10.19.2009 4:48 pm
Please don’t fiddle with my Medicare
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As a retired, senior citizen, I can only hope and pray that any health care reform bill passed by Congress will affect neither my Medicare insurance benefits, nor my Medicare supplemental policy. As one living on a fixed income, who depends upon Medicare and AARP to fully cover his doctor and hospital services, any such cuts in benefits, together with reduced payments to providers, could have a pernicious effect, not only from a health standpoint, but from a financial one, as well, as providers might cease accepting Medicare altogether, or quit accepting Medicare assignment.
Truth be told, I’m quite leery of President Obama’s promise that Medicare benefits will not be impacted, in light of his stating that two-thirds of the cost of his health care proposal will come from eliminating $500 billion in Medicare waste. To do so without cutting benefits and increasing out-of-pocket expenses seems like a real stretch.
Suffice to say, President Obama and Congress are walking a tightrope, and have their work cut out for them. They somehow have to achieve their goal of universal health care by incorporating sound fiscal policy, while at the same time, being careful not to cut benefits and increase costs to the detriment of the 40 million senior citizens who depend upon Medicare as their life’s blood.
Gene Carton
Olivette
Gene,
If this passes, kiss your medicare advantage plan good-bye! I’m sure our home town “murder by spreadsheet” person will elaborate more and tell you that you wiil be free to pay for it on your own. Best of luck to you!
The following quote from “The Messiah” says it all.
“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” — Barack Obama
We have now topped the hill and started down the other side. The speed at which he is trying to socialize this country shows how steep that hill is.
Our seniors have paid their dues to society by what, just living long enough? I’m sorry, Gene, but the Socialized, Commie, Single-payer system that you enjoy would have gone under the bus if you’d turn any of these wingnuts lose.
Now, I believe that you, Mr. Over65, deserve Medicare. But, how many of our young will go without medical treatment and die this flu season because their parents or they themselves cannot afford health insurance?
Gene, you’re asking us to have a heart and do no harm with your Medicare; do you have a heart for the youth of our country? Or, is it just all about you?
Gene,
–What they aren’t telling you about the Medicare cuts in “waste”, by their definition, the “waste” part is you…
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Robert Reich On Health Care: Old People Have to Die
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
October 9, 2009
Robert Reich, Clinton’s Secretary of Labor and avid Obama supporter, wants to deny health care to old folks. They’re too expensive. He also told an audience in 2007 that most people will not live longer than their parents. Again, too expensive. He wants to force medical technology corporations to stop developing new life-saving technology.
Reich, of course, supports the so-called “public option,” the government’s take-over of the health care industry. In order to push the Obamacare scam, Reich proposed a march on Washington by the liberals to demand the public option. He wanted to do this on Grandparents Day, September 13.
Reich wanted people to march in favor of a plan that would mandate old people die on a day set aside for old people. You can’t make this stuff up.
Mr. Reich’s pronouncement is yet another confirmation that the government wants to kill old people who are after all — according to our eugenicist rulers — nothing if not useless eaters.
Democrats and liberals went ballistic when Sarah Palin mentioned the fact that the government wants to use the “level of productivity in society” as the basis for determining access to medical care. This Darwinian and Malthusian concept is supported by Dr. Ezekial Emanuel, brother of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and White House health care policy adviser.
Emanuel does not use the term “death panels” and the term does not appear in the Obamacare bill. That would be political suicide. Instead he argues in favor of “The Complete Lives System,” a system that “produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated.”
In 1996, Emanuel said health care should be rationed for those who are not “participating citizens,” that is to say the old, the infirm, and those suffering from irreversible medical conditions.
As a good liberal, Emanuel would like to avoid the perception that he proposes killing old people simply because they are old — that would be “ageist” — and instead argues that they have used up their “life-years” and basically need to get out of the way and stop using up precious medical resources.
http://www.infowars.com/robert-reich-on-health-care-old-people-have-to-die/
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Jellio,
What are you saying? Kill off the older folks? I know you are not, but, Gene has a point. Are you not for Medicare Advantage? Ok if you are not, just wanna know why. That’s the one thing that actually works and seniors love it. The only way you make your case in your last statement is if you are for rationed care. That’s where the “death panel” stuff originates. And as people continue to say, here; there is no rationed health care being considered????
“Gene, you’re asking us to have a heart and do no harm with your Medicare; do you have a heart for the youth of our country? Or, is it just all about you?”
Ding ding ding ding, what is SCIP?
Correction
What is SCHIP?
I work at Wally World and all we get is catastrophic insurance. No REAL insurance. Wonder why. Wally has hundreds of thousands of employees and all we get is crap insurance.
Can’t afford REAL insurance on our pay scales.
We need something done. But Gov’t run? Don’t think so.
Mags
SCIP is the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals….
HK
Wrong, as being used in this thread. It stands for “State Children’s Health Insurance Program”.