Posted on 07/09/2009 10:28:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Obama’s health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access. Indeed, the principal impact of the Obama health care program will be to reduce sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their every need to improve their quality of life answered.
It is so ironic that the elderly - who were so vigilant when Bush proposed to change Social Security - are so relaxed about the Obama health care proposals. Bush’s Social Security plan, which did not cut their benefits at all, aroused the strongest opposition among the elderly. But Obama’s plan, which will totally gut Medicare and replace it with government-managed care and rationing, has elicited little more than a yawn from most senior citizens.
It’s time for the elderly to wake up before it is too late!
In our new book, Catastrophe, we explain - in detail and in depth - the consequences the elderly of Canada are feeling from just this kind of program. Limited colonoscopies have led to a 25% higher rate of colon cancer and a ban on the use of the two best chemotherapies are part of the reason why 42% of Canadians with colon cancer die while 31% of Americans, who have access to these two medications, survive the disease.
Overall, the death rate from cancer in Canada is 16% higher than in the United States and the heart disease mortality rate is 6% above ours’.
Under Obama’s program, there will be a government health insurance company that gets huge subsidies of tax money. It will compete with private insurance plans. But the subsidies will let it undercut the private plans and drive them out of business, leaving only the government plan - a single payer - in effect.
Today, 800,000 doctors struggle to treat adequately the 250 million Americans who have insurance. Obama will add 50 million more to their caseload with no expansion in the number of doctors or nurses. Indeed, his plan will likely reduce their number by lowering reimbursement rates and imposing bureaucrats above them who will force medical decisions down their throats. Fewer doctors will have to treat more patients. The inevitable result will be rationing.
And it is the elderly who rationing will most effect. Who should get a knee replacement a 40 year old or a 70 year old? Who should get a new hip, a young person or an old person? Who should have priority in the operating room a seventy year old diabetic who needs bypass surgery or a younger person? Obviously, it is the elderly who will get short shrift under his proposal.
But the interest groups that usually speak up for the elderly, particularly AARP, are in Obama’s pocket, hoping to profit from his program by becoming one of its vendors. Just as they backed Bush’s prescription drug plan because they anticipating profiting from it, so they are now helping Obama gut the medical care of their constituents.
It is high time that the elderly of America realized what the stakes are in this vital fight to preserve Medicare as we know it and keep medical care open, accessible, and free to those over 65. It is truly a battle for their very lives.
Like a good fascist, 0bama wants to dispose of the weak and elderly.
They contribute nothing to the State.
Those elderly idiots don’t listen. The ones that are rational already know it.
Brilliant. I love Dick Morris. I can almost forgive his arrogance and his having worked for the philanderer with this one. He has come up with a great angle to drive a stake through the Barakula’s health reform.
Shut up and drop dead you old people!
It’s for the children!
Even if it is the children of illegal aliens.
“Single payer healthcare” (as the freeloaders like to call it) is the best way to get rid of people before they can start drawing Social Security. Uncle Adolf would be proud.
You are supposed to live a lifestyle of self destruction with drugs, drink, AIDS, sitting in front of the TV, and if nothing else kills you then suicide from depression (soon to be doctor assisted) - should be as far as you go.
Those that live to be old Failed and likely stopped supporting the Far Left agenda at some point and need to die because soon or they will be sitting in church and voting Republican.
Of course it is different for the Elite Far Left like Obama who are seeking the Fountain of Youth through whatever ghoulish medical process they can get it and be the only ones to afford it.
Oh dear. Thank God I am not a senior yet. He does not need seniors votes anymore because he has the young, illegals, gays, large chunk of hispanic vote and minorities.
He seniors and soon to be seniors this is Obama - get screwed. I wiped out your retirement plans now go and die. Sad but the elderly are easily fooled by the Democrats.
I saw this coming.
“Those elderly idiots don’t listen. The ones that are rational already know it.”
It isn’t they don’t listen, it is that they(the AARP) will be exempt from it. So unless you are an AARP member (Dem constituency) you will be one of those with rationed healthcare.
Bingo. The seniors were always the key voting block. He knows he can lie and fool many and he has illegals, recent third world immigrants, gays, dead voters, ACORN surplus votes, etc. He just needs the old people to hurry up and die.
Ilegals will get endless freebies while old people will get rationed. This is EXACTLY what the Labour (marxist) Party did in the UK.
You obviously don't think you'll live long enough, under Obama's treacherous agenda, to become what you describe as an idiot.
I assure you that you won't turn into an idiot if you live enough years. You're already there. Rejoice.
“It isn’t they don’t listen, it is that they(the AARP) will be exempt from it.”
Umm. How, exactly, would the AARP be exempt from it? Just curious, as I’m an AARP member (or should I say my check cleared for the magazine). It’s a cheap geezer discount organization. For $12-13/yr you can join too, but ya’ gotta’ be a really old to get the discounts. In any event, the membership fee is hardly a significant surcharge to exempt yourself from a government death plan(which obviously won’t get you out of it anyway).
AARP is totally dominated by the Dems. Even the most recent articles in their house organ give absolutely no warning as to what is on the horizon for their members. It is written for the feeble minded that are either too dim to think for themselves, or were never able to do so in the first place. The AARP is an organization with very little real influence. Once you take away the geezer discounts, there is very little meat their.
This line is screwed up - I assume.
Basically is says 42% die with colon cancer under the Canadian system and 31% survive under the US system meaning 69% die under the US system... I assume they meant to say 31% die under the US system otherwise the US results would be much worse...
Oops, ........there is very little meat there.
You are going to start paying more for less. Just you watch, 1/2 of every dollar going to this thing will pay for just some paper pusher.
But, then again, the moment America’s waiting rooms are filled to the brim, the vote to repeal it. All I know is this. I had to see the doctor because of an ulcer. He told me to schedule an appointment to see a specialist-I scheduled that appointment that day-Tuesday-and saw him on Friday.
Agreed. Unfortunately much, much less.
This isn’t a lesson in frugality. This crap will likely kill me. Best to get some “health money” set aside offshore so I can have a chance at surviving a bit longer.
If Obama effectively repeals Medicare, the voters will repeal the Democrat party.
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