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The Democrats torched President Bush over and over regarding wire tapping and their privacy concerns when he was using it to protect us from the terrorists. But I haven’t heard a peep from any Democrat about their privacy rights regarding the Health Care System restructuring that will be paid for by Obama’s Stimulus Package.
According to sources that have read the Stimulus Package all of our health records will be put into a computer database and then turned over to a new Government agency that will dictate the type of health care a Doctor will be allowed to administer to his patients. For example a 68 year old retired man may have a blood cancer that is not curable but manageable for 5-15 years with Chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant. The Government will determine by his age, health history and projected cost the type of care the Doctor can administer. In this case I’m thinking they’d determine the patient is too much of a drain on the system therefore not qualify him for treatment and the decision would cause certian death in a short period of time.
It will be interesting where the government draws the line on life and death. If you’re 65, 70, 75 or 80 and need open heart surgery. Maybe how much you pay in taxes will be part of the equation? Whatever it is it won’t be pleasant. The elderly are already facing daily crisis’s.
A common example is say you’re 75 and are lucky to be in great overall health. You live in an apartment and take care of your wife of 50 years who has Macular Degeneration and is going slowly blind. You notice your energy is down and your Doctor tells you need a heart valve replacement which is a serious but fairly routine operation. But because of the expensive at $75,000-$100,000 and determined risk for all 75 year old men you’re denied the surgery by the Government. You live in an apartment and you and your wife live off of Social Security with a modest savings. What would happen? Your Doctor is going to allow patients to die right and left of him within 6 months?
This is going to be a real dilemia for the medical profession. We have all of this wonderful technology and these surgical techniques. But unless you’re rich you die really before your time because of what are now routine medical advancements that cost $100,000. I guess we always new this day would come with the cost of medical treatment. I just thought it would be at a higher level of treatment. And I don’t claim to know what the Government decisions will be. But it seems if they really want to save money like Obama says this is maybe some of the pain he keeps talking about. I hope not!! How ironic is it that the Democrats are for killing off the poor old people. At least the Republicans don’t want you to die. Lol!!
By the way the 68 year old man I described is my Father and I’m thankful to say he’s now 73, and we’ve enjoyed having him around very much the last five years. And I think about the 14,000 people a year that come down with this same blood cancer every year and what will happen to them in the future. It’s called Multiple Myeloma and strikes more men than women and more blacks than whites and people mostly in their mid to late 60’s although they’re discovering it earlier and earlier.
Where’s the outrage by anyone on the other side? Has every one of them drunk the Obama Kool-Aid? Do people really want the Government to have access to their medical records? That seems much worse than the possibility someone overhearing a phone call. Where’s the ALCU when you need them? Lol!! Where was the AARP? Where were the poor on the Whitehouse lawn?
Socialized medicine has arrived for many and most of us don’t even know it. A new government agency has been created and most people don’t know it. That’s change all right!! Our Government no longer consults the people. It makes Bush look like a Boy Scout. :) The only good thing is the Government moves slow and it will time to do what Obama wants.
Everyone should get the word out about this topic. It will affect us all. Please.