Not if you are a congressthing, or can afford exorbitant "supplemental" insurance.
There will just be rationing for the masses, who have to line up at the clinics who will accept the rediculously low payment schedules associated with the gov't regulation.
For the elites, however, there will be higher-priced practices with no waiting, plenty of treatment options, and lots of resources.
The illusion that you'll be sitting in the same waiting room as Gates or Soros is the dream that the libs need to sell the plan.
You can’t spend what you don’t have.
Congress does it every day.
I guess, actually, they are spending what you don't have.
Reducing healthcare spending on the elderly serves several objectives for the progressives:
1) If 1/3 of Medicare expenses are really incurred by seniors in the last 6 months of their lives, it represents real costs savings to the government.
2) Rationing health care expenditures for seniors will lower their life expectancy, reducing not only Medicare expenses but also Social Security expenses as well as expenditures on other social programs benefiting the elderly.
3) Accelerating the death rate of the elderly also helps on the revenue side of government, particularly when high inheritance tax rates are reinstated in 2011. The wealth of the elderly can be taken and redistributed by the government through high inheritance taxes in the name of fairness.
4) Seniors are disproportionately conservative and Republican. Accelerating the demise of the elderly through health care rationing shifts the political balance in this country.
5) For those progressives who disdain the white race, the elderly are disproportionately white. Accelerating the death rate of the elderly hastens the day when whites move into the minority in the US population.