Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

As I’ve said, this stimulus package is a TRAP! It’s filled with pork and ever increasing government controls. The cognitively challenged voted for this Stalinist so we all have to suffer, but we don’t have to take it.
Government controlled socialized medicine is in this bill. It creates a new government bureaucracy: the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology which will be entrusted with ALL of our medical records. Eventually bureaucrats will adopt Tom Daschle’s “Meaningful user” designation to separate out those who will no longer receive health care because, by government standards, their terminal illness makes them unworthy of such treatment.
“Meaningful user” means your doctor will have to justify your treatment when you’re declared “terminally ill.” It means a bureaucrat can say you don’t deserve further medical care; go home and die.

What does terminal mean?

In 1984 (ironic?) Colorado Governor Richard Lamm called dying a “DUTY” for terminally ill seniors!

At that time prostate cancer meant go home and die. Today it’s frequently a minor interruption of a man’s life.

Where else can this lead?

Last year England told 4000 “terminally ill” people to die because, they weren’t worth the expense of the drugs to keep them alive.
In 2008 Oregon told a “terminally ill” cancer patient the same thing, but her letter included a pamphlet on committing suicide!
Princeton’s Peter Singer’s dreams could come true. This monster recommends parents of Down Syndrome newborns be allowed (up to 2 days) to “bring the infant back” so the baby could be conveniently surgically murdered Soylent Green /1984 style.

Obama voted for letting miracle abortion survivors die neglected and alone on a cold steel table in a broom closet. Anything is possible now and “terminal” might soon mean “Let them die.” Let’s fight this outrage!

More on this awful bill

It is a redo of Hillarycare where “offending” doctors and hospitals who dare to treat private patients would be punished.
You WILL be under the control of government health care. The bill says “every individual in the United States” will be in the federal system.
The bill allocates more for health care than what we now spend on our entire military.
If the recommendations of Tom Daschle are followed, and they will be, seniors will be told to stop complaining about everything, shut up and suffer with the aches and pains that come with old age because “you will get nothing from the government.”
Since “only cost effective” proven treatments will be allowed, medical experimentation and advancement will stop.

More than this, Daschle’s plan is modeled on the failed English system that has rules like this: if you have macular degeneration you have to wait until you are blind in one eye before you will be given drugs to save your other eye. Thankfully this one was over turned, but you get the idea.

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