This is just sick. Makes me sick! Read this article. Tell me if that phrase “government’s role in health care” gives you the shivers like it gives me the shivers.
Senate Panel Previews Electronic Health Technology
The Senate Committee on Aging last week offered a preview of the government’s future role in health care, showing how Americans will interact with doctors and other health care providers. The demonstration offers a glimpse at an overlooked effect of health care reform.
The effort, loosely called e-Health or e-Care, combines health-care technology with 21st-century Internet connectivity. It will allow doctors to interact with their patients through innovations such as video chats, telephone health checkups, and home-health monitoring devices that relay data over wireless Internet connections.
Home-health monitoring devices? 
Hey, I like the Internet…. it’s a great place to get information on best term life insurance quotes or whatever. But I want to be in control of me, ok?
“The development of the broadband network and health information technologies has the potential to truly transform health care and simultaneously enable better outcomes and lowering costs,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
One of the new health technologies on display last Thursday was an automatic drug dispenser that can monitor and adjust medication dosages wirelessly, allowing doctors to tailor dosages of drugs such as insulin without having to schedule in-person visits with patients.
“What we’re talking about, folks, is using a device like this one,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said, as he displayed the small device. “It attaches to the patient’s skin and is loaded with drugs that are administered in the exact way that the doctor prescribes – wirelessly.
“That means that a doctor can vary the doses based on the information the doctor is receiving [from the monitor]. The patient doesn’t have to go in to the doctor and then the pharmacy to change his or her prescription,” he said.
So is this the reason for the government mandate to get everyone connected with broadband??
Am I the only one really creeped out about this? The government is forcing us to have their health “care.” Then they force us to get rigged to the computers, to have drugs or whatever dispensed by SOMEONE ELSE through a WIRELESS connection. This is INSANE.
These senators act like they have a bunch of new toys to play with. Us.
What the heck ever happened to getting the government out of our bodies, huh???????? Where’s Betty Friedan and Jane Fonda now?!
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