Posted on 07/01/2009 2:08:49 PM PDT by MNDude
I've received a Forwarded email today, and I'm not sure if it's true or not. Snopes has nothing on it. Can anyone verify if this is true or not?
Daschle's Statement on Senior Health Care
"Senior" status is something we all face (IF we're lucky), so read this. Especially note Daschle's statement about the elderly!
Bloomberg: "Daschle says health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
I thought one of Obama’s daughters said that.
It’s on Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg)
Commentary by Betsy McCaughey
Elderly Hardest Hit
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
I don’t think that’s precisely the wording, but that business about the elderly being more accepting of their infirmities is right out of Daschle’s book on health care.
Snopes is biased Left. If they could debunk the statement (or muddle the defense) they will get around to it.
It is all over blogs, very similar to something we know that O’Bambi said last week. However, nothing I can find in Snopes yet on this one.
Generally, my rule of thumb is if it is in an email, it is false. This one, however, even if not true, fits the pattern of statements we know that side has made.
And the Pravda brigade (Pravda Means Truth TM) has chimed in:
Daschle didn’t say seniors should accept rather that treat conditions that come with age
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/apr/03/chain-email/daschle-didnt-say-seniors-seniors-should-accept-ra/
We contacted McCaughey to see which parts of this were her words and which were Daschle’s.
The phrase that health care reform “will not be pain-free” is a direct quote from Daschle, she explained. She said the sentence beginning “Seniors should be more accepting” was her paraphrasing of an argument in Daschle’s book in which he quotes David Mechanic, a health care policy expert at Rutgers University, saying, “more and more of what were once seen as social, behavioral, or normative aspects of every day life, or as a normal process of aging, are now framed in a medical context. ... Whether wrinkles, breasts, or buttocks, impotence or social anxieties, or inattention in school, they all have become grist for the medical mill.”
We think it’s a stretch to summarize Daschle’s position as saying that seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. Not treating wrinkles is one thing. Not treating, say, heart disease, is another. But that’s fair enough for McCaughey to opine. This is labeled an opinion piece. The point is that these are McCaughey’s words, not Daschle’s.
The last sentence, “That means the elderly will bear the brunt,” was her conclusion, McCaughey said.
Obama has been saying more or less the same thing Daschle is credited with here, although the media haven’t run with it too much.
How old is Daschle? Arthritis might be visiting him soon.
He is already showing signs of dementia- but that has been going on for a very long time...
or inattention in school”
Hardly a situation for the elderly.
Obama Wants to Let Those Pesky Geezers Die
Obama Discusses Deathbed Measures
See also:
Money News - Obama: Raise Death Tax to Pay for Healthcare
NY Times: Change in Estate Tax Suggested to Pay for Health Care
Obama: Euthanasia of the elderly may be necessary
Obama Administration Considers Pro-Euthanasia British-Style Health Care
Cal Thomas: Why Obamacare may beget euthanasia
The plan is to kill 'em a little faster and steal their life savings to keep up with the healthcare demand for those Obama deems worthy.
Yikes! It is true! Usually if I see something that insane, I just assume it is another made up Internet rumor.
There is an inconvenient fact here the very few politicians - Democratic or Republican - want to face, because is political suicide to do so.
Americans overwhelmingly believe that healthcare to of the elderly should not be “rationed”, and Americans overwhelmingly believe that they should not be more heavily taxed to provide it.
Many liberals avoid this dilemma by arguing that the steadily increasing cost of such care can be covered by government mandated increases in efficiency.
Many conservatives avoid this dilemma by arguing that the steadily increasing cost of such care can be covered by market imposed increases in efficiency.
The unpleasant truth is that as long as medical technology continues to extend life - especially the last decade or so of life - these costs will continue to increase relative to the rest of economy.
And and either rationing, or taxes, or both, must increase along with them.
Tommy is getting “up there” in age himself, isn’t he?
Half the Senate should be on painkillers as their first (soon perhaps, final) course of treatment.
I believe that came from his best selling book.
IE: “Getting aches, sores, and sicknesses, even dying, are all part of getting older; now shut up and dig that grave.”
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