n the back-and-forth frenzy of debate concerning Barack Obama's proposals to dismantle our healthcare system in order to impose socialized medicine on a resistant public, one little fact is prone to be overlooked as we focus on the programs' mammoth costs and insurmountable problems.
That fact is the Obama-Democrat proposal to gradually de-fund Medicare.
In order to help pay for the 8 million or so uninsured citizens and 20 million or so illegal aliens who will benefit most from this draconian plan, Obama wishes to cut 50 billion dollars from Medicare--the single largest source of medical benefits for the nation's Senior Adults.
This is being proposed at the very time that the nation faces the retirement avalanche of 'the baby boomers,' who will comprise the single largest retirement block in U.S. history. How can the nation expect to pay for their retirement and Medicare when cuts are being proposed?
And that is precisely the point.
You can be assured that this cut of 50 billion to Medicare is only the first step.
The plan is to gradually phase out Medicare entirely, placing ALL of the nation's Seniors onto the rolls of the new multi-trillion dollar plan, where those who are deemed too old or sick to justify being given care are simply 'allowed to die.'
Inherent within that plan is to provide 'end of life counseling' for such persons in an attempt to convince them to stop being a burden on society by expecting continued top-notched healthcare. They should simply 'do their duty' and die.
The elderly and the severely ill will be placed in institutions or programs designed for 'the last year of life,' where instead of being given medical treatment that could improve and prolong both the quality and quantity of life, they are merely given 'comfort measures,' counting down the days when, at last, society can finally be rid of the 'parasites' who raise the costs of care for all citizens.A harsh assessment, you say? No more harsh, cold, and heartless than the demented minds who envision these components of a 'brave new world' that are conceived in the barbaric brains of 'medical ethicists and social engineers' who believe in centralized government control of all of life, from birth until death.
As more and more Seniors gradually get their Medicare benefits cut, more and more will be forced onto the roles of the government-run-and-provided healthcare reformation corporation, which will then make all ultimate medical decisions for you and your doctor. This corporation will serve as the final judge and jury. All decisions will be final, with no recourse but to accept whatever they are willing to dole out.
And if that means your death, then so be it. What else can you do, and where else can you go?
Let me be quite specific in my charge that I will level, here and now, against Obama, his administration, and Democrats on the Hill. This is a scheme to from top to bottom to rid society of its least productive members, although at one point they were the MOST productive. Instead of honoring these stalwarts of wisdom and fortitude in their elderly years, the 'powers that be' in government are now deciding that they are simply too great a burden on the economy.
What better way to pave the way for their grand scheme of a new economy with a low amount of 'overhead' for caring for the elderly than to implement a program that will have the net effect of weeding them out?
Socialized, government-run healthcare ALWAYS, I repeat, ALWAYS involves rationing. The nature and amount of healthcare you receive will be limited according to the nature of your life and illness. This is the ONLY way such a plan can be paid for by tax dollars once the capitalistic, free-market system of investment and profit is gone.
http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m7d19-Beware-the-Obama-defunding-of-medicare
