Did Alexander King's OECD Demand Obama's Nazi Health Plan?

May 21, 2009 (LPAC)--A paper issued in February of this year by the Economics Department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides a virtual print-out of the Nazi budget-cutting measures for health care, which the Obama Administration is now trying to ram through. The paper, entitled "Health Care Reform in the United States,'' was authored by two OECD bureaucrats (David Carey and Patrick Lenain), and Bradley Herring of Johns Hopkins University.

Given that the OECD's approach to economics was shaped from 1956 to 1974, by none other than genocidal Club of Rome cofounder Alexander King, its prescriptions are not surprising. But the fact that the OECD advises not only the major European nations, but over 100 nations worldwide, in "technical'' terms, makes it a clear and present danger to nations everywhere, not only the United States.

The leading "reforms'' recommended by the OECD paper, which purports to deal with the fact that U.S. health care is more expensive per capita than that of other OECD countries, are, in many cases, explained more bluntly than those of the Obama administration. They include the following:

* the elimination of tax-free status for employer-provided health insurance.

* create a comparative effectiveness institute outside the federal government to "conduct and/or coordinate cost-effectiveness studies and use these results to decide how services would be covered or reimbursed by Medicare.'' The report explicitly says that the aim is to save money, and is a radical departure from Medicare policy of providing coverage for services that are medically effective and appropriate, irrespective of cost!

* decrease the "generosity of supplemental Medicare insurance-benefit designs to reduce moral hazard risks. '' Those risks, of course, are that Medicare recipients will avail themselves of medical care when they need it, instead of when they can afford it. The method, the study shows, for reducing "moral hazard,'' is to increase copays for treatment.

The study also bemoans the fact that Congress has not stuck to a mechanism, established in 1998, called the "sustainable growth rate,'' which was aimed at controlling payments made for physicians' services and in connection to visits to physicians (like lab tests). The goal was to set a ceiling in the aggregate. By this method, doctors' fees were cut by 5.4% in 2004. However, when there was an attempt to use this formula to cut doctors' fees by 10.6% in 2008, Congress voted to reject this cut, and instead take money from the (insurers' boondoggle) Medicare Advantage program. Bush's veto of this decision was overridden by Congress.