Posted on 02/17/2020 6:41:49 AM PST by libstripper
A new video posted on Sunday shows former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg explaining how healthcare will “bankrupt us,” unless we deny care to the elderly.
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“If You Show Up with Cancer and You’re 95 – We Should Say We Can’t Do Anything.”
Who is “you,” and who is “we?”
I’m not sure this guy would ever figure out the fundamental problem here even as he’s getting herded into a boxcar at gunpoint.
How about 94 and 11 months old?
Remember Alan Grayson’s-—”Republicans want you to die” speech.....Good times....good times.....
Go for it, Bloomberg! I triple dog dare you!
won’t apply to ones in the govt, you know the elite ones!
It is their plan... he made the mistake of saying it before he was in charge.. they already kill babies at birth... (first it was first 3 months.. then 6.. then birth)… the elderly is next. and the disabled and the ‘lazy’... ya know the progression with these socialists... in the end, it’s THEM and only THEM and those who serve them... who get to live and live wealthy...
They offer sticks to draw votes.. pay for your student loan... sounds good... but it’s a stick with poison on the end... reach out and take the stick.... it will be the last thing you get from these socialists.
You make a good point. Healthcare is rationed under our system right now. It’s rationed by your ability to pay through insurance or out of your own pocket. Though one of the reasons we have Medicare is because there is no profit in insuring the health of old people.
Now if the democrats were smart they would reframe their argument to why are we spending millions of dollars extending the life of an 80 year old by a few years instead of using that money to save the lives of children. Of course children don’t vote, 80 years old do.
I’m a retired doctor and I don’t think anyone should get an aspirin for free at any age. That is the problem, right there. Is there any other field of human endeavor where the consumer and payee are two different people?
Sure the bastards will start off with folks in their 90’s, then those in their 80’s etc. But you can bet the bureaucrats will never be affected.
“Eventually it ends when no one can get care.”
Except democrats in power, of course.
If your family has good political connections you will get whatever you want in the new Socialist paradise.
Some pigs are always more equal than others.
It’s time we all take a realistic look at this issue. We complain about everyone not having all the healthcare they want and then complain about having to pay for it. I’m in the elderly category and I realize the good deal I have with my Medicare Advantage. I have medical problems BUT I go to the dr. very sparingly. I have some personal wealth and have to ask myself how much of that personal wealth am I willing to spend to extend my life and the answer to that is I’m not willing to spend all of it so why should I expect others to spend their money to extend my life. Rough, very expensive cancer treatment on the very elderly is not reasonable, especially when these treatments are no guarantee of success. There are always alternative treatments that may be more reasonable.
My father in law lived to be 92. The last three years were miserable and he was basically waiting to die. But in those three years he had hundreds of thousands of dollars of surgery for various ailments.
My wife and I are 66 and have no health insurance. We are also Christians with two bonefide health related miracles and an additional one that we think was miraculous. If one of us gets Cancer, we go natural cure, which has worked for two acquaintences. But we are very much prepared to die. It’s almost as much a sure thing as paying taxes. And the Lord will take us at a time of HIS choosing, not ours.
Basically same thing bammy said....tell granny she’ll have to take a pill.
Is there any other field of human endeavor where the consumer and payee are two different people?
If you want something to be expensive, just make sure the person using it is not the person paying for it.
Yeah, well, Bloomberg, my mom is 90 and my dad 89 and they’ve both had cancer in the last five years. Both are still here, and now cancer free.
He should go have that conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
He would have been there welcoming his fellow Jews off the trains.
If I get diagnosed with cancer at 95 I’d chose to let it go on my own. Chemo is just too hard on a body. 95 is a good life ... I hope I make it that long.
But that should be your choice, not the government’s.
The problem is that the entire medical profession will be crippled by state run healthcare.
Less young people will go into the highly regulated, less lucrative medical profession.
When there are shortages in medical care (see Canada, UK), it turns out the rules are “there are no rules”.
The politically connected get the best possible service, while the rest of the population is out of luck.
Currently well-to-do (and even upper middle class) folks from Canada and elsewhere flee to the US to get their care.
If we go down the toilet where do they flee next?
My prediction: there would be an off-shore “health haven” somewhere that everyone around the world would have to pay to visit to get the health care they need when they need it.
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