ObamaCare: Politicizing Medical Decisions

Patriot Room ^ | 11-09-09 | Scott Martin

[Scott Martin]

When has someone lived long enough that they are no longer worth certain treatments? We're about to find out the federal government's opinion on the subject. Read the following paragraph and then read it again.

Every decision of what to insure or not—when an MRI can be used, or whether a stage-four breast cancer patient can get Avastin or some future expensive drug—will become subject to political intervention over moral disputes or budget constraints. Heretofore, these decisions have largely been made between a doctor and patient. This is the real "right to life" issue.

Every single one of these issues will be decided by politicians. If you think we have problems getting new treatments and drugs approved today, what happens when we have lobbyists going to government to prevent it from allowing the use of a new, competing option? We are about to legislate a system than cannot work and will, necessarily, make health care worse in this country than it would be otherwise.

Health care cannot be a right, because it has a limited supply. If you try to make it a right, you must ration the supply and the options. In the past, we have dealt with limited supply through the free market, a system that has led continual improvements in care and one that provides it's own rationale for who receives care.

Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in the House will destroy that system and replace it with a highly-politicized failure that will crush medical advances at the same time....

[Adder]

or budget constraints.

Well, dang it! They said it would save us a TON of money! How else do you think thats going to happen?

/sarc