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American Thinker: Nationalizing Life and Death
Holland has quickly broadened the scope of euthanasia, extending the "right to die" all the way down to 12-year olds, no parental consent required. If they can get an abortion, why can't they kill themselves?
Holland even legalized euthanasia for newborns. In some countries this is still considered infanticide. Recently an abortionist was jailed in the United States for throwing a survivor baby in a dumpster. A few inches is all that determines humanity in this country, but at least there's a standard.
It is hard to believe that only fifty years ago, it was Dutch doctors that stood up to Adolph Hitler's eugenicist policies and refused to kill weaker patients. What a difference a generation makes. Holland is a giant concentration camp. That is why it is so crucial for Americans to wake up before it's too late.
Bottom-line: if government is allowed to make healthcare about cost and not saving lives, it will degrade human worth to something not fit to mention. If government controls the medical profession, it controls life. We have a choice. America can go the way of Germany and Holland, or it can remain the beacon of hope for the world. The "right to choose" has been turned against us. What will we choose?
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For those that don't speak draconian, "comparative effectiveness" means that the cost of an individual's treatment will be divided by the number of years they are likely to benefit. If your treatment is too "costly" you will be thrown out with the bathwater. No country for old men. The bill also created the "Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research" to make comparative effectiveness decisions. Only 20 years after winning the Cold War we are adopting central planning as our preferred model. Only, instead of determining the number of toothbrushes, this committee will determine the value of someone's life. How ironic.
Nonsensible Shoes: Health Care will kill America
To round it all out, let's go back to Obama's campaign promise. His plan mentions forcing health insurance companies to "issue every applicant a policy and charge fair and stable premiums". So it's not exactly socialized medicine, it's worse. Why? Because he's going to do to insurance companies what the Community Reinvestment Act did to the banks - destroy them. Who decides what a fair premium is? And a very sick applicant can't be charged much more than a healthy one. Either the government puts the burden on the backs of the insurance companies or it soaks up the extra costs itself. Given that Obama has set the bar on cutting the deficit from astronomical levels to the merely ridiculous, perhaps both options are still possible, but neither option is good.
If you are a conservative, or even a liberal and you care one iota about the financial viability of your country, you have to fight this. This is as an ill-conceived a plan as the 1100 page unreadable stimulus plan that got jammed through the Legislature and signed into law with no reasonable debate. This one will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Obama Killing Off Elders w/Denial of Health Care
The generation of "youth" who voted in Obama seem depraved enough to enjoyinG killing their elders.
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Imagine that it is 2016, and you are a 65 year old boomer. You have been admitted to your local community hospital with malaise, fatigue, vomiting and cloudy mental status. You have had blood pressure problems and diabetes for a few years, and have just been diagnosed with renal failure. As you drift in and out of consciousness, you are vaguely aware your old family practice physician, who had taken care of you for 20 years, is not around. A religious man, he quietly retired from medical practice in 2014, after the full force of the Obama administration‘s removal of conscience protection for physicians in February, 2009, came into effect.You feel vaguely uncomfortable as you are placed in a darkened room in the Comfort Care wing of the hospital. In moments of lucidity, you wonder if you shouldn't have some oxygen, an IV or SOMETHING! But the appropriate therapy, kidney dialysis, is not on the approved list of treatments for patients over 65, having been deemed too expensive. The new regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services were presented just last month to your hospital's Futile Care Committee. It was decided at the highest levels that for those over 65 years of age, renal dialysis would not be a beneficial treatment, that the alternatives of a kidney transplant were too expensive, and that your quality of life on chronic dialysis would be too diminished.
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey
fuck barak obama and all of the pigs who serve him
Why Insure Kids You Want Dead Obama?
Resident Pig, the bumbling wraith from hell - Obama - insures hell for future generations.
President Barack Obama kept one campaign pledge Wednesday afternoon and at the same time violated another when he signed into law the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which extends health care coverage to 11 million low-income children.
The White House views the SCHIP legislation as a down payment on Obama’s pledge to provide universal health care by the end of his first term. The bill ran into some partisan resistance because it allows states for the first time to use federal money to cover children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants.
Daily Express | UK News :: Computer fiasco costs hospital £10m
The boss of an NHS hospital has condemned the Government’s computerised medical records database, saying it has led to fewer patients being seen and cost his trust £10million.
Andrew Way, chief executive of the Royal Free Hospital, in north-west London, said staff were “incredibly disappointed”.
Obama will kill us all one way or another
It could also pave the way for further health-care rationing if President Obama gets his way in terms of overhauling the entire health-care system. For instance, President Obama's campaign health-care plan calls for subsidies to be given to Americans to purchase health-care from a government run exchange, choosing between a Medicare-like government plan and among private options. The government could mandate that any insurer participating in the government-run exchange must adopt the effectiveness recommendations of the Federal Coordinating Council, and the government could use its increased leverage in the health insurance market to pressure other insurers to go along. Congress could even go further, and pass a law saying that in order for an insurance policy to be eligible for the employer tax deduction, it must follow the same set of recommendations. All of this is spelled out in detail in Daschle's book, which was widely praised by Obama. But more relevant to the current debate, it's another example of how the stimulus package has been used by Democrats as a ruse to achieve some long-standing policy goals that aren't relevant to stimulating the economy.
VQR » Tropical Depression
Cuba has the highest rate of depression and suicide in the New World. So why does Castro’s vaunted health care system deny the very existence of mental illness on the island?
Barack Obama Will Ration Your Health Care - WSJ.com
It is nearly certain that the process of determining which drugs and which treatments would be approved for use would be quickly politicized. The details of health-care policy may not be kitchen table conversation, but the fact that a Washington committee can deny grandma a hip replacement due to her age, or your sister a new and expensive drug, is. Health care is personal and voters will pressure lawmakers on access to care.
Liberal experts, Mr. Daschle included, believe that America needs to ration new technology and drugs. In his book, Mr. Daschle complains about overuse of new technology and praises the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), a rationing system that controls government costs. NICE's denial of care is legendary -- from the arthritis drug Abatacept to the lung cancer drug Tarceva. These drugs are effective. It's just that the bureaucrats don't consider them cost effective.
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He punts the hard decisions about rationing to an unelected board.
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One of the great myths in health care is that the uninsured are responsible for driving up private premiums by shifting costs. Uncompensated care certainly shifts some costs to private payers. Yet these costs are actually quite manageable in the aggregate, akin to what retailers lose due to shoplifting. The major cost shift is from government programs -- Medicare and Medicaid -- to private plans.
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