Monday, May 4, 2009

Selective interference

It seems the Obama administration will be selective when it comes to a decision between "you and your doctor".

Barack Obama believes that the decision to have an abortion is profoundly difficult for women and families and that these decisions are personal, between a woman, her family, her God and her doctor, and that politicians should stay out of it.

But other health decisions should be mandated by the government:

“Whether it’s tonsillectomies or hysterectomies…procedures are done three times as frequently [in some parts of the country than others] and there’s no benefit in terms of the right kind of cost-effectiveness, by making the right kind of investments and protection, some experts…estimate that we could take as much as $700 billion a year out of our health care system,” said Summers on “Meet the Press” Sunday, quoted in The Washington Times.

No comments:

Post a Comment