Stimulus Hides Socialized Healthcare Plan

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:56 PM

By: David A. Patten

Key healthcare provisions buried in the bowels of President Obama’s stimulus plan will set America on the road to socialized medicine, involve the government in your choice of a doctor, and will inevitably trigger another funding crisis that will be used to justify still greater federal intervention in America’s healthcare industry, experts tell Newsmax.

Among the most controversial parts of the bill are new federal guidelines that will require government to decide if a patient should get medical care – not your doctor.

Ironically, the stimulus bill that will cost over $1 trillion will lay the groundwork for a massive healthcare funding crisis in the future, according to senior healthcare fellow Dennis G. Smith of the Heritage Foundation.

Smith says the bill’s plan to provide billions of dollars for states to bring unemployed workers onto the Medicaid rolls will eventually lead to huge budget shortfalls when the federal spigot shuts off.

“It’s going to be very serious,â€