Sunk – Is Killing Seniors Now Not Beyond Limits?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 8:39PM By Yomin Postelnik
Obama’s team of despots has turned a Stimulus Bill into a Kill the Elderly bill
This is despicable. And as a writer who prefers calm and reflective analysis, when such a course is possible, I’m shocked at having to write the above headline. But far more important than mannerism is the profound obligation of every citizen and active US resident to scream out against the despicable “healthcare” provisions in the “Stimulus” Bill.
The so-called “Stimulus Bill” has in it a provision to establish a “National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.” The Coordinator would primarily establish cost cutting guidelines that doctors would be bound to follow or face penalties determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Abysmal nature of Canada’s health care in general, seniors suffer the worst
England has also taken steps to destroy healthcare for the elderly and to concentrate all resources (which are extremely limited - being a government run bureaucratic nightmare that does not incentivize doctors) on the young and able. Those who’ve paid into the system for their entire lives are now viewed as useless burdens, not as human beings. In Canada, cuts to seniors are less pronounced. They are simply built into the system. The result: An average wait of 14 months for a hip operation. And that’s just a minor example. Despite the abysmal nature of Canada’s health care in general, seniors suffer the worst.
A lot of the health policies that somehow made their way into a package that’s purported to deal with “economic stimulus” were written with the advice of Tom Daschle (no, evil doesn’t just walk away). Daschle’s book on health care states that seniors should sacrifice advancements in care so that resources can be spent primarily on the young. The free market system that values and encourages advancements for young and old alike has no place in the heart of a man who, were it not for a matter of back taxes, would have fancied himself the Grinch Who Stole Healthcare.
It gets worse. Daschle goes on to say that those who have received what he terms “hopeless diagnoses” should just accept it. According to the man whose antics in the Senate earned him the distinction of being the only party leader to be voted out of that body since 1950, Americans should “forego experimental treatment” and adopt a more European attitude of acceptance.
That resilience in fighting disease has helped save the lives of many tens of thousands who’ve received dire prognoses from doctors is of no interest to Daschle. Nor is the fact that smart Europeans do not just give up. They seek alternative treatments, something that do in part because of the fact that their standard medical system is too inadequate to be relied upon.
Obama’s team of despots has turned a Stimulus Bill into a Kill the Elderly bill
And instead of using those views to gain acceptance to a mental institution of his choice, Tom Daschle wants them enacted as policy. We already know who was receptive to his views; some man who promised hope and change and who did not tell us that those involved killing seniors and the very ill.
Obama’s team of despots has turned a Stimulus Bill into a Kill the Elderly bill. And the Democrats in the Senate, including Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter and the two nitwits from Maine are too stupid or too reckless to put up a fuss. We, as citizens of the United States of America, can’t be. Our nation was founded on better morals than this.
The Democrats have declared war on the elderly. And they will suffer the shame of history as a result.
These are not compassionate people. These are not good people. These are despicable and outrageous beasts and the time has come to finally call them what they are.
Here America, here are the “leaders” you just elected. Cry and pray, but also take action. This nation was built on better stuff than that.
It’s a sad day when even columnists who’ve engaged “liberals” (henceforth to be called fascists) in dialogue and discussion, end up having to sound like Michael Savage, who, quite frankly, seems to be right about the uproar he’s been raising for years. But it would be an even sadder day if no one spoke up in outrage against this brutality.
To paraphrase Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the elderly, but I was not elderly, so I did not care.
Then they came for the disabled, but I was not disabled, so I did not care.
Then they came for the infirm, but I was not infirm, so I did not care.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to stand up.
I may be 31 years old, but as someone who served as a chaplain in hospitals and who’s worked with the elderly, I see the difference between the care given in this country and the abject neglect that is the hallmark of the system in other countries with government run and government rationed so-called “health care” that is anything but. We cannot bring that to America.
This is America. We fight back.
To readers: One message: ACT
- Call radio show hosts, especially Dr. Laura, who will likely mobilize her active listening audience of mothers, daughters and concerned listeners to act against this atrocity.
- Call your congressmen and senators and express your profound outrage at a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology whose system can be used to “penalize doctors who do not submit its cost cutting guidelines.”
- With regard to whoever is nominated to the position of “Health and Human” Services: Start a letter campaign to them as soon as he or she is nominated, to withdraw from consideration due to reprehensible acts that the Obama administration is seeking to perform in the area of “healthcare.” No reputable person should agree to head a department that under this plan would in effect be a Department of Killing the Elderly.
- Understand that the party of Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Scoop Jackson is no more. It’s been co-opted by the same radical lunatics whose German and Russian ideological cousins brought untold devastation to their countries and is supported by hapless fools who do not know enough to speak out even against this.
This is America. We don’t take kindly to destroying health care for the elderly. More to the point: We don’t take kindly to people proposing to kill the elderly. This is America. We fight back. So please, right now, speak up and act!
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Reader Comments (30)
One can only hope that before any major healthcare legislation passes the RINOs take time to think of their conservative roots. Perhaps even a few blue dog democrats will realize the immense problems with socializing medicine and join with the republicans in voting against it.
-W
http://bill84121.blogspot.com
Thank you for bringing this up. Since I began to see what was happening last summer I have been surfing for information about EU healthcare. I have been very surpirsed. People here seem to think it's a wonderful idea but EU news stories present a very different view. I read about a cartoon in a Dutch(?) newspaper showing an old woman cringing in fear about her son bringing a doctor to see her -- as she was expecting death -- I don't remember the punch line, but apparently it was familiar to the Dutch. I have read very interesting exchanges between posters re: the efficiacies and efficiencies of various EU systems. Not at all what is presented to us In our media. Americans don't have a clue how good we have it. And as one doctor wrote: Nobody here dies in the street without healthcare--we just don't have insurance.
Yours in Liberty
Bhoy
Well,I don't know about the rest of America but I have no intention of allowing the beltway donkeys in the President's administration to make ANY decisions about my personal medical care
I am 64 soon to be 65 and I'll trade a decent fitting set of dentures for a heart transplant any day. We "seniors" have to realize we WILL DIE, and accept that extraordinary and expensive medical procedures will not prolong our life but merely extend our suffering. I would rather have medicare pay for hearing aides and dentures than bypass surgery. We won't live forever - let's opt for life ENHANCING treatments as opposed to death postponing procedures that leave us as useless vegetables!
"weze"
That outlook of yours is very sad. First of all - a look of the treatments that would be cut are life enhancing and very few "prolong but leave people as vegetables" so your take on this is off the wall. Second, if you don't value your life then why should those who do be robbed of life saving techniques just because you don't value yours? Also, just a suggestion regarding your dentures - you can always get someone who seeks a heart transplant to pay for your dentures in exchange for a heart that clearly isn't being used. Most people consider 64 to be young. Those who don't seem to be anarchist hippies now known as the liberal elite. Perhaps....
they don’t want to pay social security at all, but they want us all to pay into it.
Funny and ironic, isn’t it?! The Democrats always try to scare seniors into voting for them and against Repubs with the whole club of “Republicans want to cut your benefits”....
Yet it is the RATs who are doing that very thing.
Yet AARP will still side with the DEMs next and every election just as they always do...
Funny and ironic, isn’t it?! The Democrats always try to scare seniors into voting for them and against Repubs with the whole club of “Republicans want to cut your benefits”....
Yet it is the RATs who are doing that very thing.
Yet AARP will still side with the DEMs next and every election just as they always do...
Well, soylent green ought to scare the old people enough
I’m wondering how the disabled would fare under Obama Care? Would some formula of usefulness dictate the level of treatment available to them. For example, Down Syndrome children frequently have heart defects which require surgery. Would they get it?
So that’s it? We sit back and accept it. This country isn’t worth living in any longer if that’s what it has come to.
To: FlingWingFlyer
Obama is doing EXACTLY what the leftist did in the UK to destroy the country. The UK or specifically England is probably technically bankrupt. They flooded the countries with illegals referred to as “asylum seekers” of which many were Muslims. Obama already signed that order. In both cases this is driven by Saudi money through the Muslim BRotherhood.
The benefits went to these illegals in housing, welfare, medical, education, endless other things AND JOBS. Freezing out the indigenous population.
They also started giving less to senious aka pensioners. They want these people to die because they will not be voters in 10 years. They also used the media to brainwash the population and demonized their political opponents.
The irony is dumb seniors voted for Obama because they used scare advertising to say McCain would kill them or cut social security. Fools.
To: caseinpoint
I believe that anyone who is judged to be a “burden” to the Socialist state will be exterminated. With “dignity” of course.
Obama promised more to seniors. *snicker*
Zero lied; Seniors died!
To: FlingWingFlyer
Killing seniors by denying them healthcare is how the DemocRATS intend to “fix” their beloved Social Security.
What kills me is they think this is a new idea, but because most Americans know nothing about history, unless there was a movie made about it and the story line revolves around two teenagers having sex, they don't recognize this plan from history.
Let me sum it up: First they limit and then cut off heath care for senors, then it ends with Jews, Gypsies and the mentally ill being put in ovens.
To: FlingWingFlyer; TigersEye
Sadly I think it is going to come to that.
as if currency devaluation wasn’t enough
To: caseinpoint
We need only look at the UK and Canada to see how rationed healthcare works
Just last week it was reported a 57 yr old UK man was denied a new hip replacement treatment because he was “too old”. He was also denied the right to seek private treatment on his own. He is appealing to the UN.
That kind of healthcare system will be ours before obama leaves office
To: txroadkill
remember this comparitive benefit board will apply to everyone, not just seniors
To: FlingWingFlyer
That is definitely where we are headed. We have created gods out of Mother Earth Gaia and/or The State so that whatever advances the best interests of that god is moral, and whatever impedes the best interests of our current god is immoral. People therefore are rated according to the benefit or burden placed upon the god.
To: FlingWingFlyer
>>I believe that anyone who is judged to be a “burden” to the Socialist state will be exterminated. With “dignity” of course.<<
Right on the mark.
Once no longer “productive” (tax payers), they become a “burden”.
To: silverleaf
Dang. In two weeks I turn 57. My warranty is gone. Making doctor’s appointment as I type.
I think that if the Obamacorns are going to start denying health care to people over 50, we should be allowed to start drawing Social Security at 30. At least we would be able to get some of the money back that we’ve been paying in all these years.
A classic Daschle quote from last March, before the bank bailout:
“In my book, Critical: What We Can Do About the American Health-Care Crisis, I have proposed a Federal Health Board that would be a foundation from which we could address all three poblems. In many ways, the Federal Health Board would resemble our current Federal Reserve Board for the banking industry. Just as the Federal Reserve ensures certain standards, transparency and performance for our banking industry, the Fed Health would ensure harmonization across public programs of health-care protocols, benefits, and transparency. “
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-tom-daschle/progressive-solutions-to-_b_89590.html
Well, Daschle and the HHS Secretary need to get on that phone and call Ginsburg and tell her, sorry, no meds, deal with your cancer, accept it and die, and then call Kennedy and tell him sorry, forget all that experimental cancer vaccine you’re having labs work on, just accept you’re gonna die and hurry up about it. Then we can work down to Michael Fox, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, etc etc etc. Let’s start at the top with this, shall we?/sarc
To: caseinpoint
yes, anyone over 40 better get a good health checkup ASAP while they still can get treatment of their doctor's choice for anything that turns up
within 6 months treatment decisions may be made by a giant HMO-type gatekeeper in Washington DC
If everyone likes the intelligence and efficiency of the TSA workers at our airports, they're gonna love the same kind of hires working as frontline medical treatment decisionmakers
There are ‘merely’ following through on their determination to forcefully reduce the world’s population to 200 million.
ALL “useless eaters” are to be terminated, dispensed with, wiped out, . . . killed.
Check out the
GEORGIA GUIDESTONES.
http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm
Just curious, do the senior citizens who vote Democrat because they’re afraid social security will be taken away, are they aware of this at all? Sorry, but I find this unbelievably amusing LOL.
To: TheBattman
Funny and ironic, isn’t it?! The Democrats always try to scare seniors into voting for them and against Repubs with the whole club of “Republicans want to cut your benefits”....
Yes, and on the flip side, you have the ghoulish "Pro-Life" crowd (not to be confused with truly good pro-life people) who say that individuals don't have a right to decide their own end of life care...and look where that takes us.
Only when we return to our Constitutional right to self determination will we be free of this.
I think I’ll call AARP tomorrow even though I’m not old enough for it, but I’ll call on behalf of my Mother.