Seniors are rapidly becoming suspicious and unhappy with Obama's Healthcare. They look at that $400,000,000,000 to $700,000,000,000 cut in Medicare to pay for the lion's share of the trillion dolllar bill and ask themselves what is being cut from their current benefits, benefits they have paid into for many years. Not to worry though, Congress and the President feel your pain and concern compounded by the COLA freeze on Social Security. They are giving seniors a $250 bribe to bring you back into the fold.
Many seniors believe death panels are real and will only be labeled euphemistically as Government appointees to a council who will ration care and use formulas that include cost of service and treatment against the projected end of life. Cost effectiveness not extension of life is the principle for determination of approved care. Daschle still has Obama's confidence and is a main player in the Obamacare push. It's all in Tom Daschle's book folks. I resurrected one of my old posts that explains the point in more detail.
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Originally Posted by cabo35
My wife said she read where Tom Daschle, Obama's flawed and rejected choice for implementing his national health care system, advocated a program that would put the elderly at the back of the bus for health care with a formula that would treat younger patients first and base treatment on a formula that calculated life expectancy and potential productive years.
Wow....that's callous and cruel in so many ways.
Could this be a harbinger of Obama's change?
This is what Daschele said and I have included the source and Stimulus reference in the link provided so Tony doesn't put me in jail.
Elderly Hardest Hit
"Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464). "
"The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aLzfDxfbwhzs
So....we old folk should just accept, disease, debilitation and let death take its course without a fight or treatment so others defined by Obama and his cohorts can get treatment. I wonder who would be at the top of his socially or should I say politically engineered list......pause for reflection. Is it just me at 68 that is offended?
Hmmmm......I would have liked to put more thought into this post but, I have a 9:30 tee time. Please excuse typos, I'm running late. I would be interested in your thoughts after the 19th hole. |
Message to Congress and the White House - Keep the 250 bucks, it will not buy my soul or my vote.
Keep your powder dry....this isn't over.