More on Obamacare

  Update: Hey, let's rename it! Maybe all the negativity will go away then!
  Update II: From NRO Corner:

The original policy became controversial out of the reasonable fear that in the drive to cut costs, the “counseling” could become “pressure” to refuse care. The assisted-suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices, for example, bragged that it helped author the legislative provision — which would also have permitted outside experts to be delegated the counseling task. I am convinced that Compassion and Choices hopes to become the Planned Parenthood of death, and being paid by the government to counsel on end-of-life decisions would be a big step in that direction.

  The Daily Beast has an article by a Reason magazine writer about the current state of what is coming with Obamacare. It is chock full of horror stories. Here's a glimpse:

• The payment schemes are so onerous, confusing and punishing that those families who are too poor to be able to afford the bill will be penalized with even greater bills.
• Doctors and patients will face criminal charges and hefty penalties, up to $50,000, if they mistakenly offer "ineffective" or "unnecessary" care. The government will not need to prove "intent to defraud." They can just assign the penalty.[Of course, unnecessary is a relative term. Many procedures dare instituted to avoid lawsuits if medical personnel miss something. So will torte reform finally take place, in essence placing the medicine/the government off limits to lawsuits? Some deal that would be. Of course, much of medical billing-said to be 10%-is already fraudulent-grand schemes run by organized crime and others. But we know how well the government deals with grand fraudulent schemes, having instituted some of their own. Can you say Pigford? more on that later]

  This is an excellent article, spelling out many of the problems inherent in this burdensome health care program. In addition, talk of the death panels has returned.

  Encouraging folks to make the "right" medical decisions...does that sound like something we want the government in charge of, given that most of the money in health care goes toward the care of the older (60+) and the young under 5, now considered unnecessary to the culture, unless, of course, you are one of the elite? I know a few people who, quite ready to die, will want to hang on just to make the government mad.

   What is also ominous is the increasingly heavy fist that government entities are wielding with regard to citizens' rights. 
  Six law enforcement agency personnel coming to the home of a pilot who posted a video depicting the reality that pilots are security checked but not the numerous ancillary personnel who work behind the scenes, many of whom are immigrants? Rationalizing the intimate patdowns of citizens' private parts? Talk of expanding the "enhanced" (newspeak alert) patdowns to malls, hotels?
  Mmmm, you think the 1700s were a revolution? 
  Just watch.