The “Cash for Clunkers” program has worked so well it is broke. The four-month program went broke in four days by giving away our tax dollars to help the auto industry it now owns.
So, the government that can’t run a “Cash for Clunkers” wants to run a government healthcare program?
Obamacare sounds like it will take some patients off the road with, as the president calls them, those tough “life-ending” decisions that could save $500 billion in Medicare costs.
With Medicare and Social Security projected to go bankrupt in a few years and all the other successful programs like public housing, why shouldn’t we entrust our healthcare to a bunch of federal bureaucrats?
Maybe, we could just sit down with the doctors and have a few beers. During the summit, we might be able to persuade them to quit yanking the tonsils out of kids that come into their office with a sore throat.
The Canadian Healthcare system is a good case in point. In Canada, if a patient needs CT Scan, they can get you in the next day. There’s only one catch – you have to buy your food at the pet shop. Humans have to wait a month.
In Canada, a lady was told she would have to wait 4-6 months to have arterial surgery. She came to America, had it immediately and the doctor told her that she would have died within two weeks.
One town in Canada actually has a lottery and if you are chosen, you get a primary care physician.
The average wait in an emergency room is 23 hours.
In England, you have to wait in line for days to register for a dentist. Many pull their own teeth with a pair of pliers and vodka. Also in England, you are 5 times more likely to die of breast cancer and 8 times more likely to die of prostate cancer.
In regards to older patients, Obama said, “At least we can let doctors know this (procedure) is isn’t going to help.” Who are “we”? Does he have a medical degree?
Here’s how their system works. Your chance of getting certain procedures is based on taking your life expectancy and dividing the cost of your treatment. It is called the “comparative effective research” which is also known as “rationing.”
Your healthcare could be denied if you don’t fall under the guidelines or as President Obama said, “you might be better off not having the surgery and taking a painkiller.” Why not just give us all a morphine pump when we hit 65?
The World Health Organiztion ranked our healthcare system #1 in the world and Congress and the Obama Administration have set out to destroy it. A recent poll showed that 85% of Americans said they were happy with their healthcare.
Room for improvement? Sure. But, why not address the areas of concern instead of forcing the type of healthcare that Congress and Obama have already stated they would not make use of themselves? Because it is not about healthcare – it’s about power and control over our lives.
As for the 45 million without healthcare coverage, approximately 15 million of them are illegal immigrants and 15 million are 18-35, healthy and could purchase it, but choose not to do so.
The other 15 million with pre-existing conditions or inability to purchase coverage deserve our attention. Why aren’t we concentrating on them?
So, if you want the bureaucratic “Health Benefits Advisory Committee” in Washington making the decisions on your healthcare instead of you, your family and your doctor, you’re going to love Obamacare.
How are we going to pay for it? That’s the best part. Taxpayers get to pay $1 trillion while cuts in Medicare pays for the other $500 billion. Just a thought – if we can save $500 billion a year in Medicare, why aren’t we already doing it?
Also, under Obamacare, every five years after you start receiving Medicare, you will be required to attend a counseling session on how to end your life sooner.
It sounds like Dr. Kevorkian will be doing the counseling. If you become a burden to society, it’s time to pull the plug.
Scary stuff. But, when you have someone leading the country that voted against an Illinois bill in 2003 called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which permitted babies born during botched abortions to be given medical treatment and allowed to live, is it surprising?
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