Hey Seniors! Just Die Already!

WhenWeAreQueen ^ | July 26, 2009 | Queen1

[pharmamom]

Link to the CEI press release: http://cei.org/news-release/2009/07/23/obama-adviser-urges-controversial-%E2%80%9Csenior-death-discount%E2%80%9D-health-care-reform

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Obama Care - Deathcare.

Backhoe do you have any of your great graphics you could add to this thread?

[combat_boots]

Ezekiel playing roulette huh. With others’ lives in play. Or is it Wheel of Fortunes?

[bareford101]

Ezekiel Emmanuel, may you have the privilege of dying first! Then, we will think you know that you are willing to stand behind your word.... you weasel

[unitedwestand]

See page 425 of the new healthcare bill - counseling sessions for seniors on how to die - this is not a joke

[Pharmboy]

Hmmm...I thought that was his dad.

[utahagen]

I oppose what Obama wants to do to healthcare, but I think many Americans have to wake up to the reality that individuals have to pay — and should pay — for more of their own healthcare. If any entity — an insurance company, government, whatever — is paying for peoples’ medical care, that entity MUST ration, and rationing based on age is one way to do that. Many people over 65 are cheap, cheap, cheap — and I'm talking about rich geezers, too, so the “they-live-on-fixed-incomes-argument” won't wash. Part of the reason we've hurtled so quickly towards socialized medicine is that many older Americans balk at any adjustment to government spending, such as raising the age when you can collect Social Security benefits.

[BusterBear]

Somehow, I don’t think this is going to go over very well with the AARP.

The AARP knows all about it. They agreed with the Obama Administration to the cuts in Medicare providing Medicare was opened up to people between ages 50 and 64 - that way, AARP can sell a new group of people Medicare Supplement Insurance (as approved by the Obama Administration).

The AARP is primarily about selling insurance - protecting the rights of seniors is just a sales ploy.

[the invisib1e hand]

Men who think like Ezekiel Emanuel need to be contained for the good of society.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Yes, I know, I have been trying to explain the deathcare bill to several today who supported it. EVEN with the end of life counseling mandatory, I could not win. These are Obama koolaid drinkers of the worst sort.

“We have to do something about healthcare”

One even said - for a doctor to make $350K is outrageous and must be stopped!

But, I said, putting a government bureaucrat in charge of what care you receive and don’t receive and your end of life situation which should by no means include government bureaucratic decisions.....is more like Nazi Germany than the USA!

[the invisib1e hand]

See page 425 of the new healthcare bill - counseling sessions for seniors on how to die - this is not a joke

How about posting it, if possible?

[jennyjenny]

The longer their parents live, the less inheritance they’ll get.

[whitedog57]

I agree. The problem really lies with 71 1/2 and over. They want heart transplants and want us to pay for it.

As I have said before, we just allocate a percentage of GDP to Medicare and be done with it. But Obama wants to cut healthcare to people over 65 and give it to illegal immigrants.

F*ck Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

The solution is LESS government involvement in healthcare, not more. It includes tort reform bigtme. It includes giving more tax incentives to healthcare reimbursement accounts and users of those accounts....just for starters.

[combat_boots]

Start calling Ft Myers and snow bird papers to ask if the communities like the snowbirds’ business (and relatives’) or not.

Farm agencies & small weeklies. 4-H.

[pharmamom]

Think it is brother...

Pharmboy, eh. Am I your mother?

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

AMen!

[utahagen]

I agree 100% about the solution’s being less government involvement. My point was that many seniors have abetted this march towards socialism by refusing to consider HOW the government will pay for endless entitlements. Many old Americans who are now afraid they won’t get pacesetters at age 100 were the same people who got hysterical when raising the age for SS benefits was ever raised.

[CPT Clay]

bump

[utahagen]

Wacky cheapness afflicts the under 65 set, too. I know women who will not get mammograms unless insurance covers them. I've told some friends if their insurance companies won't cover mammograms until, say, age 40, they should just pay for the mammograms themselves. (Yes, there are places that don't accept insurance that will give and analyze mammograms for paying patients.) But most peoples’ reaction is, “I'm not going to pay for a mammogram!” That's just great, isn't it? People who pay a couple of hundreds of dollars a month on cable and internet balk at paying for a test that could save their lives.