BuckwheatCare Uses Communist Takeover of ALL Doctors in America!
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- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:17:11 -0400
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Dr. Russell Blaylock: Doctors Will be 'Drafted' Under Democrats'
Public Option
Monday, October 12, 2009
A doctor screens a patient without healthcare insurance at a free
clinic in Miami. The House version of Obamacare "is virtually a draft
because it says all physicians are automatically in the public option
unless they opt out,? and the opt-out mechanism is a mystery, says
Blaylock (AP Images)
A respected medical specialist has carefully reviewed the healthcare
reform bill in the U.S. House, and he declares that it would amount to
a virtual "draft" of doctors into the government's "public option"
health insurance program.
Dr. Russell Blaylock, a renowned neurosurgeon, book author and editor
of the Blaylock Wellness Report published by Newsmax, also warns that
"death panels" could lead to the rationing of medical care to the
elderly and a "violation of the Hippocratic Oath."
In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Dr. Blaylock points to other
ominous provisions in the bill, HR 3200, which he says would:
Severely discourage the readmission of patients to a hospital after
they have been treated, and punish doctors and hospitals if they do
readmit them.
Require medical practitioners to document their dealings to the extent
that they won't have enough time to adequately treat their patients.
Jeopardize the confidentiality of patients' medical records, including
psychiatric reports.
The Senate's version of healthcare reform is slated to be voted on by
the Finance Committee on Tuesday. But the House bill has already been
approved by several committees and is sure to play a major role in any
conference by the House and Senate to reconcile the bills those bodies
pass.
Newsmax.TV's Ashley Martella noted that under the House bill,
physicians would be drafted into the public option, a provision Dr.
Blaylock has earlier called "conscription."
This bill "is virtually a draft because it says all physicians are
automatically in the public option unless they opt out, and the opt
out mechanism will be later determined by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services," Dr. Blaylock said.
"Well, we don't know how difficult it will be for physicians to opt
out. Will there be penalties, fines, taxes, etc.? Because that's all
left up to the Secretary."
He added on that score: "One of the things that concerns the legal
minds of this country is that any bill that contains arbitrary
language can be interpreted after it's passed any way they want to.
And in this bill, virtually every page gives arbitrary powers to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services."
Blaylock warned that under the House bill, hospital readmissions will
be very restricted.
"One of the things they targeted to save money was to punish hospitals
and physicians if they readmit a patient within a month of them being
treated in an emergency room," he said.
"The effect of that is going to be that doctors are not going to want
to treat these patients, hospitals are not going to want to treat
these patients. It's going to cost hospitals a considerable amount of
money as well as the physicians in fines if a patient comes back
readmitted.
"Now the people who are going to be readmitted are people with chronic
illnesses, the elderly, the disabled. Those are the people who are
going to have complications occur within that month period. And why
should hospitals and physicians be punished for that?
"They're not going to want to treat these patients. They're going to
want to refer them quickly to another facility. And that's one of the
biggest problems we have, patients being bounced around."
Martella asked about a controversial provision in the bill for
so-called end of life counseling, which critics have charged would set
up "death panels."
"This caused a lot of controversy, on so-called death panels and
whether this advanced healthcare planning was actually required," Dr.
Blaylock said.
"But it says very specifically on pages 424 through 428 that these
sessions will be part of the normal medical practice. Therefore it's
not voluntary.
"So every patient of a certain age will have to undergo this
counseling. And further, in really frightening language, this bill
[stipulates] that the people doing the counseling will be specially
trained and approved by the federal government. They'll supply films,
brochures, pamphlets ? the data the patients are being exposed to.
"If you look at a lot of this literature now, what it says is that
these patients will be encouraged to end their life early rather than
take extraordinary medical treatments.
"For instance, if you're 65, 70 years old and you have congestive
heart failure, in their view you really should make the decision that
you don't want any further treatment, that it would be best for you
and your family.
"And if you couch it that way you can convince a lot of patients
through guilt that they really shouldn't be spending the money that
it's going to cost their family as well as the country at large. So
this is a very dangerous precedent. This is a violation of the
Hippocratic Oath...
"But then the health czar, Ezekiel Emanuel, has said that physicians
are too obsessed with this Hippocratic Oath. And if you read his
papers on this subject, he clearly states that the elderly should just
make the decision that they don't want any further treatment and go
ahead and meet their end.
"The Hastings Center that he writes for, and that he's on the advisory
panel for, clearly [states] that patients need to just reject any kind
of extraordinary healthcare, or just ordinary healthcare, and accept
that they're going to die. To me that is under the definition of a
death panel.
"If you look at the socialist countries, for instance National
Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union, they had very similar
policies. They just didn't treat these people."
Dr. Blaylock is also concerned about the huge amount of paperwork the
bill would require from medical practitioners.
"Those of us who have practiced medicine for a lot of years know that
in the last 15 years, progressively, there's been so many requirements
for the reporting of virtually everything," he said.
"This bill expands it enormously, so that physicians are not going to
have time to do patient care to the extent that they should. They're
not going to be able to follow up on their post-graduation education
or attend seminars, because they're going to spend time documenting
everything.
"They have to document any interaction with any federal bureaucracy or
any other entity that they contract with. They have to determine
whether there's a fraud risk. They're fined if fraud is found later,
even though they're just referring a patient to an outpatient
facility. They have to do quality assessments continuously.
"Now that's going to cause doctors to spend enormous amounts of time
documenting all this and I don't see how they can even do it. The
paperwork is absolutely enormous."
Martella asked if that record-keeping would encroach on doctor-patient
confidentiality.
"Certainly. Whether you use patient code, patient names, all that is
to be determined later. None of that is spelled out in this bill. So
it has the potential, particularly in regard to the financial records
that have to be supplied, of putting at risk your financial data, your
medical data, if you've seen a psychiatrist, if you've had any kind of
infectious disease that you don't want anyone to know about."
Under the bill, "all this information is available to a lot of eyes at
every level and all sorts of bureaucracies, and it can leak out."
See Video: Dr. Russell Blaylock discusses the threats to quality
medical care under Obamacare - Click Here Now:
http://video.newsmax.com/?bcpid=20972460001&bclid=22770166001&bctid=44583765001
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