Are Incumbents Desperate 8 Days Before Election?

Healthcare Reform & Elections:  Money Power & Death ... where is America headed? By Jane M. Orient M.D.   Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas In the days just before the election incumbents are desperate.  They will do anything to prevent reasoned debate on the central issue where is America is headed toward the consolidation of central government power?  At its center is the giant power struggle between the ruling elite & productive Americans.  Look for a blitz of attack ads false accusations and outright election fraud.   The appealing message from our rulers is empowerment." But this does not mean empowerment of:

1. The uninsured
2. The unemployed
3. Food stamp recipients
4. Illegal aliens and
5. Other needy persons.

It means consolidation of power at the top and the disempowerment of any potential rivals:

1. Successful industries
2. Prosperous professionals
3. Even small businesses that are still solvent & independent.

Like small doctors practices. Many of the issues swirling around before this election are mere distractions. Giving people a handout instead of a hand up never makes them stronger. It makes them more dependent and turns them into an army of pawns who can be counted on to do the will of those who feed them. They reliably vote for their supposed benefactors. And some of them also register illegals to vote disrupt town halls or tea parties key cars displaying signs for challengers steal campaign signs disseminate slander and try to intimidate people. If things get really bad they could become an army of rioters looters and worse. The productive Americans who work every day mind their own business take care of their families obey the law and make the country function are being bled through redistributive taxes which primarily benefit those who will soon be strong enough to trample their liberties and reduce them to poverty. The tax donors will have to cooperate with the rulers and censor their own protests or else. NPR sent a message through Juan Williams. If they can do it to someone with an audience as large as his nobody is safe from the thought police. Nowhere is the threat to professionals and those whom they serve more apparent than in ObamaCare if you read the actual law and not the glossy flyers sent by Medicare at taxpayer expense. The requirements of the law are so costly and onerous that most physicians if they continue to practice at all will be forced into accountable care organizations." Accountable to whom? To the System that is to the elite decisionmakers."  Accountable for what? For reducing costs" (that means spending on medical care) and for implementing best practices." The first target is the elderly" (those over the age of 65) and others who might be near the end of life" since that is where most of the medical money goes. Not incidentally judging by the crowd at tea parties older Americans can also be a problem just because they know something of American history and have lived most of their lives in a free society. We have heard that ObamaCare is funded partly by redistributing Medicare savings" of some $500 billion over 10 years. This is less than half a truth. If the 10-year period starts with full implementation in 2014 rather than in 2010 the amount is $800 billion states Peter Ferrara in his book The Obamacare Disaster. And over the first 20 years of implementation the amount rises to nearly $3 trillion. ObamaCare advocates claim they can do this by cutting out the 30 percent of services that are unnecessary" as determined by them. A knee replacement for example probably doesnt save your life it is not necessary" to be able to walk or to be pain free. And it will also cut out fraud" which increasingly is defined to include unnecessary" services as well as those coded incorrectly or not meeting the established standard of care." There are no death panels. And no euthanasia.  In fact the law takes care to specify that physicians and institutions are protected against discrimination or retaliation for refusing to participate in physician-assisted suicide. However this protection explicitly does not extend to refusal to participate in overmedication or withdrawal of treatment or food and water. More ominously we already see state laws proposed to immunize physicians from criminal or civil liability or discipline for carrying out the terms of a POLST form (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) though they may be disciplined for failure to do so. Keep in mind that these days life-sustaining treatment" includes food and water especially if artificially" administered say because the patient is too heavily medicated to be able to swallow. Such palliative sedation" is a new subject for discussion in the medical journals that have been advocating Obama-style reform" for decades. No the sedative doesnt kill the patient it just keeps her more comfortable while she is dehydrating and also keeps her from taking deep breaths or moving around. So within two weeks she is dead if not from the underlying disease then from dehydration or the pneumonia or blood clots resulting from immobility. Its not a very long stretch to envision doctors being prosecuted for failing to carry out patients alleged wishes for early death through sedated dehydration. Before it comes to that doctors will just be co-opted into the System or marginalized as being greedy" disruptive" or paranoid" if they insist on following the Oath of Hippocrates. In the days just before the election incumbents are desperate. They will do anything to prevent reasoned debate on the central issue of where America is headedtoward the consolidation of central government power. They may even admit to minor errors and promise to tweak" fundamentally flawed laws like ObamaCare. Look for a blitz of attack ads false accusations and outright election fraud. Reformers" talk a lot about fragmentation" of things like medical care. Their real fear is fragmentation of their power. Thats what a thorough housecleaning this election would mean. It would give Americans who believe in our founding principles a chance to take back our country. Failure to seize this opportunity probably spells the death of freedom and literal death for the most vulnerable first. Jane M. Orient M.D. Executive Director of Association of American Physicians & Surgeons has been in solo practice of general internal medicine since 1981 and is a clinical lecturer in medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She also authored YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care published by Crown. Association of American Physicians & Surgeons has been a voice for patients and physicians independence since 1943.