Has it really come to this?

The health care plan in its latest draft (which of course is not fully "released" to the public) has a provision in it which requires medical providers to be all in the system. In other words, there is a provision that requires a doctor or other provider to accept the payment in the amount set by the government for ALL services to ALL patients, so long as that provider accepts any patients covered by the system. Since there will be very few doctors who will have a practice that can be supported by those who choose not to participate in the government plan, this means that the government will now set all prices in the field of medicine. that further means that the government will determine which treatments are allowable and which are not (by refusing to pay for those which are not "approved").

This is the death of the american health care system insofar as it supports good care for anyone. the result will not be that those with poor medical care have their treatments improved much; rather, the result will be that those who now have good care will see the quality of care decline so that everyone gets the same poor care. It is much like the shoddy consumer goods made in the old Soviet Union. No one did better than anyone else (except for the party bosses -- here congress and those in the executive branch); everyone had to buy the same garbage.

another amazing provision in the latest bill is that there will be taxation for health care benefits but with an exception for all union members. I doubt that such a provision is even constitutional, but the very fact that the Obamacrats think that they can pass such a biased plan still amazes me. Are the American people brain dead? Are we only interested in the cause of death of Michael Jackson? anyoone looking at the news tonight would think so. Nothing since Obama took office has received coverage akin to Jackson's death. Even Al Sharpton is out there trying to hornin on the publicity. (And we all know that Al is really big in Pop music).