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FOXNewshealth.com Managing Editor Dr. Manny Alvarez on the Congressional hearing to ration health care.
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A key provision -- have in the health care law Obama care.
-- could give the government the ability to control Medicare costs but also made the services that are covered under.
Take care of -- government would make decisions on treatments based not only on effectiveness but the cost and Dr.
Manny Alvarez managing editor fox.
With us for this week's edition medical dollar's gonna see a doctor -- morning guys so we're talking a lot about debt deficits is Brett was just on doing and maybe we're missing something in health care that we should be focused more on well you know right now the looking at the.
The formation -- the approval of this commission which is courses point obamacare.
This commission is a non elected officials -- appointed by the president.
And their job is going to be to basically.
Regulate the cost of Medicaid and Medicare mostly Medicare.
Now you know yesterday I was listening to the judgeship -- -- -- and looking at the legality eve of of of having this commission and one of the things that struck me is that he -- to be unconstitutional.
Now I from a practicing precision and physician's perspective can tell you that I find it.
Problematic because this commission really.
Basically is gonna look at statistics.
Dollars and sense and it's really not gonna look at the science of whether or not a procedure needs to be approved for not.
So this is a way that this key in this health care bill has introduced now wait to ration health -- This is another step closer to socialize -- And it doesn't start that technically until 2014.
I and they do something about it before then well.
I mean did that congress can go ahead and and try to remove this from the bill.
All from the Obama care held health bill and and basically say no.
If there's gonna be any rationing of -- thing and how we gonna spend the dollars and cents that we have towards Medicaid and Medicare -- should be the functionality of the congress.
-- our elected officials and they respond to the people and if they remove it what does that do to the cost side of it.
Well look and -- there's not that there's no doubt that we have do something about the cost because you -- healthcare is out of control but what I believe is an empowering the individual if we empower individuals and we still look you have.
-- skin in the game here.
Com and if you miss utilize health -- this is gonna cost you -- war that is ripping up Medicare as we know I think congressman Paul alliance I think.
I think you have to go a little bit in that direction because ultimately.
Either you gonna end up with rationing and socialized medicine and total control by the by the government.
Or and the system doesn't have the money to sustain current we -- That's what government health care it's called Medicare and get worried about the cost then -- the government's the only people who going to be able and then I -- -- you know -- I believe in empowering the people and I think -- -- public is ready for that.
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