The final
two steps of a country’s journey into tyranny are
government control of health care and confiscation
of firearms; both of which must happen quietly so as
to not alarm the populace. At the risk of appearing
to beat a dead horse, today’s remarks are again
directed at Obamacare. Because so many folks are
mesmerized by things other than politics, they are
missing two subtle, but serious changes in American
healthcare. Poke Aunt Betty; she might want to read
this.
Beginning October 1st, 2014, the United States is
scheduled to implement the World Health
Organization’s newly modified International
Classification of Diseases (ICD). As this is the
tenth alteration, this new classification is labeled
ICD-10; crafty aren’t they? ICD-10 creates an
alpha-numerical code for every imaginable injury or
disease inflicting humans. For example, drowning
because your water skis were on fire is V9027XA. One
of my favorites, V9542XA, is your category if you
are an occupant injured in the forced landing of a
spacecraft. After covering all the bases, and I mean
ALL the bases, the possible classifications jumps
from yesterday’s astronomical 17,000 to a
mind-warping level of 155,000. Here is where this
becomes problematic. All medical personnel will be
required to properly utilize these codes to access
the government controlled healthcare delivery
system. Because some doctors operate under the
illusion we are a free country, they may opt out of
ICD-10, but by doing so, they will also opt out of
receiving payment for services rendered. Freedom
died when government created rights which could only
be bequeathed after first stealing stuff from
someone else. You may not be a doctor or nurse, so
mistakenly think ICD-10 does not affect you. It
does; big time and here is why.
Doctor Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the designers of
Obamacare, recently appeared on the Fox News O’Riley
Factor promoting the advantage of America converting
to Community Health Clinics staffed by nurse
practitioners. In justifying medical decisions made
by paraprofessionals he explained, “You don’t need a
doctor for every part of your healthcare.” This move
to government owned and operated community clinics
is the progressive solution to the M.D. shortage
caused by doctors dropping out of the profession and
students choosing the cheaper and less rigorous
curricula of nurse practitioner or physician
assistant. The healthcare of the future will be
delivered by nurses following flow charts from
diagnosis (ICD-10) to the government approved
therapy, so one staff doctor will oversee tens of
thousands of patients. Never forget, the ruling
class exempted themselves out of Obamacare, so they
are keeping their doctors and the old system.
Imagine this visit to your Community Health Clinic
in 2024.
Suffering a low lumbar fracture from a V9542XA
(spacecraft crash) your neighbor rolls you into the
local community clinic in a wheelbarrow. The
attendant rolls her eyes as she inputs your age into
the federal database; 76-year-olds rarely receive
treatment beyond the little yellow “pain pill”
President Obama spoke of when justifying this new
healthcare plan in 2009. Younger citizens suffering
from a V9542XA receive an MRI before moving to
surgery which is the next fork in the flow chart.
Senior citizens get the yellow pill.
Disgusted, you have your neighbor wheel you home
bearing the pain as best you can. A week passes; the
quality of your life is in the gutter, so you phone
the health clinic yet again. After answering a
series of questions through push-button responses, a
tele-nurse with an Indian accent comes on the line
and explains you are at the final fork of the flow
chart for a V9542XA. Your options are the little
yellow pain pills or the green needle; a euphemism
borrowed from veterinarians meaning euthanasia.
Welcome to free healthcare.
Do not ignore this frightening reality. With the
full implementation of Obamacare, health services
will be rationed mostly by withholding treatment
from the elderly. In the face of this truth, an
extremist wing of Montana politicians who
self-identify as Responsible Republicans have
pledged to join the Democrats in the upcoming 2015
legislative session and pass Medicaid Expansion; the
critical step in launching Obamacare. Unless you
embrace the green needle, a.k.a. government assisted
suicide, as a viable treatment alternative, I urge
you to remove both Responsible Republicans and
Democrats from office before it is too late.
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