Apparently, according to The American Thinker, it wasn’t this:
Which, by the way, did come in as the biggest LIE of 2013 according to the Washington Post.
But, according to American Thinker, this wasn’t the biggest lie either: the fiction of “saving” $2,500 per family:
Which made me create this graphic:
Nor was it this: ObamaKare will be cheaper than your cell phone bill:
But perhaps something even more heinous than those outright, naked, and bald LIES?
From Thomas Lifson at American Thinker: President Obama told an even bigger lie than his promises about keeping your insurance and doctor, if you like them. And Politifact already has a leading candidate for the biggest lie of 2014. Betsy McCaughey explains in the New York Post why his words, “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making,” amount to biggest whopper of all.
Which tells me: you are DEFINITELY going to have the government getting in between you and your doctor. Another sentence from the files of Captain Obvious, in my reckoning.
From the ACA itself with commentary:
Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring “health-care quality,” which of course could mean anything. “The powers given to the secretary are so broad, he or she could literally dictate how all physicians nationwide practice medicine,” warns Congressman Phil Gingrey (R. Georgia), himself a physician.
Gingrey is sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 1311(h)(1)(B). Otherwise, he says, the HHS secretary – a Washington bureaucrat with no medical training – could, for example, bar doctors from doing routine mammogram screenings until female patients turn 50. In short, the federal government will be calling the shots on what patients get.
In effect: some nameless, faceless bureaucrat with the same motivation, inspiration, courage, fortitude, competence, education and salary of your average DMV worker drone will be making Life and Death decisions. About you. Yes. True Death Panels. Sarah Palin was correct.
In consideration of that thought, name one aspect of the federal government — just one — that works flawlessly and is considered the pinnacle of efficiency, modernity and service. That works, say, as well as Amazon or UPS.
Name one.
The American Thinker notes:
We don’t yet know what those rules will be. But you can be sure that the vast cost overruns of Obamacare will mean extreme pressure to cut medical treatment, especially for people the government deems unworthy of investment. Those Obamacare navigators have to be paid, and there are thousands of new IRS agents who don’t come cheap. So grandpa and grandma will just get pain pills and be told to lie down and die. With the likes of Ezekiel Emanuel offering advice, human life is not going to be the first priority. After all, he is on record that that Hippocratic Oath really is a wasteful approach to allocating resources.
Because Ezekiel Emanual (brother of Rahm) says of that pesky Hippocratic Oath:
The rules have not been announced, but we have some hints from the president’s key health advisor when the Affordable Care Act was written, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Early on, he suggested that doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.” His point was that so long as doctors are in charge, cost control would not be possible. “Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality of care are merely lipstick cost control,” he said, “more for show and public relations than true change.”
In contrast, ObamaCare empowers the HHS secretary to limit care by imposing top-down regulations directly on doctors and hospitals. Obama’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr. Donald Berwick, also insisted the federal government must step in between doctors and their patients to curb and redistribute the use of medical resources. Berwick said resources should be allocated based on “important subgroups.” These groups, rather than the individual patient in the doctor’s office, he said, should be the “unit of concern.”
If you are Caucasoid, if you are old, you will not reflect any “unit of concern.” You shall be cast aside.
Yes. That horribly effective ObamaKare.
And its Triage By Fiat.
One sage piece of advice to every young American now: don’t ever get old. If you do, you won’t last long under ObamaKare.
Good luck with that.
BZ
Sad that too few people are veterans. They don’t have the experience of government run health care, either as active duty, or the VA system. Not saying it is all bad, but you, the patient, don’t have much say in your health care decisions.
Hey, still federal. Have to say, though, when my father was ailing — he had five surgeries in his 80s — Tricare took care of him wonderfully. But, on the other hand, he wasn’t mandated to attend a VA hospital. He went to local hospitals.
BZ
Yep, we’ll be dying while OWP… (Old White People)…
And GOWPs, who voted for this crap, will be the first to be like medical dinosaurs. First sacrificed.
BZ
These are scary times!
Oh just hang on, HG, it’s gonna get even wackier!
2014 will be nothing but a Larf Fest!
BZ
I expect part of the method of treatment demanded will be questions regarding gun ownership.
That WILL be part of the questionnaire. People have ALREADY been asked those questions by physicians.
And aspects of your mental health WILL be linked to your perceived Conservatism.
Trust me on this.
The White House, new home of “The Whopper”. I hope Burger King sues.
FIRST:
THANK YOU, .45ACP+P for taking the time to read my blog and then, further, for the time it took to comment.
Please come back, sir.
BZ