Sometimes refusing the hip replacement could be a purely medical decision. Some who are very ill are quite likely to not survive the hip replacement surgery. The choice between a couple more weeks in bed or dying on the operating table is medically pretty easy.
Others are not quite as sick, but will likely (also not guaranteed, everything is a probability game) survive the surgery but never be able to walk again anyway because they are too weak to do the necessary rehab. Having a nice shiny new metal hip and a surgery scar isn't going to help them much.
Where Obamacare kicks in is when the patient has a few months (likely, life expectancy predictions are like weather predictions) left to live, but can spend that getting around on a new hip or lying in bed with the broken on. This is where Dr. Zeke in Washington decides that the patient is a worthless eater and shouldn't have any treatment other than pain relief.
The more I read of your president the more he creeps me out.
I can figure out the Bleeding Heart Liberal who feels everyone's pain (well, except mine on April 15th). Obama seems to be a cold-fish psychotic only able to imitate human emotions. I just can't quite figure out what makes him tick other than a lust for power.
> Obama seems to be a cold-fish psychotic only able to imitate human emotions.
I would have ventured possibly a sociopath. He’s not quite in Idi Amin’s domain... yet. Tho’ Lord knows what he’s done to his brain with drug use.
> I just can’t quite figure out what makes him tick other than a lust for power.
What or possibly who. We’ve heard him called an “empty suit” for quite some time now. His resume is paper thin. This life experiences about nil, and any that he might have documented we’ll never know about because he has them sealed. To me, he’d be a prime candidate for the former KGB (if they were still around) to run by remote control. They were one of the few enemy services capable of such a cunning ruse...
Is someone running Obama? I dunno. Who might it be?