Posted on 02/24/2009 11:17:45 PM PST by Pacothecat
Reno (and Holder) definitely scared many of us doctors about any sort of private contracting or attempts to provide medical care outside of Medicare for those eligible. She even subtly threatened to prosecute and fine patients who tried to go outside the Medicare system, back in ‘96 to ‘98.
http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/bg1209.cfm
>>We’re going to have to put lifetime caps on Medicare spending...there is no other way around the problem.
i hope that we also put caps on neonatal care. We are keeping alive many preemies that become lifetime financial burdens<<
And who decides, that guy who used to work at FEMA last week? The day that government decides who lives or who dies is the day we lose our freedom. They already killed the unborn; now they want to kill the living.
I’m sure CS was being sarcastic, but there has to be some hard limit, like it or not. Otherwise, why not spend five trillion dollars keeping one person alive?
And for those who are basically sitting on the sidelines booing their own team, what are your solutions to this?
That’s easy for you to say, if you’re young and healthy.
I have medicare and a PPO. In order for me to have the PPO, I HAVE to have medicare. There was no choice. They get you coming and going.
Lots of compassion here, huh?
I paid into mine for over 28 years. I feel NO guilt from taking medicare to pay for dialysis treatments or heart procedures. I’m still alive and doing pretty well. I have lots to offer mankind still. So please don’t kill me off until it’s really time.
That’s right. When I turned 65, my PPO plan from work made me go on Medicare. Then they pick up a few bucks from there, damn few. I pay co-pays and a lot of money for prescriptions which they raise every year.
I'm healthy, but not so young. I realize that someday my body will start to break down, as everyone does, so I try to do what I can to keep it healthy.
Again I ask: What is your proposed solution to the problem that everyone will want the government to spend unlimited dollars on keeping them alive?
I have no solutions to anything. I’m just trying to stay alive myself. There were a lot of things we didn’t know back in the 40s and 50s, especially when it came to food and smoking. Now, I never smoked but I still have heart trouble and diabetes, which runs in my family. I don’t know how much that has to do with my present condition. If I’m dying, I don’t want anyone to keep me alive on some damn machine. I’ve told my proxy that. That’s about all we can do.
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