The Answer To Rationing

That's right. I just read a story about how they are diagnosing people over the phone in England.

What a great idea. Staff hundreds of phone lines with people who needs jobs and give them the health symptom chart similar to those used for diagnosing computer problems at call centers in India (better still ship the jobs to India so no one can understand the diagnosis).

Don't believe this is happening? Read here.

A 16 year old girl died because of this only weeks after another young girl died. The first girl was diagnosed with H1N1 as was this girl. The first actually had meningitis. This girl, Charlotte Hartey, had tonsillitis!

Yes, government controlled health care is perfect for everyone.

Of course, the news of the day is how the White House is deciding that the "public option" is not a necessary part of the health care plan. As if that was the only problem with the bills being proposed? They still do not have a clue. There are thousands of pages being offered for consideration and hundreds of those pages have problems which restrict personal freedoms, hinder proper care, and misappropriate tax dollars while increasing the tax burden on all of us.

On top of this, the Washington Times has a commentary piece that shows how adding a simple word can actually cost the government health care plan billions. How? By changing the the methods of how doctors judge the necessity of care. The government wants to add "or medically appropriate" to the diagnosis process which means that not only will medically necessary tests be paid, but so will any test or procedure deemed appropriate. Read it for yourself.