Feds Start to Ration Care for Heart Disease and Cancer

[Stephen Frank]

Massive rationing of health care has begun in the United States. We know about the mammogram and Pap cut backs--In Europe the mammogram system that is proposed for us causes a 30% higher death rate among women with breast cancer.

Now, the Feds are cutting back on other health care procedures.

• Transthoracic echo with spectral and color flow Doppler (93306): 42 percent cut
  • Left heart catheterization (93510-26): 24 percent cut
  • EKG: 21 percent cut
  • Level 4 established patient office visit (99214): 11 percent increase
  • CMS projects that the proposed changes would reduce total Medicare payments to cardiology by 11 percent.

This is from the American College of Cardiology.

So, under the ObamaCare doctors would receive less reimbursement, but 31 million more patients. How soon before the doctors either turn away patients (rationing) or just retire?

"But this boost for GPs comes at the expense of certain specialties. The 2010 rules, which will be finalized next month, visit an 11% overall cut on cardiology and 19% on radiation oncology. They're targets only because of cost: Two-thirds of morbidity or mortality among Medicare patients owes to cancer or heart disease."

Government health care is death panels using small cuts, eventually you will bleed out and die. Obama is cutting heart disease and cancer care--it is your life--do you care to fight back?

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[joazinha]

For heavens' sake, just DEPORT the ILLEGALS!!! There are AT LEAST 4 MILLION of them in CA ALONE!