We Are All Felons Now » « Rational Dumbasses Are Crazy 


The Usual Lefty Statist Roadblocks and Body Bags
October 24th 2009 Statists, Obama, Socialism, Socialized Medicine, Obama Agenda

Obama declares swine flu a national emergency - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.

The declaration that Obama signed late Friday authorized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules so health officials can respond more quickly to the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States.

The goal is to remove bureaucratic roadblocks and make it easier for sick people to seek treatment and medical providers to provide it immediately.

Uh huh. Why do we have such “bureaucratic roadblocks” in the first place, especially if you have to remove them in order to provide potentially lifesaving health care to people who need it?

Are you sure you want these people in charge of your health care system?

Submit to Stumbled Upon!
-Bill Quick







Comments on this post:

  • john
    October 24th, 2009 | #1

    The quotes in your post don’t match the article.

    Could the article have been updated?

  • Chuck Simmins
    October 24th, 2009 | #2

    One such roadblock, a 200 yard restriction on treatment. Tents within 200 yards of the hospital can bill. Tents 300 yds cannot.

    OTOH, it also allows the HHS to open beds for H1N1 patients without there being the necessary supporting medical devices. ICU must have x monitors, IV pumps, etc. Now HHS can determine that these care devices are not necessary to constitute an ICU bed.

  • Bill Quick
    October 24th, 2009 | #3

    Yeah, it damned well has been updated to remove the “roadblocks” reference.

    I think there is a way to find the previous versions of web pages immediately. The Wayback Machine only works on a six month time span. Anybody know anything else?

  • TraitorHater
    October 24th, 2009 | #4

    Here’s one that looks similar. To find pre-updated AP stuff, I usually type the phrase I’m looking for into Drudge’s “Search Wires”.

  • Bashir Gemayel
    October 24th, 2009 | #5

    Yeah, it damned well has been updated to remove the “roadblocks” reference.

    This seems to have been happening more lately. Some article comes out with a time stamp early in the day, then later on the time stamp has changed, and so has the text to some degree.

  • Bill Quick
    October 25th, 2009 | #6

    Thanks, TH.

comment on this article

Note: Daily Pundit uses the Akismet spam filter, which has been known, on occasion, to start flagging regular commenters' submissions as spam for a while until we can smack it around enough to change its mind. If you're having problems like this, you can bypass Akismet by registering. Your comments are still very welcome whether you register or not. The only drawback of not registering is, if Akismet flags your comment as spam, it may take us a while before we see it and fix it.

Quicktags:

Tags allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <img src="" alt="" /> <li> <ol> <s> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <ul>
Comment Preview (updated when idle):

 


return to main page (at this post)