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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Reducing Obamacare Costs by Reducing the Number of People

As Obamacare bureaucrats take away your right to choose your own doctor, tell you what procedures and operations you can have, and what drugs you can have, it will eventually have rationing of all these things to cut costs. Another cost saving measure, found in the health care bill being forced through congress while much of America is on vacation, is some end of life counseling. No kidding.

After awhile see, you'll become a fiscal burden on Obamacare, so you'll be asked to give up your life for the common welfare. Get thee to a government run hospice. Section 1233 of the health care bill creates government-run "Advance Care Planning Consultation". On page 425, Congress would make it mandatory that every five years people in Medicare will have a required counseling session to advise ways for ending your life. Starting with people on Medicare, there will be "palliative care and hospice" mandatory counseling sessions. Of course that'll be grown to include all the elderly because eventually everyone except the wealthy and federal politicians will be on Obamacare.

From a part of a NY Times interview:

"Interviewer: And it’s going to be hard for people who don’t have the option of paying for it.

THE PRESIDENT: So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?

I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.

So how do you — how do we deal with it?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that’s part of what I suspect you’ll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now."

That group won't be independent, they will be Obamacare employees. Conversations? What conversations? Debate has been shut down in congress, and this legislation is being forced through by Pelosi (she's made schedule and procedural changes to limit debate) and her pals to be completed in six weeks.

Don't you just love it when the government takes away your choices and makes things mandatory?

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