Posted on 04/11/2014 1:30:04 PM PDT by chessplayer
Study estimates impact of controversial changes that raised treatment threshold
(Excerpt) Read more at webmd.com ...
Saving bucks, Obamacare style
When do they start booting people off dialysis?
My mother, 97, recently told me, you know none of our relatives had any medical help whatsoever. They all looked healthy as horses. They all died in their sixties or seventies of stroke or heart attacks. I think if they’d just controlled their blood pressure they’d probably all have lived to my age.
Do you really have to ask?
Can you say “DEATH PANELS”?
Death panels.
Who are “they?”
“In February, the Eighth Joint National Committee released controversial guidelines that relaxed blood pressure goals in adults 60 and older from 140/90 to 150/90. The guidelines also eased blood pressure targets for adults with diabetes and kidney disease.”
150/90 is pretty high.
“...The researchers also said that 13.5 million adults — most of them older than 60 — who were considered to have poorly controlled blood pressure would now be viewed as having adequately managed blood pressure. That includes 5.8 million adults who would no longer require blood pressure pills....”
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Well, this will certainly justify the government (under the Obamacare umbrella) requiring that insurance stop paying for the prescription costs for these 13.5 million folks.
Hell, the majority of these folks likely don’t vote for the DimocRATS anyhow, so an earlier death for these folks would be a benefit from the DimocRATS’ point of view.
How do you kill off 5.5 billion non-Progressives so the NWO elite can live like kings or Wall Street executives .... just kill off a few million here and there and before you know it you are talking serious numbers like billions!
Yeah...always thought that was near stroke level
150/90 is insanely high for normal living.
Normal is less than 120/80
i believe bp meds have been given out to people like candy.
they have continually lowered numbers and created new description categories “pre-high blood pressure” and such, and they take a one-size fits all approach to these magic numbers people MUST be below,
and they forget half the time that just being in the doctor’s office raises people’s bp numbers by about 10-15% in the first place.
There is also a battle of the Medics going on regarding vegetable oil vs. lard.
Some are insisting that lard is no longer the ‘boogieman’ evil. Some even claim veggy oils are worse than animal fats.
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We need the FED to fund grants for some studies.
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Death-Panel bookmark
They are the first ones who will be denied medical treatments when they need them the most.
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