Don’t Be Fooled By Obamacare 2.0
August 19, 2009 · carl · Print This Article
There is an old trick that suggests that if you want something, to ask for something totally outrageous first.
When you are told the thing you are asking for is absolutely out of the question, you simply scale back or re-name your request, and chances are you will get what you are asking for.
The White House has put that tactic to good use over the last few days.
Under mounting public opposition to the health care reform bill now before Congress, Barack Obama has backed off on both the “end of life counseling” provision as well as changing his tune on the “public option” section of the bill.
And if the American public falls for this ploy, it will prove to be a disaster.
No matter what phrasing Obama cares to use, this bill as it is written will STILL leave the government and federal bureaucrats in charge of overseeing the quality of health care that you receive.
Your health care will still be rationed, as there is simply no realistic way to provide medical coverage to upwards of 50 million people who are not covered now (many of them non-taxpaying illegal immigrants) without cutting back on services.
By cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare reimbursement spending, doctors and hospitals will simply perform less procedures such as EKG testing, MRI’s, etc.
And it only stands to reason that once the government sees that it is spending less on Medicare treatment, this policy will trickle down to all aspects of health care, regardless of a person’s age.
And if cutting Medicare spending doesn’t work, Obama still has a plan in place to help Grandma and Grandpa shuffle off of this earth a little sooner.
Under the Quality-Adjusted-Remaining-Years provision, the elderly, the disabled and the mentally challenged will still die a little sooner, but the method of bumping them off will seem to be more charitable.
QARY will analyze the cost of a procedure and weigh that cost against the possible “quality remaning years of life” expected out of the person who needs the procedure.
So when doctors have to make a choice between open-heart surgery for a man in his 30’s and chemotherapy for a cancer patient in her 60’s, take a guess as to who moves to the front of the line.
And as far as someone who is disabled, don’t even bother to ask.
As Ezekiel “Doctor Death” Emanuel says, why waste resources on people who have little chance of becoming productive citizens?
The White House is manuvering to dress up one of the worst pieces of legislation in American history in new clothes so that we all want to take it out to dinner.
President Obama, you said it yourself and you should keep it in mind:
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.
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