This just in: The government knows more than doctors about medicine.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

I was talking with my roommate today, and he said something I found poignant.

"When socialism comes to America, it will be wearing a white lab coat."

Well ladies and gentlemen, it's closer than ever today. This new part of the Porkulus bill is going to give us the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology. Now, the first part is a good thing. It's going to make our health records electronic, to prevent duplicate tests and errors. However, let's look at the second part of this. The second part calls for the government deciding what treatment you get by what they deem necessary and cost effective. Now, if this isn't the start nationalized health care, I don't know what is. Where does the government get off deciding what type of care you get? This bill scares me to no end. It should be up to the doctors and families about what procedures should and shouldn't be done. Need a heart transplant? Too bad. Not cost effective. But you can pay for it? Oh no, you can't do that, nationalized health care won't allow that.

Until next time, I'm that Conservative College Guy and we are America.