Lefties have been blathering on and on about invasion of privacy under Bush for years but where are they now that the government is trying to get between you and your doctor and force your doctor to make decisions based on standards that may not be applicable to your situation or face penalties for not doing so:

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. 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.”

It’s bad enough that the insurance company is involved in the decisions concerning our health care but at least they have a financial stake. The government isn’t paying for my health care, why the heck should they be involved?
You guys better hope you never get cancer that doesn’t respond to standard treatment or you’re looking at a death sentence. Clearly, this new agency won’t allow your doctor to give you expensive, experimental treatment. If this agency was created 9 years ago, my brother-in-law would be dead instead of going through another round of costly treatments (the drug he’s taking now is the next generation of the drug that put him in remission).
But what’s really amazing about this provision is that the Democrats are going after the elderly:

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).

How cost-effective is it to treat cancer in the elderly?
Susan thinks that the Democrats secret agenda is to reform Social Security through this provision, denying care to seniors mean less of them live into their 80’s and 90’s. That may be but it could also be their attempt to do something about global warming by thinning the herd.