Ted Kennedy's Health Care To Be Rationed? (Vanity)

Torch The Mummy | 2/9/09 | Torch The Mummy

[torchthemummy]

As discussed by Rush and others, embedded in the "stimulus" bill is a creation of the "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research" which would essentially be empowered to ration treatments based on factors such as life expectancy and cost effectiveness which would result in medical dollars for older patients being denied and transferred for the use of younger, "still productive" patients.

It would seem that an appropriate question would be whether Ted Kennedy's incurable brain malady would have been determined "a waste of resources" and thus rationed/denied services?

[torchthemummy]

Maybe a rhetorical question since there will surely be a two-tiered system.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Not a chance. Ted Kennedy considers it his life mission to foist universal socialized healthcare on the common folk, but rest assured, if he needs a gastic bypass or a liver transplant, Ted won’t wait for a second for care. He’ll receive gold-plated treatment and the finest doctors. Waiting is for the peasants like us (and no, under Teddy’s plan you don’t have the right to pay for private coverage).

[mnehring]

It would seem that an appropriate question would be whether Ted Kennedy's incurable brain malady would have been determined "a waste of resources" and thus rationed/denied services?

Ahh, but look at the Soviet system for example. All the politburo members where able to partake of the goods and services the plebeians where not allowed. At that, the goods and services of the plebeians where reduced specifically to provide more to the PTBs. Of course the message was always that it was to provide fair and equitable services for all the plebeians..

[DoughtyOne]

LMAO, yes he’s a fat tub of lard and needs to step aside.

He should volunteer to die. After all, that’s what his ilk are planning to implement for the rest of us.

You first Senator Swimmer. Didn’t you already implement this policy back in the 60s BTW? And she was in her late twenties. Wow.

[G.Mason]

Is Teddy Kennedy still alive?

[gracesdad]

You got the bucks, you’ll get the treatment. Kennedy has the bucks.

[Gaffer]

Once the Democrats have (as they do now) absolute control and power, they will seek ways of improving the efficiency of their vote buying. They will come to the realization that pandering to fears of old people with promises of free healthcare, etc. is not efficient in terms of ‘bang for the buck’. They will decide that the long term value of old people is limited because they get sick and will cost a lot of money per vote. They will opt, instead, on pandering to those, the young, to whom they can enlist long term. Once they have the total majority hooked, then comes the tyranny and open mind and behavior control - total subjugation.

[angcat]

Unfortunately

[DonaldC]

Those with the gold make the rules. In the free market system, the insurance companies decided who got what and the people cried. Now it will be the gov and the people will cry, maybe a little louder, but they will get used to it and that will be that.

[blondee123]

Only for us peons, the government will do as they please!

[Diogenesis]

Two-tiered Justice.
Two-tiered Healthcare.
Two-tiered Requirement to Pay TAXES

AMERICA 2009;

Two-tiered Taxes, Healthcare and Justice is Equality
Eliminating and Incapacitating the US Military is Strength
Detention camps for Republicans and Conservatives and Non-Muslims are Nature Preserves
Tax Cheating is Fair (except for Proles who will be audited, fined, jailed, and beheaded)
Freed and Armed Terrorists Make for Increased American Safety
Censorship is Transparency
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

[hgro]

Ted Kennedy will find a way to swim ashore while a deserving young person will by left to suffocate in the swirling water of Kennedy bumptiousness.

[Falcon4.0]

They're already thinking way ahead of that. Once they Federally fund Acorn. They'll then push to make them “Federal Agents” al-la TSA Screeners, but Acorn will be charged with “Election Monitoring”.

[G.Mason]

I'm afraid you are correct.

As they send the more older of us to death, the younger of us should remember that they will also be ground up under the foot of statism, as will the infirmed, and sickly of any age ... down the road a bit.

[super7man]

I am looking for investors to open a resort hospital complex a few miles across the Mexican border. It will have it’s own airstrip and an 18-hole golf course for those visiting patients. It will be staffed with the best American trained doctors. Or you may bring your own doctor.

We will break ground as soon as we can scam some to the Obama bail-out money. It’s gunna pay for illegals here, why not just keep them home?

Anything can be done for a price.

[mom-7]

The congress critters will continue to receive the same health care that they now have courtesy of the tax payers. After all they won. The sad thing about this is that the public does not know or care what socialized medicine is. They think that they are going to get something for nothing.

[King Moonracer]

Those with the gold make the rules. In the free market system, the insurance companies decided who got what and the people cried. Now it will be the gov and the people will cry, maybe a little louder, but they will get used to it and that will be that.

Sad but true.

But hey, we'll get more pie, and we won't have to worry about gas for the car or the mortgage payment.... Unless we've been greedy and not given enough pie to those "who stand behind us". More pie, more pie!!!! /bitter sarcasm

[Gaffer]

They’ve already got the vote thing ‘knocked’. They are going to have to start thinking ‘bang for the buck’ like I said (it leaves more for them, individually). It will suck to be old in the near future - imagine being told the treatment for your non-debilitating ailment is too expensive, just live with it and eventually die.....

[ncpatriot]

The gov’t will build a “box”. Those who fit in the box will get care. And those who fit in this box will be those who do what gov’t likes: no drugs, no fat foods, right age, plenty exercise, no disability including old age, those who are not overweight, those who follow doctor orders, those who respond to treatment, those who don’t cause problems, etc.

Don’t know what happens to those who have money who are outside box like Rumsfeld who is older and Kennedy who is older and overweight and h/o alc abuse. What happens to these rich folks? Guess they will pay out of pocket which most of us just can’t afford> thousands of dollars for surgery or other treatment.

I just do not like this!!!

[Personal Responsibility]

I have said for a long time - when people are forced to live with the ramifications of their decisions then they tend to make better decisions. Poor decisions come from not having any skin in the game.

As long as government does not have to live with the system they designed it will not get better because as much as they can claim to care about you...they don’t care about you as much as YOU care about you.