President Obama's Health Care Plan Could Require Rationing, Warnings Begin

Life News ^ | 4/27/09 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies haven't yet announced a universal health care plan, but warnings are already beginning that it will likely include health care rationing. That's a concern for the pro-life movement because it can lead to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

In a powerful column written in the Washington Post, noted author Charles Krauthammer notes "the math doesn't add up" on covering Americans without cutting back on medical care.

"His universal health-care proposal would increase costs by perhaps $1 trillion," Krauthammer says.

"The hard part is Medicare and Medicaid. In an aging population, how do you keep them from blowing up the budget? There is only one answer: rationing," he explains.

Krauthammer points out that the stimulus package pours $1.1 billion into medical "comparative effectiveness research," which he calls the "perfect setup for rationing."

"Once you establish what is 'best practice' for expensive operations, medical tests and aggressive therapies, you've laid the premise for funding some and denying others," he says.

England and Canada are often used as the examples of the problems and abuses that show up when nations move to governmental-based health care and rationing what patients can receive.

"Britain's National Health Service can deny treatments it deems not cost-effective -- and if you're old and infirm, the cost-effectiveness of treating you plummets. In Canada, they ration by queuing. You can wait forever for so-called elective procedures like hip replacements," the columnist says. "A nationalized health insurance system would ration everything from MRIs to intensive care by myriad similar criteria."

Krauthammer says voters have been sold a bill of goods -- with Obama making promises to voters without talking about consequences.

"Obama, the consummate politician, knows to offer the candy (universality) today before serving the spinach (rationing) tomorrow," he writes. "But there is no escaping rationing. In the end, the spinach must be served."

Rationing may not only affect the elderly, as Fred Barnes notes in The Weekly Standard.

He points out that the recent death of actress Natasha Richardson occurred in a Canadian hospital that had neither scanning equipment nor a neurosurgeon. Nor was there a helicopter available to take her there from the popular ski slopes where she was injured. The Canadian government had decided not to pay for these medical services.

While rationing would curtail lifesaving medical treatment and encourage euthanasia, it would promote abortion says Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.

"The only way for Obama to pay for his health takeover will be through rationing of health care to the elderly," he says.

"The plan Democrats envision will include a seductively framed 'government option' that will prescribe covered services, including abortion in all likelihood, with low cost and coverage mandates that may draw as many as 130 million Americans to it," Perkins adds.

[wagglebee]

"The only way for Obama to pay for his health takeover will be through rationing of health care to the elderly," he says.

An American baby is aborted EVERY 24 SECONDS, cut them.

[wagglebee]

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[b4its2late]

We are so screwed.

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[Cementjungle]

I guess the second 100 days are going to make the first 100 days look like a walk in the park. Fasten your seatbelts folks!

[poobear]

If everyone is dead, WHO WILL PAY THE TAXES?!!!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Here's what people are saying in Canada (dark humour):

“What's the difference between the American and the Canadian health-care systems?

In the U.S., if your daddy gets sick; you lose the house.

In Canada, if your daddy gets sick; you inherit the house.”

[griswold3]

If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it’s free! PJ O’Roarke

The Republicans should go to the floor with the dollar amount required for this bill and insist it be paid for, then let the Dems figure out how to pay for it.
We’re broke, sorry, dems.
You have just run out of our money!

[massgopguy]

Spotted Owls?

[trisham]

bump!

[KeyLargo]

Sufferers pull out teeth due to lack of dentists

By Matthew Moore and agencies Last Updated: 10:04AM BST 19 Apr 2008

Almost half of the dentists questioned said that their surgery was no longer taking NHS patients

People with toothache are resorting to pulling their own teeth because they cannot find a NHS dentist, a study out today says.

* Telegraph TV: DIY dentistry is on the rise

The research, involving more than 5,000 patients in England, also found that as many as six per cent had treated themselves because they could not find a dentist.

Some said they took out their own teeth or fixed broken crowns with glue. One person in Lancashire had carried out 14 separate extractions with pliers.

A researcher at a shopping centre in Liverpool met three separate people in one morning who had pulled out teeth themselves.

Almost three fifths (58 per cent) of dentists said new contracts brought in last year had made the quality of care worse and 84 per cent thought the changes had failed to make it easier for patients to get an appointment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566241/Sufferers-pull-out-teeth-due-to-lack-of-dentists.html

[xkaydet65]

The only way for Obama to pay for his health takeover will be through rationing of health care to the elderly," he says. ******

In his book on future govt healthcare Daschle said it out loud that the later seventy and eighty year olds had to realize they must not be allowed to burden the rest of us.

The elderly, who the dems have been scaring for 40 years with tales of GOP perfidy, are about to be sent to the cattle cars and quietly and humanely dispatched, courtesy of the Democrat Party. Now truly the Party of Death!

[Jagermonster]

The dead voted this administration in, let the dead pay the taxes.

[Aria]

Here’s how I see it.

Young people pay taxes into the system and don’t take much out as long as they are healthy. This includes illegals as long as BO and company can make sure they’re employed.

Retirement aged people are a negative cash drain on the system. So the hastened demise of older people isn’t something the government will regret. If this means denying treatment to older people then, as Tom Daschle said, “tough choices” will have to be made.

I wonder if analyzing the numbers in detail would show that the benefits paid to illegals - the rat’s future insurance to stay in power - are going to basically cost retirees life saving treatment.

[Frantzie]

Well old people (especially those who voted for him0 use too much healthcare. (sarcasm)

He does not need seniors votes anymore thanks to illegals.

[combat_boots]

“If everyone is dead, WHO WILL PAY THE TAXES?!!!”

The Boomers’ deaths’ taxes.

[combat_boots]

So now we know why Terri Schiavo’s case was important as yet another precedent to push.

[Frantzie]

LOL!

How about:
In Canada - the left panders to Muslims.

In America - the left gets Muslims elected to the White House.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

Glenn Beck was talking about the DNA they were taking from babies. I forget the state that didn’t destroy it, or let it leak, but there were court battles and then they just rewrote the State laws to allow it.

Scarry stuff. I guess I could find the details if anyone wanted to know. ;0)

[proudtobeanamerican1]

The whole point was to know who was going to have problems. He even said it was like Eugenics and the movie Gattaca. Do you remember that movie where they were perfect and the “natural” babies couldn’t even get jobs because the weren’t good enough.