Obama Names Rationing Czar to Run Medicare

Townhall.com ^ | May 26, 2010 | Terry Jeffrey

[bgill]

He will do the cost-benefit analysis on your life or on the life of a loved one.

And we all know life will end up on the negative side.

[Navy Patriot]

So Zer0 has appointed the president of the death panel(s)!

[MrB]

Depends on whether you’re in the ruling class or the peasant class, how well you obey the ruling class, and how well you speak of the ruling class.

[Diogenesis]

[MollyKuehl]

Oh, wait, what was that Dems called us upon our worries of rationing? That we were propagating uninformed fearmongering tactics? We were accused of using the word "rationing" in a very ubiquitous way. Yeah? Really? Let me mention one thing from ObamaCare: comparative effectiveness research. I just wish the Dems will stop playing semantics and admit what everyone knows already: that we now live in a world with limited resources where rationing of any kind will be mandatory.

[hennie pennie]

I can't understand why they simply don't appoint a professional team of fraud investigators.

I've read that Medicare accounting practices have such poor oversight that many billions of dollars of fraudulent claims have been made.

WHY don't they want to get rid of the FRAUD, and then they might decide that rationing is utterly unnecessary, entirely irrational.

[LoneStarGI]

Keep firing, assholes!

[MrB]

I can't understand why they simply don't appoint a professional team of fraud investigators.

You can't understand this because you think the real goal is what they are stating as a goal.
If the real goal were to provide quality healthcare at low cost, your question is entirely valid.

But, since the real goal is actually control of the populace, your question doesn't mean anything.

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[hennie pennie]

Thank you, MrB --- I think I need a stronger cup of coffee this morning.

LOL.

[agere_contra]

that we now live in a world with limited resources where rationing of any kind will be mandatory.

We DON'T live in such a world, unless we allow socialism to destroy growth. This is why Malthus, Ehrlich etc were wrong. Free societies comprised of free people grow the economic pie for everybody. There is no such thing as a zero-sum economy unless you live under the grinding heel of socialism where wealth-producers are punished.

Admin Mod: this MollyKuehl looks like a troll to me. Exhibit A: newbie making airy declarative statements that support hard-line socialism, 'camouflaged' with a pro-FR tagline.

[FrdmLvr]

And your Party Affiliation.

[Notary Sojac]

There is no conceivable amount of economic growth which can sustain a system wherein two to three workers have to fund the complete, no-expense spared medical care of each retiree for 30+ years.

So, whether you trim it bit by bit through rationing or all at once through bankruptcy, Medicare is going away.

[Lancey Howard]

Ubama communism BUMP

[MollyKuehl]

Admin Mod: this MollyKuehl looks like a troll to me. Exhibit A: newbie making airy declarative statements that support hard-line socialism, 'camouflaged' with a pro-FR tagline.

LMAO, this is your argument? This is ALL you have? You mean to say that we have unlimited funds to support ongoing failed social programs and other nations? To keep allowing pay increases on gvt bureaucrats? Is that what you mean? The foolery simply doesn't end!!! But let me guess, you are without doubt a FioRINO endorser!!!

[Notary Sojac]

There are more than a few Freepers who don't understand that more and more medical services are going to be denied to Medicare beneficiaries because the system is going bust.

As long as those seasoned citizens have the option of paying for denied services with their own money (as they do now) I don't see this as "death panels" and I don't have any problem with it whatsoever.

[Notary Sojac]

In the context of this thread, my definition of “hard-line socialism” would be refusing to see the need to make drastic cuts in Medicare expenses.

[raptor22]

Berwick believes in the redistribution of health care.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2513891/posts

[MollyKuehl]

One of the big issues with ObamaCare is the fact that in 2011 federal cuts are taking effect on Medicare Advantage, up to 132 billion over the next decade. Simply put, services will be cut while premiums will increase. This will force all the Medicare Advantage patients to move to traditional Medicare coverage which means, alas, an increase in Medicare rolls. Which means more money to dish out, which we do not have so in turns, more cuts will take effect. Also seniors making over $85,000 will pay higher Part D premiums. Yeah, no tax increases, just increased premiums,.