By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Doctors across the nation are reacting with concern over a new program to be launched by the Obama Administration which will involve a team of "mystery shoppers" who will pose as patients and call doctor's offices for appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In an effort to bypass Congressional opposition, President Barack Obama is using a recess appointment prerogative to appoint a controversial physician who is a self-professed supporter of health care rationing to serve as Chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
After turning down 31 common-sense amendments to the proposed government-run health care plan, the U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on a bill that includes radical new measures including mandated national ID cards, government restricted access to disabled citizens and mandatory end-of-life counseling sessions for seniors.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Experts are saying the health care plan pending in the U.S. House will discriminate against the elderly, not only denying them care in favor of treating the young but forcing them to submit to “counseling sessions” every five years that will amount to nothing short of convincing them to die.
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