Here Come Health Care Rationing

[Teresa Heilevang]

The photo op was too good to be true. Healthcare providers trooped out of the White House and trumpeted their goal of saving $1.7 trillion of costs over the next decade in health spending. Now these drug companies, hospitals, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, labor unions and doctors have laid out their plans in more detail.

And right there, in plain print, is the beginning of medical care rationing. Now that the cameras have been put away and the media is no longer watching, their secret emerges: They are going to cut medical costs by cutting medical care. Right now, they cite four targets. They plan to:

1. Cut diagnostic imaging tests like MRIs and CAT scans.

2. Reduce the use of antibiotics.

3. Perform fewer Caesarean sections.

4. Cut care for management of chronic back pain

These decisions will not be medical but financial. They will not be based on a doctor’s opinion of what his or her patient needs, but a bureaucrat’s and an accountant s opinion of what the new health care system can afford.

And you will not be able to bypass their rulings and pay for this care yourself. The rules laid down must be followed and private payments will not be permitted to override them. What we now call a private fee for service will metastasize into a bribe.

But this is just the very beginning of rationing. The total of health care spending now runs about $2.3 trillion a year in the United States. Over ten years, that’s likely to reach $30 trillion. So a cut of $1.7 trillion is a mere drop in the bucket.

More rationing is coming, and coming soon.

In our new book (coming out on June 23rd), "Catastrophe," we explain exactly what rationing will mean and what it has done to patient care in Canada.

It’s not a pretty picture and Obama will bring it here soon unless we stop him. Forewarned is forearmed!

http://www.newsmax.com/morris/dick_morris_health_care/2009/06/07/222524.html

[Kid Shelleen]

Here we go. Looks like Americans will be pouring over the Mexican border for quality health care.

[tt11758]

As someone with a potentially life-threatening chronic health issue, ObamaCare scares the hell out of me.  At what point will keeping me alive become too costly for the gubmint to justify?

[Hazcat]

As someone with a potentially life-threatening chronic health issue, ObamaCare scares the hell out of me.  At what point will keeping me alive become too costly for the gubmint to justify?

Taking your politics into consideration I bet they say "now". 

[Timothy]

As someone with a potentially life-threatening chronic health issue, ObamaCare scares the hell out of me.  At what point will keeping me alive become too costly for the gubmint to justify?

Ditto.....I'm a walking petri dish waiting for the Andromeda bacteria to take me.  One or two days of missed medication and I'm a dead man!

[Sponsor]

[Kid Shelleen]

Ditto.....I'm a walking petri dish waiting for the Andromeda bacteria to take me.  One or two days of missed medication and I'm a dead man!

Dang Tim and TT I hate to hear that, God Bless and take care. I'm also a member of your concerned ranks (Multiple autoimmune disorders).

[Timothy]

Dang Tim and TT I hate to hear that, God Bless and take care. I'm also a member of your concerned ranks (Multiple autoimmune disorders).

Back at ya Kid...mine is the result of "Mini-van wins battle with motorcycle" and doctors who don't wash their hands!

[Hazcat]

A Fight For Our Way of Life: Socialized Medicine vs. A Voice from Our Past

Watch this 7 min vid.  There is a suprise in it.

http://www.pjtv.com/video/Afterburner_/A_Fight_For_Our_Way_of_Life%3A_Socialized_Medicine_vs_A_Voice_from_Our_Past/2041/
 

[Kid Shelleen]

Back at ya Kid...mine is the result of "Mini-van wins battle with motorcycle" and doctors who don't wash their hands!

Sounds like a nasty MRSA infection. I hope you sued their butts off and won!!!

[Timothy]

Sounds like a nasty MRSA infection. I hope you sued their butts off and won!!!

Yes to MRSA and NO...nothing I could do about it.  They make sure you sign enough mumbo jumbo legaleeze BS to prevent you from suing!  In other words, "sh#t happens", you didn't die so have a nice day...!

I beat the original infection but have another that I'll fight the remainder of my days.