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Euthanasia By Attrition
July 5, 2010
Obamacare medicare cuts leading doctors to drop elderly patients
“Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the pain killer.”- President Barack Obama
Barely three months after being bribed and threatened through congress, Obamacare is being exposed for the big lie it had always been. Health insurance premiums continue to increase, employer based plans are being discontinued, Obamacare taxes on business burden an already crippled economy, and not one uninsured American will be covered until 2014.
As our president and democratic congressional leaders have always known, socialized medicine has failed miserably in every country in which it has been implemented. And rationing of treatment, beginning with the elderly, followed by the handicapped and chronically ill, is by economic necessity part and parcel of every government healthcare program in existence.
So it begins in America with the Healthcare Reform Act’s well publicized $500 billion in Medicare cuts which will, in effect, lower the cost of Medicare simply by reducing the number of doctors willing or able to treat the elderly.
Since Obamacare’s passage on March 22, thousands of doctors have threatened to drop Medicare patients if the cuts were enacted. Congress hastily rescinded the 21.3 percent cut in Medicare reimbursements scheduled to take effect last week, and passed in it’s place a token 2% pay increase in the reimbursement rate. But the next scheduled cut, coming after the November elections, will likely be a different story.
One of most insidious of the many evils incorporated into socialized medicine is government control of doctors’ fees. The inevitable result is a drastic drop in the number of doctors and the quality of medicine practiced.
In this video from the Heritage Foundation, Dr Martha Boone details how increasing the number of Americans on government health insurance programs under Obamacare may make it financially unfeasible for many doctors to remain in practice.
With fewer doctors willing to accept the only insurance they have available, the elderly will become less of a burden to America’s new government controlled healthcare program in relatively short order. Euthanasia by attrition. And in years to come, Doctor Assisted Suicide will become part of Obamacare’s benefit package. With a scarcity of medical care, a visit from Dr Kervorkian might very well seem to be the most attractive option available. Socialism has little use for the elderly.
Hippocratic oath for our officials
Not one major program or piece of legislation initiated by President Barack Obama, or his democratic congress, has been of any benefit to the nation. Most of the president’s initiatives have, in fact, exacerbated the ills facing the country on the day Mr Obama took office, or created new ones. The worst of these is the dismantling of the finest healthcare system in the world.
If we the people have learned anything from the Obama era it is this. Beginning in 2011, a phrase derived from the original Hippocratic oath must be inserted into the oath of office sworn by any government official: “First, I will do no harm.”
Under those terms, we could have cleaned house in Washington at least half a year ago.
Category: "Obamacare, Socialized Medicine
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