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WLF s Civic Communications Program publishes In All Fairness in the national edition of the New York Times. The op-ed feature reaches over 5 million readers in 70 major markets, as well as a diverse group of thought leaders, decision makers, and the public. THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY, July 18, 2011
the availability of opioids, leaving scores of patients with debilitating pain and doubt. At the national level, numerous laws have vastly expanded the number of people eligible for federal Medicare assistance. Instead of figuring out how to pay for all those new recipients, Congress shifted cost cutting responsibility through an Daniel J. Popeo ObamaCare provision to a Chairman barely accountable adviso- Washington ry board. Starting in 2014, Legal Foundation it could effectively cut benefits for millions of seniors. Even worse, federal officials seem to have just realized that these new Medicare recipients will need doctors, and are worried about whether primary care physicians will turn away government-insured patients. To test doctors willingness to treat Medicare patients, health bureaucrats designed a plan this past spring to secretly investigate primary care physicians with mystery shoppers. Once The New York Times exposed this truly bad idea, federal officials abandoned the plan, but it shows how far government will go to solve problems of its own creation. All this is just the beginning of efforts to permanently implant bureaucracy into Americas health care system. Governments faith in itself may be unshakable, but we just cant trust it to make life and death medical decisions. The cost of failure lowered quality of life for all is far too high.
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