Posted on 08/18/2009 9:24:22 PM PDT by Kozman
Economist Martin Feldstein is probably coming as close as an Obama advisor can to letting the country know that a death panel may be on its way. Feldstein was appointed by the President Obama to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board... Got that, "eliminate high cost, low value treatments"? Do you think that means a 20 year old youth with a broken leg who has many tax paying years ahead of him, or Grandma, where it is decided that it just isn't worth the cost of keeping her alive through one more Christmas?...
(Excerpt) Read more at economicpolicyjournal.com ...
Well, the ‘RATS have got to do something to “save” their failed Social Security and Medicare programs. Those “historical” death panels should be able to get the job done.
It appears that the lessons learned from WW2 are lost on Mr Feldstein
Grandma just got kicked under the bus again. Make that under ground again.
See here http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99325
If you are a Democrat that they give you everything the taxpayer can afford + more but if you are a Republican then you are S.O.L.
You have made a good point. By getting rid of grandma that will give Social Security and Medicare some relief. These people are evil plain and simple.
Contentions HR3200 does not mandate end of life discussions lack credibility. Those 1,017 pages must be evaluated after they metastasize throughout the U.S. Code. The bill profoundly impacts many bureaucracies, but for this analysis the impact on HHS requires review.
The stimulus bill, changing Title XIII, provided the HHS Secretary the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to implement HR3200 provisions. This bureaucracy will adopt and utilize information technology providing an electronic framework for coordination and flow of recommendations and policies for knowledge, experience, duplicated or appropriate care, best practices and research, and reduction of medical errors.
Decisions will be guided by a panel exceeding 20 members with over 90% appointed by the dominate political regime and only one required physician. Among three separate reports, one evaluation must include health technologies meeting senior and disabled individual needs, and identifying innovation barriers. Health care provider participation becomes mandatory under Section 13112 of the HITACT Act, if one participates in any government program, including Medicare targeting seniors.
Congress provided no guidance for massive regulations needed for implementation. Obviously, the bureaucracy must define gate keeping guidelines deciding what information resides within their comprehensive information base. Regulations also reflect the intent of Congress (not will of the people), incorporating ideas politicians consider too sensitive for public debate.
Physicians currently discuss end of life issues when explaining proposed procedures, so legislation only confiscates privacy and freedom. Remember, just because you’re not paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
Multiply this by a couple thousand other boondoggles and you've got an idea where your two trillion dollars went.
Yes, there will be a death panel. It doesn't matter if they take some verbiage out of the bill that is too obviously explicit, it doesn't matter because the entire logic of the bill points toward a death panel.
Of course they won't call it that, but thats what it will be. They will do a cost benefit analysis on your treatment options, and that will be the menu of treatment options your doctor gets to choose from.
You won't necessarily know what treatments are being denied to you, because they simply were never available in the first place.
There is a certain amount of this happening already under the current system both public and private. But it is still porous enough that if you are able to shoulder part of the cost, and if your doctor is willing to go to bat for you, you can get the treatment you want and need.
That "porosity" in the system won't be there once Obamism is the law of the land. Your doctor will have no incentive to try to bypass the limitations.
Did Obama say he didn't become president in order to kill grandma? Yes, he did say that. But what is more certain is that he didn't become president to leave you alone. He became president to give you the benefit of his great and mighty wisdom whether you like it or not.
Some of these old coots should look in a mirror and see that they are among those who would be cast into the LaBrea Tar Pits due to age or disability..they are so brave...
JUST IN ...
Democrats, realizing the success of the President’s “Cash For Clunkers” rebate program, have revamped a major portion of their National Health Care Plan.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Sen. Reed are expected to make this major announcement at a joint news conference later this week. I have obtained an advanced copy of the proposal which is named....
“CASH FOR CODGERS” and it works like this... Couples wishing to access health care funds in order to pay for the delivery of a child will be required to turn in one old person. The amount the government grants them will be fixed according to a sliding scale. Older and more prescription dependent codgers will garner the highest amounts.
Special “Bonuses” will be paid for those submitting codgers in targeted groups, such as smokers, alcohol drinkers, persons 10 pounds over their government prescribed weight, and any member of the Republican Party.
Smaller bonuses will be given for codgers who consume beef, soda, fried foods, potato chips, lattes, whole milk, dairy products, bacon, Brussel sprouts, or Girl Scout Cookies.
All codgers will be rendered totally useless via toxic injection. This will insure that they are not secretly resold or their body parts harvested to keep other codgers in repair.
Remember you heard it here first...
I’m not running the show, BUT if I was the boss: I would look for all of the DNC ads accusing the GOP of wanting to take Grandma’s wheelchair, meds, social security, etc when the GOP was pushing medicare reform. I would saturate the airwaves with snippets of thse ads.
The time is ripe to use their own words against them at a time when they are plotting to do the very same thing. The window might not be open much longer.
PING!
Hold on. The blog entry you posted is based on a Wall St. Journal piece by Feldstein. According to the Journal, “Mr. Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, is a professor at Harvard and a member of The Wall Street Journal’s board of contributors.” Nothing there about him being an Obama advisor.
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It’s in the STIMULUS Bill already, isn’t it?
Mengele coming to deal with the decrees of Obama and his Gestapo.
The lawmakers have conveniently exempted themselves from the death panels...
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