Obama Will Pay For Healthcare on the Backs or Should I Say the Graves of Seniors

According to the administration Obama’s healthcare plan is essential to our economic recovery. We have been told that rising healthcare costs will bankrupt small businesses and are the driving force behind the government’s sky rocketing deficit. While it is certainly arguable whether or not all of this is true, everybody agrees that lowering the cost of healthcare is a worthy goal. The issue is how should it be done. Obama tells us that we could reduce the cost and cover more people if the government becomes more involved. I am sorry but increased government involvement and lower costs just do not go together but then again some do call Obama the Messiah.

The reality is the only way a government controlled healthcare program can reduce costs is to reduce services and this is exactly what the President is suggesting. When asked how will he pay for his plan he says two thirds of the cost will come from cutting out waste. I believe that the President considers treating seniors as waste. I know that sounds extreme but consider this, in the House bill HR3200 there is a provision that will require everyone who is 65 years old or older to meet with a practitioner at least every 5 years to discuss end of life issues. You can read this provision for yourself it is in section 1233 of the bill.

Some will say that I am reading too much into section 1233. They say it is a good idea it merely explains the options and services available to people as they near the end of their life expectancy. Interesting but I believe one of the purposes of those meeting is to discuss a senior’s “duty to die”. I know this sounds all too much like Logan’s Run but it is the way the administration is thinking. Before you say Warren you have gone way too far this time did you know that at a town hall meeting Obama actually suggested that because of someone’s age it may have been better if she would have just taken a pain pill rather than get a pacemaker! No this is not a rumor or taken out of context watch it for yourself.

Most of us don’t read The Journal of The American Medical Association so thanks to Liberty’s Army for finding a June 18th article written by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. In case that names sounds familiar Ezekiel is the brother of the President’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, he is also a health policy advisor in the Office of Management and Budget for the Obama administration. In his article he writes. Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others”

Obama is taking a queue from the lyrics of a song by The Who
for his healthcare plan “ I hope I die before I get old”. Well I hope the American people will take a queue from the lyrics of another Who song “ We won’t be fooled again”.