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Did Obama Say We Should Kill the Old Folks to Save Money Last Night?
Publius' Forum ^ | 6/25/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 06/25/2009 6:13:35 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus

I am wondering when the euthanasia folks are going to start touting this one? I mean, it sure seemed to me as if the most caring, most civil, most intelligent president evah just said that healthcare could be cheaper if we don't give old folks and the infirm the full measure of care they now get. It appeared that Obama said we should just let them die or suffer because they aren't worth the effort. Imagine if Bush had said something like this? The left wouldn't have hesitated to call him any manner of names.

Obama said during the ABC Special on Wednesday night that a way to save healthcare costs is to abandon the sort of care that "evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve" the patient's health. He went on to say that he had personal familiarity with such a situation when his grandmother broke her hip after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Obama offered a question on the efficacy of further care for his grandmother saying, "and the question was, does she get hip replacement surgery, even though she was fragile enough they were not sure how long she would last?"

But who is it that will present the "evidence" that will "show" that further care is futile? Are we to believe that Obama expects individual doctors will make that decision in his bold new government controlled healthcare future? If he is trying to make that claim it is a flat out untruth and he knows it...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; abcnews; barackobama; bho44; bhohealthcare; bhoinfomercial; elderly; euthanasia; healthcare
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It sure seems like he just said let's gak all the old folks, didn't it??
1 posted on 06/25/2009 6:13:36 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

just about.............


2 posted on 06/25/2009 6:15:25 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Yes. That is what he said. Obama does have much use for old people or babies.


3 posted on 06/25/2009 6:15:54 AM PDT by KansasGirl (I still think Obama is just plain creepy.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Social Security reform, Democrat style.


4 posted on 06/25/2009 6:16:05 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Republic of Texas

We old folks might have a different plan..to get rid of Zero long before he gets rid of us.


5 posted on 06/25/2009 6:16:51 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Mobile Vulgus

When he says this, he is speaking for large majorities his age and younger. You see, that group doesn’t think it will ever age but be eternally youthful. People in the USA are truly “nuts” to be kind.


6 posted on 06/25/2009 6:17:19 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Eugenics, abort them on the front, kill them off as they age ... Live in a "Soylent Green" paradise.

Yes this is what they are talking about. I guess he thinks Americans are Kenyan heathens.

7 posted on 06/25/2009 6:18:47 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus
The New Stasi (formerly known as ACORN) guards geriatric clinic. Elderly shooed away told to 'Do us all a favor and go home and die'.


8 posted on 06/25/2009 6:19:41 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Theodore R.

Ironic isn’t it, that the baby Boomers who said “don’t trust anyone over 30” will bear the brunt of the new youth’s carrying out their own plan?


9 posted on 06/25/2009 6:20:19 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Oldexpat

It will be interesting to watch the voting demographics on this in the future. Typically seniors are a strong voting bloc. And often fooled by the Democrat adverts to make Social Security “safe for seniors” and Medicare “rock solid”.

If Republicans have any brains at all, they should grab this Obama fumble and start running for the goal line.


10 posted on 06/25/2009 6:20:37 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Are we to believe that Obama expects individual doctors will make that decision in his bold new government controlled healthcare future?

obama may say that, and the doctors might make that decision, but they will find out the medical czar will not approve the procedure, so it is not done. Happens all the time now, between doctors and insurance companies.

11 posted on 06/25/2009 6:21:29 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Soylent Greenies!


12 posted on 06/25/2009 6:21:40 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Oldexpat; Mobile Vulgus

Y’ know?...If any civilian had said something like that about His Lowliness the Dope, the black helicopters and MIB would be swarming said civilian’s house.

I hope he keeps it up. His hoof and mouth disease will catch up with him soon, I suspect.

Then I’ll treat all the FReepers to popcorn while we all sit back and watch the movie.


13 posted on 06/25/2009 6:21:42 AM PDT by Monkey Face (RUN, SARAH, RUN! ~~ (Borrowed from redhead))
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Again with his f_cking grandmother.

STFU

FUBO

14 posted on 06/25/2009 6:22:30 AM PDT by Yankee
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No of course not. He just wants to relieve the pain of families by taking those painful decisions out of family hands.

Its so much easier when a bureaucrat decides what number lives and what number dies. Kinda like the old star trek episode where computers ran the war and people reported to extermination facilities.


15 posted on 06/25/2009 6:24:03 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: SERKIT

These two are just begging for a .50 caliber attitude adjustment.

16 posted on 06/25/2009 6:25:25 AM PDT by Yankee
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To: Mobile Vulgus

They want the Baby Boomers to die off quickly.

We will bankrupt the system even without government healthcare.

And abortion worked so well, we killed off over fifty million potential taxpayaers plus at least 10 million kids who would have been born to those aborted between 1973 and 1992.

They have already looted almost half our wealth between money lost in stocks, IRAs, pension plans and 401 Ks.

They must as well shoot for the rest.


17 posted on 06/25/2009 6:25:36 AM PDT by exit82 (Be vigilant--what is happening on Iran's streets may yet happen here in America.)
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To: Oldexpat

A silver haired march on D.C. might be just the ticket. Senior citizens are much more feisty when they are riled than the me, me, me younger generations. Wed. night’s ramblings by Obama might just be his Waterloo.


18 posted on 06/25/2009 6:25:56 AM PDT by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Oldexpat
We old folks might have a different plan..to get rid of Zero long before he gets rid of us.

It's past time for him to go.....

19 posted on 06/25/2009 6:29:01 AM PDT by nobdysfool (Taglines are so last year.....)
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To: Yankee

It’s always all about me....


20 posted on 06/25/2009 6:33:33 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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