PoliticalChic
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I knew the first people targeted would be the elderly.
It is, in fact, a critical requirement of ObamaCare.
1. Democrat Tom Daschle, original nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department, and 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.
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey - Bloomberg
2. Dr. David Blumenthal, a Harvard professor and key health advisor to President Obama, conceded that "government controls on health care spending are associated with longer waits for elective procedures and reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices." Could this mean angioplasty, bypass surgery, hip replacement, and knee replacement? Who could this be aimed at? How about longer waits for cancer patients? Mammograms and MRIs? Defend Your Healthcare
3. Slipped into the emergency stimulus legislation was substantial funding for a Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, comparative effectiveness research is generally code for limiting care based on the patient's age. The CER would identify (this is language from the draft report on the legislation) medical "items, procedures, and interventions" that it deems insufficiently effective or excessively expensive. They "will no longer be prescribed" by federal health programs. Are you thinking seniors? George F. Will - How the GOP Should Measure the Stimulus
4. "Beyond Obamacare...WE need death panels.
...unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently rationing, by its proper name the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.
...in the pantheon of toxic issues the famous third rails of American politics none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.
In 2009, Sarah Palins rant about death panels even forced elimination from the bill of a provision to offer end-of-life consultations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/o...form-beyond-obamacare.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0