The Biden-Harris administration is creating a surveillance state.
New and creative ways are being invented to keep tabs on Americans.
And one creepy scheme to use doctors to spy on patients was hatched by Biden-Harris officials.
The federal government starts bribing doctors to ask about gun ownership
Democrats have run into a roadblock in Congress passing their most ambitious gun control proposals.
They’re undertaking a long-term strategy to turn guns into the next cigarette by making guns a public health issue.
Part of the strategy by the Biden-Harris administration is making gun ownership a part of healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) authorized states to allow Medicaid providers to talk with patients who are parents or guardians of kids about gun safety.
Democrats falsely claim that guns are the number one killer of kids based on including 19 years in that age range.
Public health bureaucrats want these conversations to become as common as doctors talking with parents about using a car seat or water safety.
Northwell Health pediatric trauma surgeon and firearm injury prevention researcher Chethan Sathya claimed this was a major step forward.
“For the first time, it’s allowing CMS to consider using Medicaid funds to fund these types of screening questions,” Sathya said.
Northwell, New York’s largest healthcare provider, asks every patient if they own a firearm and if they keep locked and unloaded.
Gun owners who are patients at Northwell are offered gun locks but that is rare in the healthcare industry for now.
Medicaid money is being used to bribe doctors to normalize making gun ownership a part of healthcare.
“The hope is that this normalizes this question as part of routine medical care,” Sathya explained. “When you start funding things, that is the huge incentive for hospitals and providers to integrate this into usual routine medical care, and it provides a revenue stream for that.”
Probing patients about gun ownership is expanding
Medicaid first began asking about gun ownership after President Joe Biden took office in 2021.
The White House announced in October would allow CMS states to “choose to use Medicaid to pay a health care provider for counseling parents and caregivers on firearm safety and injury prevention.”
This has been done out of the White House’s gun violence prevention efforts, not a legitimate healthcare concern.
Healthcare is being politicized to advance a Democrat political priority.
States are free to craft their own programs using Medicaid money for programs to allegedly prevent gun violence.
Public health experts believe doctors must begin talking to their patients about gun storage.
Harvard Medical School pediatrics professor Lois Lee admitted that it’s easier to use kids to have that conversation.
“If you start talking about firearms, depending on where you are, eyes glaze over or people get mad,” Lee said. “But if you talk about keeping kids safe, preventing them from killing themselves, that is a message all of us should share.”
Blue states have pushed for so-called safe storage laws that legally require guns to be kept locked and unloaded inside the home.
Doctors can be another form of social pressure to get gun owners to comply with this demand.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
