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Human Events… The ObamaCare Nightmare
Before Christmas by
Jason Mattera - 12/21/2010
You’re probably thinking, "Jason, hasn’t this entire Barack presidency
been a nightmare thus far?" True that. But the ghoulishness
doesn’t stop with the intrusive blocks of legislation that have already
passed. We got a lot more opacity and conniving to look forward to.
Crap!
You see, with all the attention being given to the Democrats' attempt
to treat the lame-duck session as Barney Frank’s stocking-stuffer of
left-wing gifts galore, scant notice is paid to the implementation of
ObamaCare. Since the law's passage, there are hordes of Washington
bureaucrats scrambling to write rules and regulations pertaining to the
health-care overhaul. The reason we need a stable of bureaucrats in the
first place is that, as the New York Times put it, “The laws [in
ObamaCare] were so broad and complex that executive-branch regulators
have wide leeway in determining what the rules should say and how they
should be carried out.”
To recap, that's unelected officials who now have the discretion of
writing the guidelines on how you get treated.
And guess which unelected officials are leading the implementation
discussions? That would be none other than the Grim Reaper and Dr.
Death, who otherwise go by the names Donald Berwick and Ezekiel
Emanuel.
Berwick, recall, is the Medicare czar who was given a recess
appointment because his calling Britain's socialized health-care system
a "seductress," while also writing that the government should ration
the "number of centers engaging" in "cardiac surgery" "neonatal
intensive care" and "cancer care" were even too toxic for Democrats.
Berwick leads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an
agency with an annual budget bigger than the Pentagon’s, and yet
refuses to grant interviews or take questions from reporters. In fact,
he ran away from our cameras back in September and even ordered hotel
security to shield him from reporters who tried asking him questions
after a speech he gave to the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
So there is the Grim Reaper.
But then there’s Dr. Death, Ezekiel Emanuel — Rahm’s brother and an ad
hoc adviser to President Obama on all things health care. Last week,
Zeke and Berwick led a meeting at the White House with lobbyists of
health-care organizations to begin a discussion on the execution of
ObamaCare.
The invitation noted, “Thank you for your continued engagement as we
take on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. We are kicking
off a series of White House meetings between senior administration
officials and health care providers to exchange ideas on areas in need
of attention. We invite you (or a representative) and your organization
to join us.”
Surely, a meeting of this magnitude would be open to the press, right?
Heck, Obama did promise “an unmatched level of transparency,
participation, and accountability across the entire
administration.”
That was then, and this is now, where the details of ObamaCare’s
strcure are open to a handful of selected lobbyists only — not
reporters and not C-SPAN cameras, as the hackneyed pledge went.
Zeke Emanuel, by the way, is also a rationing evangelist. He is famous
for crafting a “complete lives” system that determines the
“appropriate” portion of treatment a person gets depending on their
age.
Seriously!
According to what Dr. Death penned in the medical journal Lancet,
“Individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most
substantial chance [of receiving care], whereas the youngest and oldest
people get chances that are attenuated.”
There you have it, folks: Donald Berwick and Zeke Emanuel — the
Gingrichs who want to kill grandma! And that’s not even being
hyperbolic. Zeke created a freaking “model” to allocate care and
Berwick thinks we have too many cancer treatment centers, and they are
both Obama’s point men on how best to put the new health-care
regulations into practice.
Good grief! The ObamaCare Nightmare Before Christmas indeed!
Per the left’s modus operandi, liberal lawmakers are making important
decisions behind closed doors that greatly affect us. It’s being done
in secret, and Mr. Obama and his rag-tag team of radicals don’t care.
They know what’s best for your life. They always know what’s best for
your life.
Stay tuned. There are more of these sly meetings being organized once
we enter New Year.
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