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The AARP is supposed to protect seniors from hack politicians. For years, any time a Republican suggested a $5, 10, or $15 billion cut in Medicare the AARP would make sure that person was defeated.
President Obama demanded that Congress cut $500 billion from Medicare--and the AARP supported it. Now we know, as the AARP knew, that the cuts, and other decisions in Obamacare, command that rationing occur--for instance the older you are, the less likely government (not your doctor) will decide against you getting heart surgery, hip replacement or a pace maker.
Obama has chosen Dr. Donald Berwick to run the system. This is what Berwick has to say about rationing and the British health care system:
"I am romantic about the NHS. I love it." Dr Berwick says about probably the best-known case of socialized medicine -- Britain's National Health Service (NHS). "All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at healthcare in my own country," he says about a US health care system that is "bloated," runs in "the darkness of private enterprise," and has "tremendous excess capacity. Rationing -- Dr Berwick uses the "r" word himself -- is why he much prefers the "politically accountable" British system. About Britain's rationing board, The National Institute for Clinical Health Excellence (NICE), Dr Berwick says: "NICE is not just a national treasure; it is a global treasure"
How does Britain ration care? From the Real Clear Politics article, "In using "quality adjusted life years" per British pound to make treatment decisions, NICE mandates that Britain cannot afford to spend, except in unusual cases, more than $22,000 to extend a life 6 months. But despite its Orwellian acronym and properly polite British exterior, NICE harbors a deep bureaucratic aversion to extended care for the elderly and those with chronic disease, an approach which Dr. Berwick explicitly endorses." The Brits die in higher numbers from cancer, due to this policy. But, it does save money. The AARP and Obama have agreed to kill off $500 billion worth of Americans--many of them AARP members.
The only question now is going to be, who kills more people in a year? Planned Parenthood or the AARP/ObamaCare plan?
As Berwick would say, "Die you American elderly dog". Still proud to have voted for Obama?
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President Obama demanded that Congress cut $500 billion from Medicare--and the AARP supported it. Now we know, as the AARP knew, that the cuts, and other decisions in Obamacare, command that rationing occur--for instance the older you are, the less likely government (not your doctor) will decide against you getting heart surgery, hip replacement or a pace maker.
Obama has chosen Dr. Donald Berwick to run the system. This is what Berwick has to say about rationing and the British health care system:
"I am romantic about the NHS. I love it." Dr Berwick says about probably the best-known case of socialized medicine -- Britain's National Health Service (NHS). "All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at healthcare in my own country," he says about a US health care system that is "bloated," runs in "the darkness of private enterprise," and has "tremendous excess capacity. Rationing -- Dr Berwick uses the "r" word himself -- is why he much prefers the "politically accountable" British system. About Britain's rationing board, The National Institute for Clinical Health Excellence (NICE), Dr Berwick says: "NICE is not just a national treasure; it is a global treasure"
How does Britain ration care? From the Real Clear Politics article, "In using "quality adjusted life years" per British pound to make treatment decisions, NICE mandates that Britain cannot afford to spend, except in unusual cases, more than $22,000 to extend a life 6 months. But despite its Orwellian acronym and properly polite British exterior, NICE harbors a deep bureaucratic aversion to extended care for the elderly and those with chronic disease, an approach which Dr. Berwick explicitly endorses." The Brits die in higher numbers from cancer, due to this policy. But, it does save money. The AARP and Obama have agreed to kill off $500 billion worth of Americans--many of them AARP members.
The only question now is going to be, who kills more people in a year? Planned Parenthood or the AARP/ObamaCare plan?
As Berwick would say, "Die you American elderly dog". Still proud to have voted for Obama?
More...