON/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Republicans Shut Out of Stimulus Conference Negotiations</A></SPAN></SPAN></LI></OL></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>WSJ article<BR><B><A href="http://capwiz.com/eagleforum/utr/1/IFREJVNFSC/HOCYJVNHOO/2913777146" target=_blank rel=nofollow>A Health-Tech Monopoly</A></B><BR></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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