Remember the Old Twilight Zone Episode called “To Serve Man”? In the episode, what was thought to be a benevolent race of beings came to earth with the mission “To Serve Man” One of the aliens left a large unreadable book with the same title. The book turned out to be a cookbook for preparing humans as food. The Obama Care bill in congress should be renamed “To Serve Man Health Care”
The promises being made by ObamaCare is that you can keep your doctor and your health care plan. The truth of the matter is you will be forced into into a managed care plan
As soon as anything changes in your contract such as a change in co-pays or deductibles, which many insurers change every year — you’ll have to move into a qualified plan instead (House bill, p. 16-17).
The bill gets worse when it come to senior care. It says that a non partisan board of qualified medical experts will decide what care is deemed necessary. One of the so called non partisan doctors will be Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Dr. Emanuel is a health policy advisor to President Obama and brother of Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel’s beliefs will impact all of us. Dr. Emanuel has some very radical views regarding the rationing of health care. Read Emanuel’s comments in a 2008 article in which he believes about how we should cut costs and why it will be difficult:
Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change.
Emanuel believes in the concept of “communitarian”, should guide decisions on who gets care. Emanuel says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia” (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. ‘96).
Translation: Don’t give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson’s or a child with cerebral palsy. He defends his discrimination against elderly patients with statements like this:
“Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years” (Lancet, Jan. 31).
Emanuel believes because a senoir was once 25 and productive, they had their opportunity. Now that they are elderly, weakening and not as productive to society they do not matter. Seniors call your representatives and tell them you want the medical care you deserve — the insurance you paid for your entire life!