Obama Dooms Seniors to Ravages of Aging

Accuracy in Media ^ | 1-2-14 | Betsy McCaughey

[tbw2]

If the doctor can’t accept the Medicare rate plus cash out of pocket, can the patient at least pay all of the cost in cash?

[jacquej]

from reading the article, it doesn’t seem like we can. This affects me, by the way.

Now my prayer is that our Lord takes me home quickly.

[afraidfortherepublic]

One doesn’t need to be a “lib” to be affected by this. We conservatives will suffer right alongside the vultures who gave us this abomination.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I know lots of seniors (including myself) who did not support Obama and who worked their tails off for the Republican choice(s). It’s the retired teachers/public employees who put this clown and his coherts in office.

[sport]

Back when obamacare was being debated and enacted into law. Those of us, including Sarah Palin, who tried to warn theses very people that are now crying about what obamacare would actually do were called every kind of son of a bitch under the sun. Now that they are getting what they wanted, we are supposed to feel sorry for them. As far as I am concerned, they can continue to cry.

Obama is laughting at them for believing him number one and number two , even though they worship the ground he pisses on, he holds them in the bases of contempt.

[RightField]

Seniors with severe osteoarthritis who opt for knee replacement are less apt to succumb to heart failure and have a 50% higher chance of being alive five years later than arthritic seniors who don’t undergo the procedure, according to peer-reviewed scientific research.

Precisely. Don't kick the senior entitlement problem down the road, just eliminate the recipients.

Full disclosure: I turn 65 in August.

[Jane Long]

Oh, I know that and agree. But, we conservatives are the ones who (tried) sounding the clarion, only to be called radicals and troublemakers.

I think the libs who said things like "but now, EVERYONE will have affordable health care" and "I've paid into Medicare all these years while paying for private health care, and I cannot wait to get my *free* healthcare" need a good dose of reality (that's so well given in this article).

[nascarnation]

Seniors are majority Republican.

The problem is 2.46m die every year and are replaced by 2.5m reaching 18 and immigrants (legal & illegal) who are overwhelmingly Democrat.

[Prospero]

Wouldn’t it be nice if America had an opposition party?

[angry elephant]

Remember, AARP supported Odumbocare.

[Grampa Dave]

Cataract surgery may be the cheapest and most economical way to add productive years to seniors.

3 years ago my cataracts rapidly went from monitoring to really severe. I stopped driving because I couldn’t see (state of California said my vision was good enough for a drivers license including a Class B for smaller trucks.)

My self diagnosis: Blind in my left eye (my dominant eye), and I could not see very well out of my right eye). I had no distance vision and zero sideway vision.

So I finally met Medicare’s strict requirements even at that time, and I opted for the cataract surgery removal and insertion of accommodating lenses (no need for reading glasses and any other RX glasses). I paid the extra bucks out of pocket for these lenses.

24 hours after my left eye had the cataracts replaced, my vision went from blind basically to 20/20. I resumed driving.

A few weeks later, I had my right cataract removed and replaced with my second accommodating lens. My vision is better than when I was 18. It was 20/10 then, still is.

A few months before, about the time I lost the vision in my left eye due to the cataract, I had a serious fall. I misjudged a curb, stepped, missed it, fell, hurt my knees and hit my head with a good whack.

According to ER doctor friends, er nurses and eye doctors, seniors with severe cataracts have a lot of severe falls because their automatic depth perception becomes faulty when their dominant eye is impaired with the cataract. They felt that cataracts next to dehydration caused more falls in seniors than other causes.

Since my cataracts were removed and replaced with my new accommodating lenses, I feel steady and sturdy when walking and have not had any falls. This past year, I turned 75 and had take an eye tests for my Driver’s license renewal. I had 20/10, an the lady said my vision was as good or better than the younger people.

I was able to return to hiking up and down hills and local trails, fly fishing, kayaking and other outdoor activities without any fear of falling or not seeing what was ahead and around me.

[Grampa Dave]

“Those of us who know the outcomes in advance can at least figure out ways to mitigate the effects. Those who believed all of this crap will be the big losers all the way around because they will have no way, or are intellectually incapable of finding work-a rounds.”

Which is why they believe in big government and vote for the rats as the rats make their last years miserable.