Obama Says Let the Elderly and Very Sick Die...but Not His Family!

During his recent ABC health care forum, which nearly everyone agrees was so one-sided and biased toward Obama and the yellow journalistic style of ABC, Obama made it abundantly clear that he'd opt to let our terminally ill and senior citizens die when they could be expected to run up big charges on the health care system, but wouldn't promise that he'd forego those costs for his own family. Whatta guy that Prez is..whatta human being!

Here's part of his discussion:

WASHINGTON -- In ABC News health care Forum, the President answered questions about health care reform.

President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people -- like the president himself -- wouldn't face.

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News' special on health care reform, "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother I always want them to get the very best care."

(Thus...although we would have to suffer, people like him won't because they have money or they're "better" or whatever. And this jerk is proposing a system that covers "all Americans". Isn't he one of US? Obviously, he and the elitist government bureaucrats are NOT ONE OF US!)

"There's a whole bunch of care that's being provided that every study, that every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier," he said. (Can you say double-talk here? If it's evidence, then it either is or is not, "may not" is just nonsense. And "whole bunch...do you like those specifics?)

Gibson interjected that often patients don't know what will work until they get every test they can.

"Often times we know what makes sense and what doesn't," the president responded, making a push for evidence-based medicine. (Obviously Obama doesn't know what makes sensse or not!)

Gibson asked the president if it doesn't make sense to decide what the limitations will be on options in any health care reform proposal before voting on it.

"That's what people are afraid of," Gibson said.

The president said he understood the American people "know they're living with the devil, but the devil they know instead of the devil they don't."

(We do know the devil. He lives in the White House and his name is Obama. He's not willing to subject him and his family to the same rules as everybody else, but willing to throw the rest of America under the bus to reach fulfilment of his agendas. Really a nice guy. Thanks to all who voted for this buffoon!)

What people are concerned with is Senior and Terminally Ill euthanasia where the "system" simply decides that it's time for you to go, based on an algorithm of cost versus your worth. Hell, the insurance companies already do that when you reach your maximum insurance value and they pay no more. If you can't afford to carry on treatment you either go home to die or end up in some indigent situation with inadequate care and die anyway. What is so different about the Obama thoughts on this?

The statement was bantered about at some point that in the final years of a persons life they incur 80% of all their medical bills. During this ABC Forum, Obama indicated that some 30% of all Medicare costs are spent in the final year of a person's life. He further indicated that perhaps, surgery might not be the answer where painkillers might be used more wisely where life might not be prolonged.

The point is, do we want bureaucrats making life and death decisions for us? Do we want government funded doctors making those choices, where their pay, and perhaps bonuses, come from how many patients they see off to the graveyard and off the medical system this year? That's not only scary, but a real possibility when the government gets oversight of your records and has it's large hand in your medical care. Doctors selected by the bureaucracy decide that you are too sick/frail/old/costly or whatever and should not have expensive treatment to maintain your life. Thus your treating physician prescribes palliative care and you slowly slip into the sunset. Sound like something out of a cheap television movie? Nope...just another political wrangling to spend your money while using smoke and mirrors showing you how well you're being taken care of.

If anyone wants to take you to the showers for any reason...be very afraid....