Ready For Rationing?
Are you ready for health care rationing? Are you ready to be told what treatments, medicines, and procedures you can or cannot have? Because rationing may be coming soon to your doctor’s office or a hospital near you.
Last week, Obama economic advisor, Larry Summers, expressed Democrats’ desire for “changing the way in which we deliver health care in this country…[W]hether it’s tonsillectomies or hysterectomies…by doing the right kind of cost-effectiveness…some experts estimate that we could take as much as $700 billion a year out of our health care system.”
Do you really trust the same government that can’t oversee AIG, run a hurricane recovery effort, or balance its budget to decide which drugs, procedures, or operations are cost-effective for the American people?
In the stimulus bill, Democrats already passed $1.1 billion in so-called “comparative effectiveness research.” While this language sounds innocuous, it is actually quite dangerous. Here’s how David Obey, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, explained it in the committee’s own report: “those items, procedures, and interventions… that are found to be less effective and in some cases, more expensive, will no longer be prescribed” [emphasis added].
President Obama even hinted at this ominous future in a recent interview with the New York Times, noting that, “the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here…there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place.” In other words, he is saying you and your doctor will no longer make the call, government will.
This is already happening in the United Kingdom, where the national health care board recently confirmed a ban on three of four life-prolonging drugs for its kidney cancer patients. Now, roughly half of those diagnosed with this cancer will not be eligible for the medical care they need.
Is it any wonder that Americans are 14% more likely to survive breast cancer, 35% more likely to survive colon cancer, and almost twice as likely to survive prostate cancer than their British counterparts?
If Washington follows Tom Daschle’s suggestion to create a federal health care planning board that “exert[s] tremendous influence on every . . . provider and payer,” we could face the same denial of treatment—and it will be us and our loved ones who will lose our health care freedom.
Are you ready for government health care? Are you ready for rationing?
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In the News Today:
It was announced today that free Add-a-dicktome and chopoff-a-dicktome’s will be the only procedures available without a waiting list in the new Government run Health Care System.
In a move that will have many breathing a sigh of relief, Christian Caucasian Male, 40 year old car crash victims will be left to die at the scene of automobile crashes.
They will be considered too old to be considered for government treatment, according to the just released Obama actuary table.
Unless Liberalism is dead and burried, the country will not survive.
The Marxists love having the power of life and death over us kulaks and peasants. They, the intelligentsia and nomenklatura will be able to get the best care. We get the shaft.
Socialized medicine is going to kill people.
I suggest we have another revolution and kill the Left before they kill us. Seriously.
They have no problem killing the unborn so this is no surprise.
They will decide who is fit to have care and for how long. Once you are a certain age or have a specific illness they feel is wasteful to try to treat they will just write you off no matter what.
Things are bad in the health industry but the government will do nothing but fuck up the healthcare system into oblivion.
I remember Arlen Specter, not too long ago, was calling for euthanasia of old on life support and not giving drugs to pre-mature infants in incubators.
I hope that piece of garbage dies a very painful death. He looks like a Nasferatu (the old creepy vampire)….
Yes! You have described him perfectly!
Old People Aren’t Dying Fast Enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZzDHzS_tKQ&feature=player_embedded
Sandy,
Two weeks and five days ago my mother’s life was saved by an open heart surgery that would have never been allowed under socialized medicine. They would have been required to let her die. I realize the doctors would not have liked this one bit, but the doctors and patients are no longer going to be in charge.
The Marxists want to kill the unborn and the elderly.
Yes, I fully agree with you Fred.
I am glad your mother got the treatment she needed to live before they take over the system.
It is really odd to fear becoming ill. Or if one of my grandchildren, God forbid, contract a disease and the gov’t deems them unfit for curing. I am amazed to know these type of fears. I am angerd beyond breath.
There need not be ovens. No camps. The lemmings will sign up to die. They’ll usher a willing populace into slaughter.Hell, the fools will dance on the way to their own funerals. They’ll market the hell out of this. I have no doubt that they will develop a line of freaking designer funerals, euthanasia parties, necrophilia orgies will be the new ‘envelope’ to push. They worship death.They will turn it into an industry. I wonder if Planned Parenthood will be the euthanizers. If they didn’t kill you coming in, they’ll usher your ass out.
I keep expecting for America, as a whole, to finally become aghast, appalled…but they, for the most part- they are not.The left has worked decades now to discount the value of life. Today’s young have no reverence for it. They will worship utility. If you contribute, you stay. If not, well….
I’m rambling..so sorry…
“I wonder if Planned Parenthood will be the euthanizers. If they didn’t kill you coming in, they’ll usher your ass out.”
Zee, you are prescient and I fear you are 100% right.
Do not forget the mental health angle. You and I are now considered to be mentally ill because of our beliefs. We will be culled, in some fashion, by the psychiatric community.