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November 30, 2008
"Personalized" Medicine and Socialized Healthcare
Posted by Dave Blount at November 30, 2008 8:34 PM
This is ominous — given Democrats' open intention to nationalize healthcare as quickly as they can. Under the headline "Obama to Broaden Genetics Role in Medical Care":
"The president-elect has indicated his support for both advancing personalized medicine and increasing (research) funding," said Democratic Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy….
Obama is also interested in the role that personalized medicine could play as an element of changes in the broader health care system.
"Personalized" medicine focuses on statistical tendencies based on genetic makeup. The implications go beyond medicine to politics.
Healthcare bureaucrat Mark McClellan approvingly remarks:
If we're thinking about reforming the health care system, we should be thinking about what medicine will be like down the road when health care reform is fully implemented.
We sure should. What will healthcare be like when the government is faced with inevitable supply problems after setting the price of a precious and limited commodity to free? Obviously it will be rationed, like it is in England and Canada. "Personalized" medicine that focuses on patients' genetic makeup will come in handy when deciding who gets healthcare and who doesn't.
For some real healthcare savings, personalized medicine will be combined with Obama's astonishingly fanatical support for abortion. Being diagnosed Down syndrome is already a prenatal death sentence in most cases. Before long the same may be true of a genetic predisposition to high blood pressure.
At least this could mean fewer women being punished with a baby.
On a tip from Cool Zero.
