Bullshit. Obamacare is completely partisan, passed by Democrats on legislative bribery and procedural slight-of-hand. And just this morning, when we wake up and turn on our TV news, we're hearing about provisions which heavily fine hospitals for readmitting Medicare patients. And you know why they're doing that?... it's because they want healthcare RATIONED to the elderly. They want to force them onto hospice care so they can die without the most modern treatments because those treatments might be expensive. Mitt Romney had NOTHING to do with that. That's all on Obama.
Democrats want to decide when the fight for life is over and when "taking a pill" is good enough. And where will these people go when hospitals brush them off because they happened to have a relapse? Oh yeah... the grave.
If
your parent or grandparent is on Medicare TODAY, they are at risk TODAY of not receiving the best course of treatment. But if you're an illegal alien... hey, you're in.
It's sick. And to say that Mitt Romney had anything whatsoever to do with such a morally twisted, evil thing is an absolute falsehood.
Most legislation is partisan. That doesn't make it illegitimate.
And you are completely clueless about the readmission provisions. The purpose isn't to ration care. It's for hospitals to pursue the right course of treatment the first time, instead of just doing enough to push the patient out the door. We shouldn't be giving incentives for hospitals to just patch someone up and throw them back out the door, then have them reenter the hospital a few weeks later.
What a pantload. It's not a coincidence that Democrats couldn't get their end-of-life provision through and then settled upon another method to accomplish the same goal. There's no financial incentive for hospitals to dump out patients. That incentive comes from insurance companies who don't want to pay, Medicare being chief among them. To say that it's
hospitals who are the problem makes no sense whatsoever.
Democrats are the ones who pushed this mess through. And they did it so they can legally RATION CARE to old people. That's who you stand with.... people who would encourage the death of your mother or your grandma in order to save a buck. If your loved one on Medicare today, suffers a heart attack, is hospitalized and treated, and a month later destabilizes and needs a pacemaker, the hospital is going to do its best to discourage her readmission. Neither she nor you will know who to trust or believe when it comes to her treatment.
Here's Obama insider, Stephen Rattner admitting it in a NYT op-ed dated Sept. 16th:
(bold is mine)
WE need death panels.
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.
But 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.
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Medicare needs to take a cue from Willie Sutton, who reportedly said he robbed banks because thatÂ’s where the money was. The big money in Medicare is not to be found in Mr. RyanÂ’s competition or Mr. ObamaÂ’s innovation, but in
reducing the cost of treating people in the last year of life, which consumes more than a quarter of the programÂ’s budget.
No one wants to lose an aging parent. And with price out of the equation, it’s natural for patients and their families to try every treatment, regardless of expense or efficacy. But that imposes an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear. Many countries whose health care systems are regularly extolled — including Canada, Australia and New Zealand — have systems for rationing care.
cont...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/o...form-beyond-obamacare.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
This is about pushing elderly patients toward palliative care, where life-sustaining treatments will be denied. They failed to incentivize doctors to make that push with the carrot, so instead they apply the stick to hospitals.
