MORE WINGNUT HYSTERIA

Betsy McCaughey writes in Bloomberg News that the stimulus bill is a stealth approach to nationalized health care. She seems terrified about uniformity:

The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

She specifically cites pages 442 and 446 of H.R. 1 EH and all I can find is a plan to computerize our health care records to cut down on all the damn paperwork costs while improving care at the same time. I don't see anything about "enforcing uniformity" on either page.

Here's page 442:

1 ‘‘(1) ensures that each patient’s health informa

2 tion is secure and protected, in accordance with ap

3 plicable law;
4 ‘‘(2) improves health care quality, reduces med

5 ical errors, reduces health disparities, and advances
6 the delivery of patient-centered medical care;
7 ‘‘(3) reduces health care costs resulting from
8 inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, du

9 plicative care, and incomplete information;
10 ‘‘(4) provides appropriate information to help
11 guide medical decisions at the time and place of
12 care;
13 ‘‘(5) ensures the inclusion of meaningful public
14 input in such development of such infrastructure;
15 ‘‘(6) improves the coordination of care and in

16 formation among hospitals, laboratories, physician
17 offices, and other entities through an effective infra

18 structure for the secure and authorized exchange of
19 health care information;
20 ‘‘(7) improves public health activities and facili

21 tates the early identification and rapid response to
22 public health threats and emergencies, including bio

23 terror events and infectious disease outbreaks;
24 ‘‘(8) facilitates health and clinical research and
25 health care quality;