Gallows humor aside, the problem is that this is inevitable and is already starting to happen in Old Europe.
Already, we get weekly stories about Britons in their late fifties and up who are told that they don’t qualify for treatment for their ailments.
The recent revelations about Daschle’s little clause in the stimulus plan is illuminating.
Socialized medicine is the hammer. Impending national bankruptcy is the anvil.
Today I had lunch with my MIL. In the course of conversation, I explained to her what was actually in the bill, in noninflammatory terms. I didn't embellish, I just told her what was actually in the bill. (dr. compliance, recommended treatments, “meaningful user”, etc.)
Her response? “Well, I can see the need for a patient record data base, but they won't dictate patient care. They wouldn't do *that*.”
I explained to her that that part was actually in writing in the bill. I said, “They wrote that they are going to do it, the passed the bill, what makes you think that they won't do what they say?”
She said, “Oh, they just wouldn't do it.”
My ever-so-helpful husband added, “It's impossible. It's just to big of a job. The federal government couldn't organize that much information.”
I asked how the IRS does it. He said, “Well, they had a head start.”
My son had a similar conversation with an Obama supporter friend. The guy said that my son was LYING and that Obama wouldn't do half the things he was being accused of. (Like giving 4.1 billion to ACORN.)
So that's going to be the way of it. Denial and refusing to accept delivery of the facts. THIS is what we're really up against.