Comments on: GovernmentSpeak

By: Richard Laplante

Richard Laplante — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:28:33 +0000

The last time (and several visits prior to this) I saw my doctor, she sat there with a tablet pc on her lap and asked me what medications I was taking.
To which I replied – “Don’t you know? You prescribed them.”
Oh, I must be missing something here.
I asked about the pc and was told about how much it was improving the service I was receiving.
Maybe they’ll get new pc’s that keep records electronically. I can’t wait to be asked what species I am…

By: Mark Aster

Mark Aster — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:22:51 +0000

For all those who thought Sarah Palin was crazy, here’s a real example of government death panels encouraging our veterans to leave the planet and the VA health care system just a little earlier than planned: http://www.rihlp.org/pubs/Your_life_your_choices.pdf

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:48:07 +0000

A government database of electronic health records would enable interrogators and prosecutors to find a victim’s pressure points very quickly. Refuse to divulge information, or to plead guilty? No problem. They’ll just put a hold on your father’s heart medication prescription, or your daughter’s insulin prescription, until you come around.

By: Dan Davis

Dan Davis — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:10:24 +0000

Here’s what I imagine; forty or fifty leftists in the country who actually understand that a scenario like the one in play here is even possible. The rest, like Secretary Sebelius, simply sign on as true believers who are oblivious to the deeper designs of those actually doing the central planning. Problem here is that Republicans are absolutely the wrong people to beat this back. Heck, they might have come up with this themselves if Obama hadn’t beat them to it. Newt’s been preaching upgrading health care information systems for quite a while. Do you think anyone in Congress would listen to his arguments and not instinctively imagine a guvment program to accomplish it?