Posted on 11/20/2009 2:00:57 AM PST by Scanian
The Democrats' health-care express is on the move again -- too quickly for Americans to absorb the long-term implications of its potentially devastating impact on the US economy.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his latest bill Wednesday, complete with a Congressional Budget Office analysis suggesting it would cost $849 billion over 10 years -- well below the president's $900 billion ceiling.
In fact, the actual cost of the Reid bill is three times that figure.
Yet Reid aims to push through a critical procedural vote on the bill this weekend, which will demonstrate whether he has the 60-vote "supermajority" needed to derail a GOP filibuster.
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The rationing of health care, already begun with mammograms, when applied to the elderly, using a Marxist social utility theory measuring the rest of their probable lives vs the cost of the care, will result in Utilization Review Panels making decisions that result in death for 100s of 1000s, effectively Death Panels.
I am not afraid of the death panels. What frightens me is the every day trips Americans take to the Doctors and how Middle America will be screwed.
Deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 dollars wil keep Middle income America from seeing a physician, while the “poor” will go for nothing. Paid for by those who can no longer afford to go.
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