Well, it comes as no surprise to those of us who try to pay attention to what is going on rather than to just follow whatever is the current fad, that ObamaCare is exactly how Sarah Palin described it – Death Panels. Remember how the media ridiculed her for making that statement? It won’t be so funny when bureaucrats are deciding what procedures you and/or your loved ones can or can not have. In the 1990s the decisions started being made by the insurance companies under Clinton’s medical care reforms. At that time we were told health care would get cheaper and more easily available as HMOs were introduced. I remember thinking at the time that Americans would never stand for having decisions about which doctors they could see or what treatment they could receive be taken out of their hands. But we stood by and let that happen. Healthcare got more expensive. All those reforms did was change the pockets the money went into from the doctors to the insurance companies.
Now, I wonder if we’ll stand by while more of our decision making power is taken away from us. This time the money will change from the insurance companies into the pockets of the politicians and bureaucrats. Is it REALLY okay with us, as Americans, to have decisions about our health care being made by a civil servant who determines our needs by the guidelines of some massive tax-law type policy manual and some formula as to whether or not saving your life is cost-effective for the government?
You won’t just be a number to them, you’ll be a ‘unit’.
How I long for the days when patients and doctors made those decisions.
Listen to the neurosurgeon in the video below discussing what he learned at an HHS seminar in Washington DC about ObamaCare.
h/t Wizbang
Told ya so—-I’ve already been pushed into one of those units’…where my care is too costly and now no longer covered.
The one good thing they offer is if you go in hospice, then it’s all covered as long as you die—no fair trying to get well! They’ll call you fraudulent!
I don’t believe Mark Levin, he is a lying SOB.
Tom – I will take you out of time out if you’ll just make an effort at civility. Discussion is fine, abuse isn’t. Cussing should be at least masked in some way (ie: a$$, etc.) Will you behave?
Actually Tom, its not Mark Levin who is telling what happened at the meeting in Washington, its the neurosurgeon. So whether or not you believe Levin is irrelevant.
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