Thursday, August 23, 2012

ObamaCare

This was a con job from the beginning. Not only is it going to cost Americans more money. The number of uninsured will ultimately be as high or higher than it is now. Mostly in the Middle class. To top it all off, our treatment quality will decline significantly - Livestrongest ---------- Under Obamacare, it’s presumed that government officials are better qualified to make these decisions, and it’s a safe bet that they will be instructed to weigh each patient’s anticipated future contributions to society against the long-term costs of keeping that patient alive. President Obama made it clear that this is exactly where we are headed when he said, “Maybe you are better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.” He was doubtlessly thinking ahead to a time when the cost to government will take precedence over what’s best for the individual. Government-run health care is the most cold-hearted health care. For example, the U.K.’s National Health Service denies kidney dialysis to patients over the age of 55 just to save money. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/23/obamacare-and-the-vanishing-medical-miracle/#ixzz24P2HhZNv

9 comments:

  1. Death panels will be the reality of the next decade...

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    1. We have death panels now.... If we have no insurance, our care options are very limited. Insurance companies and not doctors decide what and how much they will pay, not the doctors giving care. Cost will always be a limitation in ones ability to receive certain treatments. Most folks can't afford blue ribbon insurance policies.

      Having said that, I don't know that I think a panel comprised of government bureaucrats is the way to good health, good medical care and long life.....

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  2. You are correct twins,also as with any government program as funds run short,and they will,services will be cut.
    Don't think so Tennessee, ran short of money on their TenCare program and as a result they started cutting services and they also dropped some of the most needy patients,read that some of the most expensive patients from coverage.

    SO this is what you can expect in the long run,less coverage for some,less services for all.

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  3. Wouldn't you think that high end health care would still be available for purchase by those with the means to do so? Even if it becomes unavailable here, it surely will be available somewhere in the world. I would think that enterprising insurance companies would start selling policies that include travel and health care in foreign countries.

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  4. While I am no fan of Obamacare, I am not a fan of misinformation for effects sake. Its interesting that the claim above about kidney dialysis is for people above 55, the orignial source was from an anonymous e-mail that stated 59.... Neither of which are true. In response to much of what is being said about the UK's NHS to slam Obamacare, the Guardian, a UK publication quizzed NHS and other health groups about UK care limitations. Another also asked Age Concern, an age rights group about the deficiencies and by in large they were either wrong or stretched.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/11/nhs-sick-healthcare-reform

    http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe-election-politics/745482-senior-death-warrants.html

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  5. It's the 15 person commission that is tasked with cutting cost from medicare (500 billion) that will be the real death panel. People enrolled in Obamacare will experience delays. Medicare will cut payments to physicians, hospitals making it more difficult to find a provider for seniors.

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  6. This however is a legitimate (IMHO) reason why the whole subject of why we must have national health-care as a requirement of government is wrong. The government is and has been the problem with health-care costs all along.. not the solution.

    http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=210446

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  7. Cute little corollary between then and now....

    is from page 229 of Amity Shlaes’s 2007 book, The Forgotten Man:

    At tea at his house the year before, [FDR's Secretary of Labor Frances] Perkins has sat beside Justice Harlan Stone, and he gave her a tip. She had confided her fears that any great social insurance system would be rejected by his court. Not so, he said, and whispered back the solution: “The taxing power of the federal government my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.” If the Social Security Act was formulated as a tax, and not government insurance, it could get through.


    Lifted from: http://cafehayek.com

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  8. Scott,
    The government is and has been the problem with health-care costs all along.. not the solution.

    Very correct Scott. Today they control Medicare and Medicaid and the VA. The governments idea of reducing healthcare cost is by reducing payouts to Doctors and the supporting facilities. It doesn't lower cost it raises costs to the private insurance industry as the healthcare industry passes the governments lower costs to the private sector.

    Instead of addressing the true cost of healthcare, obesity, regulation, lawyers, the government just cuts the payout addressing nothing.

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