Posted on 06/26/2009 9:31:25 AM PDT by SloopJohnB
I am wondering when the euthanasia folks are going to start touting this one? I mean, it sure seemed to me as if the most caring, most civil, most intelligent president evah just said that healthcare could be cheaper if we don't give old folks and the infirm the full measure of care they now get. It appeared that Obama said we should just let them die or suffer because they aren't worth the effort. Imagine if Bush had said something like this? The left wouldn't have hesitated to call him any manner of names. Oddly, though, the Old Media have not had so much as a raised eyebrow over his statements on Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Let’s be fair, now
He said “we” should give people painkillers instead of surgery and unnecessary tests. He didn’t say it only had to be old people...just everyone for whom “logic” said their chances weren’t worth the cost of aggressive treatment.
Like Teddy K. (not)
Hey hey
Ho ho
All them geezers
Have got to go!
* The scientific dishonesty of Global Warming The compassion of an IRS agent
* The lines of the US Postal Service or DMV
* The fiscal responsibility of the Pentagon who brought us $500 hammers and $1,000 toilet seats
* The lobbying of the wives of like Senators Daschle and Dodd
* Expansion of staff for Senators and Congressman to handle health care disputes
...and this....
The New Stasi (formerly known as ACORN) guards a geriatric clinic. Elderly shooed away told to 'Do us all a favor and go home and die, you are nearly shovel-ready'.
Paging AARP.
Look out baby boomers!....Obama doesn’t give a damn what happens to you! He has just solved the problem of taking care of all of you!....you just get to die!
Awaiting statement from AARP (but not holding breath while waiting).
Just another example that we have no longer a free press in this country.
Is there no one to stand up for grandparents?
Once this begins the age will get lower and lower.
Except for the CHOSEN ones, of course.
Remember the movie Logan's Run? The age for them was 35. At 35 their life expired, and that was that; except for the farce of a ceremony ...of rising up out of sight.
Up to 15,000 older cancer patients die prematurely of the disease in the UK each year, researchers said today.
The National Cancer Intelligence Network said these deaths could be prevented if the UK was as good at treating cancer in the over-75s as the best in Europe and America.
Don’t forget you must leave “spirit” out when treatment vs. non-treatment.
AARP supported the one in the election. He’s going to put them out of business. And they deserve it.
Asked a completely hypothetical question about his daughter being sick, Obama says “every study” and “every bit of evidence proves” that some of the care YOU are getting is not helping you!
How can that possibly be true? It’s the fantasy of a dangerous kook.
My wife is a breast cancer survivor. Surgery, chemo, drugs, tests, radiation, experts - She did not receive ONE SINGLE treatment she didn’t need.
These phantom treatments you don’t need and don’t help you are the biggest scam ever.
People need to ask him, which of my treatments would I not have received under your plan?
And everyone of those old people who die off from lack of care is also a potential savings to Social Security! It’s a double-savings bonanza for the gubmint, by golly.
Well, actually, he did use the term “anybody’s mom” which indicates the elderly. But in other commentary on this so-called plan, it seems clear that the elderly, the infirm, and even severely injured military will be lower on the ration list than, say, an able-bodied illegal alien.
That’s exactly how the Nazi in the White House sees it.....
If we fail to address the problem we have with dishonest and biased news reporting, then truth and liberty has absolutely no chance whatsoever of surviving.
I won’t be surprised when Obama opens vast areas in the west for every family to take their elderly parents out to. The car will pull up to a gate and let the elderly out. The gate will open and the old people will simply wander off to die.
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