Here's an article which backs up Posey's post. And don't think this will just involve end of life issues as far as whether care will be given. If you are unfortunate enough to break a hip after you are 65, you just may be flat outta luck. The progressives have a long history of supporting eugenics:
Friday, July 17, 2009
Obamacare will gut Medicare The impact on the elderly will, for some, be deadly.
Obama's health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access.
Indeed, the principal impact of the Obama health care program will be to reduce sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their every need to improve their quality of life answered.
It is ironic that the elderly – who were so vigilant when President Bush proposed to change Social Security – are so relaxed about the Obama health care proposals. Bush's Social Security plan, which did not cut their benefits at all, aroused the strongest opposition among the elderly. But Obama's plan, which will totally gut Medicare and replace it with government-managed care and rationing, has elicited little more than a yawn from most senior citizens.
It's time for the elderly to wake up before it is too late!
The elderly of Canada are feeling the consequences from just this kind of program. Limited colonoscopies have led to a 25 percent higher rate of colon cancer, and a ban on the use of the two best chemotherapies are part of the reason why 42 percent of Canadians with colon cancer die, while 31 percent of Americans, who have access to these two medications, survive the disease.
Overall, the death rate from cancer in Canada is 16 percent higher than in the United States and the heart disease mortality rate is 6 percent above ours.
Under Obama's program, there will be a government health insurance company that gets huge subsidies of tax money. It will compete with private insurance plans. But the subsidies will let it undercut the private plans and drive them out of business, leaving only the government plan – a single payer – in effect.
Today, 800,000 doctors struggle to treat adequately the 250 million Americans who have insurance. Obama will add 50 million more to their caseload with no expansion in the number of doctors or nurses. Indeed, his plan will likely reduce their number by lowering reimbursement rates and imposing bureaucrats above them who will force medical decisions down their throats. Fewer doctors will have to treat more patients.
The inevitable result will be rationing.
And it is the elderly whom rationing will most effect. Who should get a knee replacement, a 40-year-old or a 70-year-old? Who should get a new hip, a young person or an old person? Who should have priority in the operating room, a 70-year-old diabetic who needs bypass surgery or a younger person?
Obviously, it is the elderly who will get short shrift under his proposal. But the interest groups that usually speak up for the elderly, particularly the
AARP, are in Obama's pocket, hoping to profit from his program by becoming one of its vendors. Just as they backed Bush's prescription drug plan because they anticipated profiting from it, so they are now helping Obama gut the medical care of their constituents.
It is high time that the elderly of America realized what the stakes are in this vital fight to preserve Medicare as we know it and keep medical care open, accessible and free to those over 65. It is truly a battle for their very lives.
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To make what is being planned by Obama even clearer here is a quote from page 425 of the Obamacare Plan." This is absolutely chilling. How ironic--it should be the "Obamadon't care and let me show you the door" plan. Oh and yeah, don't let the door knob hit you on the way out (that's the compassion part):
"On page 425,
the Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely required that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner: how to decline nutrition, how to decline hydration, how to go into hospice care...and by the way, the bill expressly says that if you get sick, somewhere in that five year period, if you get a cancer diagnosis, for example, you have to go through that session, again....
all to do what's in societies best interest, or your family's best interest and cut your life short...these are such sacred issues of life and death - government should have nothing to do with it".
For more on this and a couple videos:
Health Care Advocate Betsy McCaughey: ObamaCare's "A Vicious Assault On The Elderly" (Two must-hear audios) :: Political News and commentaries :: Hyscience