I believe the new health care fiasco bill being discussed now plans to cut health care, not find new ways to treat new diseases. Many with Morgellons fit the "old" category. So rationed care for you (they are already squeezing hospitals and medicare benefits even before any potential new legislation passes). Meanwhile O, who has a boat load of money which has conveniently fallen his way since being elected as a senator, says he wants nothing but the best for his current family (wife and daughters) if they are in the same circumstances. This no doubt includes his wonderful self when he is old. I heard this view in a discussion on the radio where O said this himself (it is not found in the following article). As dear sweet O says about the rest of us, who are not so wealthy, well, we are just flat outta luck unless we are wealthy. And they have plans for those wealthy folks too, grab their money and run:
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Obama Wants to Let Those Pesky Geezers Die Obama Wants to Let Those Pestky Geezers Die
By Matthew Vadum on 6.25.09 @ 2:36PM
In a rare moment of candor, President Obama explained to an audience how government-run healthcare would work in America.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.
In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."
He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."
Obama said he has personal familiarity with such a dilemma. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given less than nine months to live, he said.
She fell and broke her hip, "and the question was, does she get hip replacement surgery, even though she was fragile enough they were not sure how long she would last?" [...]
So, old people:
screw you. In the future Uncle Sam will put you on an ice floe and let you float away to your heavenly reward. It gives new meaning to the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." (In English, How sweet and glorious it is to die for one's country.)
Medical decisions should be made by patients, their families, and their doctors, not by government bureaucrats, but that's ObamaCare for you.