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Obama's "MedPAC On Steroids" Proposal Is an Impeachable Crime Against Humanity

July 24, 2009 (LPAC)—President Obama, in a phone interview yesterday with the Washington Post, led off his entire discussion of so-called U.S. health-care "reform," by focussing on how to force cost-reduction on the medical "delivery system" (of hospitals, doctors, laboratories, and other care providers) by the establishment of what he called a "MedPAC on steroids"—an independent agency with the power to make life-or-death decisions about who will get medical treatment, and who will not. This is exactly the same principle as the "T-4"—Tiergarten 4 Committee" policy imposed by Adolph Hitler in 1939, to selectively deny health care, for which the Nazi regime was tried and condemned at Nuremberg.

MedPAC—the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission—was established under the Bush/Cheney Administration, to make recommendations on how to cut repayment to medical care providers for the 65-and-over Medicare ensurees, but last week the White House released draft legislation to give it sweeping, dictatorial powers. The recent model for this is the infamous British N.I.C.E. (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), established in 1999 under Tony Blair, and harking back to British policies which supported the 1939 Hitler T-4 program to begin with. In just 10 years, N.I.C.E. has undermined the British Health System, and raised the death rate for millions.

Minutes after hearing Obama repeatededly state his demand for such an "independent board" last night in his 8 p.m. nationally televised press conference, Lyndon LaRouche commented, "President Obama is now impeachable, because he has, in effect, proposed legislation for which the Hitler regime was condemned in the post-war trials. This is an impeachable offense: to propose such a thing in this time, is an impeachable offense...."

Obama: 'MedPAC on Steroids'

The Washington Post July 22 interview, by editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, opened with the question, "What in your mind are the most important things Congress could do to bend the [cost] curve in health care?" Obama replied with rationalizations and a progress report on his campaign to get Congressional action on a T-4 agency, in the name of cost cutting.

Obama: "Well, you know. I had a meeting not just with [Congressional Budget Office Director] Doug Elmendorf, but also with a number of other health economists this week, and they confirmed what I had been hearing and reading about and studying over the last several months—there are a wide range of delivery system reforms that we can put in place that can make a difference.

"We know that if the Mayo Clinic or Geisinger [Health System, Pennsylvania—both considered relatively "low cost"] are doing things smarter for less money, that there should be ways to incentivize [sic] other health systems, applying these models. So that's one set of major reforms. And what we think is the most powerful lever to achieve those reforms is this MedPac idea that we provided a very detailed proposal to Congress on.

"At this point, I am confident that both the House and the Senate bills will contain what we've been calling 'MedPAC on steriods,' the idea that you continually present new ideas to change incentives, change the delivery system, understanding that because this is such a complex system, we're not always going to get it exactly right the first time, and that there have to be a series of modifications over the course of a series of years, and we have to take that out of politics and make sure than an independent board of medical experts and health economists are providing packages that are continually improving the system. So I think there's general consensus that that is one of two very powerful levers to bend the cost curve...."

President Obama repeated this concept again today at this Town Hall meeting in Shaker Heights, Ohio, saying that an empowered MedPAC would "eliminate waste and save money."

Along with Obama's personal statements, White House staff are heavily campaigning for this Hitlerian policy. Last night's Charlie Rose Show, featured Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Dr. Denis Cortese, CEO of the Mayo Clinic, on the topic of imposing an "IMAC"—Independent Medicare Advisory Council—and transforming the U.S. medical "delivery system." Cortese gave all the standard variations of Hitler line: "There must be a "quasi-independent body." An IMAC will take "health care out of Congress," etc.


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