A Preview of Obamacare?
 

Is this a preview of what we can expect with Obamacare planned cuts of $100 Billion per year from Medicare?
http://www.patientpowernow.org/2009/...arbara-wagner/


Unknown to most people, the state of Oregon has had in place a healthcare plan similar to the proposed system under Obamacare. The Canadian Medical Association Journal carefully examined the Oregon plan and drew the conclusion that the plan rationed care, ranked different medical services and specifically excluded services that were lower in the list despite recommendation by Physicians.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...gi?artid=81116

You will have to click on the tables to find the priorities.

This would appear to be the idea judging from President Obama’s comments, referring to his grandmother, during his interview with the NY Times.

“So now she’s in the hospital, and the doctor says, Look, you’ve got about — maybe you have three months, maybe you have six months, maybe you have nine months to live. Because of the weakness of your heart, if you have an operation on your hip there are certain risks that — you know, your heart can’t take it. On the other hand, if you just sit there with your hip like this, you’re just going to waste away and your quality of life will be terrible.
And she elected to get the hip replacement and was fine for about two weeks after the hip replacement, and then suddenly just — you know, things fell apart.
I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost. I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother. Whether, sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill is a sustainable model, is a very difficult question.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/ma...2&ref=magazine