Yesterday, Obama went on the offensive to deny that government stormtroopers, er, employees, would start visiting old people in their homes to ask them how they want to die. While that is not (to my knowledge, anyway) in the HELP bill, there definitely is a provision to allow home visits to make sure children get all their vaccinations.
I can see that now: "Mrs. Smith, is little Johnny home? We see on his electronic health record that he's behind on his vaccinations. We're here with all the necessary syringes and vaccinations to get him up to date. It shouldn't take more than five minutes."
That scenario is very definitely authorized by the Ted Kennedy underlings who wrote the HELP bill.
Here's what the Prez said to a town hall gathering of AARP members (i.e., old people):
"You know, I guarantee you, first of all, we just don't have enough government workers to send to talk to everybody, to find out how they want to die. I just want to be clear: Nobody is going to be knocking on your door; nobody is going to be telling you you've got to fill one out. And certainly nobody is going to be forcing you to make a set of decisions on end-of-life care based on some bureaucratic law in Washington."Actually, they won't be forcing anyone to make end-of-life decisions. They'll just do it for you, so technically, he's right, and we all lose if we fall for his version of health care reform.
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