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Sarah Palin and anyone else who claims that their are death panels in the Obamacare bill are way off base. There are no death panels called for in either the House or Senate version of the Obamacare bill. If the panels were in the bill it were it would be redundant, you see, they were passed as part of the Porkulus bill, and the panel already exists.Back in February, former NY State Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey described the provision:(Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version). The bill's health rules will affect "every individual in the United States" (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors....... But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and "guide" your doctor's decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis." According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and "learn to operate less like solo practitioners." Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far. ......In March after the stimulus bill was passed the position of National Coordinator of Health Information Technology was filled with a former Kennedy Staffer:
