Obama Health Care--Death and Dying

Last week during a Healthcare Event at the White House, President Obama said something which should completely scare us back into reality, more especially if you should be a "senior citizen". The President suggested? that one way costs can be saved in health-care is to not spend money on procedures that "evidence shows [are] not necessarily going to improve care" for the sick and the dying. "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller".

This is Obama "socialist" speak, and needs to be translated to be really understood. What the President was saying was that under his plan, some impersonal bureaucrat, evaluating solely on "costs" to the government health care system, will decide who lives and dies. This includes you, your mother, your father, other family members and friends. If you should need a transplant, a heart operation or expensive therapy for a chance at life, under Obama's plan a bureaucrat will determine its cost to the government. This bureaucrat will then perform a "cost/benefit" analysis, on extending your life. If you're too old, the choice will already have been made. This bureaucrat will follow the rules he is given in regards to "rationing".

A good example would be if you should be over 65 years old and required open heart surgery. You could be told that extending your life by 10-15 years with expensive surgery is not "worth it" to the "government health care program". Simply put, the operation would not be paid for and you would be left to die. Or you possibly could be placed on a "waiting list" (for an indefinite period of time), and die waiting on your scheduled surgery. One of the issues to be faced in a "government health care plan" will be the exploding costs of health care in this socialized paradise. Once this begins to happen, the bureaucrats will have to find ways to control the costs more and more. The cut off age for expensive treatments, surgeries, ect. will be lowered and then lowered again. It may begin at 70, but in attempts to control the rising costs the age will have to be lowered, to 65, then to 60, then to 55. Where will it stop? The more the health care costs explode, the lower the age will be. It will not be long before you and I are caught in the net, with our own lives at stake.

I know. Many of you are saying this could never happen here in America. There's no way that some unknown bureaucrat will make a decision if I should live or die. My friend, you had better think again. The countries of Canada and England have had socialized medicine for the past 30 years and that is what happens every day. They each have health care rationing in place, with that bureaucrat deciding who lives and who dies, who is treated and who is not. He will make the decision, not you.

In the Obama health care world, every day sick people who have been deemed undeserving of treatment, will DIE. It is a socialistic program, which Canada and England already are living under. It is our future, if Obama has his way. I sincerely hope this short posting awakens you to the threat we are facing. If you have been watching the Town Hall meetings, then I am sure you are aware there are many Americans refusing to take this laying down. No matter what we are called, or how we are threatened. Until the next time.