Posted on 08/09/2009 3:22:15 PM PDT by Richard Poe
Imagine lying in some government-run hospital, hospice or nursing home many years from now. Imagine languishing unattended for days in soiled sheets, suffering from hunger and thirst, covered with bed sores, your flesh aboil with untreated infections. Imagine living in fear of resentful, underpaid health aides who take out their anger on you and abuse you. And imagine spending your final moments on earth in the company of a government health care worker with a syringe, who injects you with a lethal cocktail. President Obamas health proposals have the potential to turn this nightmare into a reality for millions of Americans. Especially vulnerable are the 80 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. That generation has been targeted for a program of age-based medical rationing such as our country has never before experienced. [...] Cutting costs by letting people die President Obama has promised huge cuts in medical spending -- up to $700 billion, or 30 percent, annually. If we fail to make such cuts, he says, we will face financial Armageddon. [T]he cost of our health care is a threat to our economy, Obama told the American Medical Association in Chicago on June 15. It is a ticking time bomb for the federal budget. A 30-percent annual cut is going to take a big bite out of somebodys health care. The only question is whose. |
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