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People bad mouth the Death Panels without giving them credit for how valuable they’ll be to SocSec and Medicare budgets.
When Julia and Pajama Boy get restless over granny’s premature demise, the regime will send out some Groupons for student loan relief.
Does NHS also ban Queen Elizabeth II from cataract surgery?
All “government-provided” health care schemes eventually become rationed care. And not only rationed, that which is available is much lower quality, and with long waiting lists to even get into the presence of a supposed specialist in the treatment of the disorder, also allows the condition to get much worse before treatment begins.
And the supposed specialist may not even have that much expertise in diagnosing or treating the disorder. What treatment is available, fails to address either the symptoms that present, or newer, more effective means of treatment.
The older treatments will necessarily have to be relied upon, because there is no capability or interest in developing new, cutting-edge technologies. Without available funding to support research and experimental study, the new technologies will never be discovered or explored for the benefit of community health.
We are all going to die sometime. In the words of that great sage of the House of Representatives, Alan Grayson, D-Florida, “Don’t get sick. And if you do, die quickly.”
Pretty much sums up what the underlying philosophy of Obamacare includes.
My MIL will be 100 next May. She arises each morning and makes her own bed, then picks which of her own homespun yarn she will knit the next sweater or cap with. I do fix her breakfast and lunch, but she always walks down the two flights of stairs to take in some Netflix movies. She reads books by the bushel basket and follows the stock market on TV.
She became ill with an UTI last summer and I had to throw a screaming fit to get the ER docs to treat her. They thought her “fuzziness” was the usual. I insisted they treat her now, or else when the other hospital put her back on her feet I’d bring her back and let her beat them all at chess.
Some folks just have good genes. The one-size-fits-all practice of medicine makes me very angry, but it is already in the U.S.
Patriarch Pavle of Serbia: Patriarch from age 76 to age 95.
Winston Churchill: Prime Minister from age 66 to age 71, and again from age 77 to age 81.
Ronald Reagan: President from age 70 to age 78.
Any questions?
Let me explain a bit more on private and national medical insurance there: They have private hospitals and public hospitals. If you have a private policy, you go to the private hospital and have a private room and care. If you are public health insurance, you go to the different hospital with wards of people, no private rooms.
Now, wife had a bleeding ulcer and had to be in hospital a number of days. She was in a ward, her chosen public healthcare. She said she couldn't sleep because the others in the ward were noisy. She couldn't get a nurse until after a long wait. As soon as she got out of hospital, she told son to get private healthcare again.
She was only a liberal in talking but not in doing. Did they send my grandson to a public school with regular kids? No way - it is a private school for smart kids, not even a regular private school. Also, private tennis lessons, private piano lessons, private flute lessons, private swimming lessons.
I'm all for private, but don't pretend to be a liberal and live like the common folks when you don't do it.
An important element of this is not that the cancer treatments wouldn’t work, but that the NHS actively *wants* the elderly to die. That is, if someone invented a cheap cancer cure tomorrow, the NHS would try to *prevent* seniors from getting it.
Remember that former Gov. Richard D. Lamm of Colorado once said that “Elderly people who are terminally ill have a “duty to die and get out of the way” instead of trying to prolong their lives by artificial means.”
However, this is a half truth. They don’t really care that they are terminally ill. They want them to die anyway, because they see the elderly as useless parasites on society.
Past retirement age, they see the elderly as consuming their (earned) pension, getting free or low cost health care, hoarding their (earned) savings instead of giving them to government, etc. As useless parasites.
So remember that this is the mindset of such people when debating health care.
One more note about English private insurance:
Son’s mother-in-law had a private policy so when she got cancer, she was immediately admitted and got fast care and a private room. She eventually died but, in my opinion, she would not have lived that long had she not had private insurance.
See US chart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_expectancy
Cancer treatment, regardless of age, should be decided by the patient and his/her family. As a consideration, some chemotherapy and radiation treatments are more stressful and debilitating than the illness. For elderly patients, Medicare does not cover all the drugs and services which are part of cancer care, plus,the stress of a cancer diagnosis, prognosis often limits research on choices and options.
If I were a 75 yr old cancer patient that the NHS had “written off”, I’d be in the process of “writing off” a few NHS Staff.
Democrats, with Obamacare, just want bring back the good old days of 50-100 years ago, when people had an average life-span of about 50-60 years.
AARP will have to start looking at what Obamacare will really do to their membership. And the democrats will have to start worrying about losing a large voting block.
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