Health Policy Professor Discusses The 'Cost-Benefit' Of Elderly Recieving Federal Healthcare

[nemo2392008]

My beloved baby boomers and older loved ones in my life need to know the death sentence they are facing with a government healthcare system. Whatever care you are getting now will be rationed to those of us who are more cost effective. No more choices permitted in the matter because a useful crisis like the bankrupt entitlement system will require it. Wake up! They are trying to put you to sleep forever and I don't want you to go.

[vllmer]

"comparative effectiveness" will come to mean rationing for more and more as the bills come due.

[rogersnowden]

When the government takes over your medical care, the own your body.

They own you. Plain and simple.

This is where "liberals" cease to be liberal and merge with fascism.

[Wombat66614]

amen !! If WE THE PEOPLE dont act soon, peacefully of course, we will have no hope to save this nation for our/my kids who deserve much better than this radical fascism that is rapidly overtaking our country!

[YankeeGlacier]

Yikes!

[putittogether]

Or the person could decide it would cost to much to their children and loved ones and make that decision for themselves. But socialist fascist like this jerk, what to make that decision for you

[DrunkenPublicness]

In order to close the entitlement gap in Social Security and Medicare, our economy would have to grow by double digits each year for the next 75 years.

Adding more entitlement programs is pure insanity.

[TAMARLANE]

We are insane.

We tax smoking to help health care for children.

We try to get people to quit smoking (penalizing children?)

After they quit smoking they live longer adding to the cost of social security and health care.

We are insane.

[DrunkenPublicness]

Are you suggesting that we hide the dangers of smoking from children and stick a carton of Camel straights in their stockings on Christmas?

[TAMARLANE]

Maybe it is YOU who are suggesting that I am suggesting that? Called circular logic I think.

[DrunkenPublicness]

It was called, a "joke", actually. It was my way of asking you to clarify your statement.

[NakedLadyMudFlap]

I don't care if you're left, right, up or down...this isn't going to work...it will be a disaster. Look at Fannie and Freddie...the gov essentially ran them and look what we got. Look at the VA hospital system...I'm a Vet and good luck getting much out of them. The people there could give a crap about the vets, a large percentage are just drawing their Gov check...they're sleep walking though their jobs. Trust me, this is gonna suck big time!

[eurogoldexchange]

Delivery system. That is no way to talk about people.

[Kiro123123123]

People really have to understand where "liberal" thought has traveled over the years. Killing people they consider useless or a problem is no problem for them anymore. It is one thing for them to have the power to talk stupid people into killing themselves for the good of the collective. It is another to give them centralized control to make government decisions on who lives and who dies and who gets treatment and who does not.

[rwspringsteadmd]

Hulda Clark wrote a book the cure for all diseases and got booted out of the Country. Pretty sick that she was exiled for having a cure for all diseases.

SICKO

[TAMARLANE]

Obama says he will close Guantanamo in ONE YEAR. He says that. He won't do it though.

He says he will fix the health care system in America. He says that. He won't do it though.

He says he is not socialist, LOL, as he nationalizes banks and businesses and socializes many aspects of America. He is a socialist. Socialism doesn't work. Get ready for a FERAL neighborhood wherever you live.

[TAMARLANE]

We are insane.

We tax smoking to help health care for children.

We try to get people to quit smoking (penalizing children?)

After they quit smoking they live longer adding to the cost of social security and health care.

We are insane.

[AnalMart]

So, if you are an old, fat, smoker who has paid into the system your whole life does that mean the govt. gives you a tax refund?

[Wilbur665]

So the cost of medical care is growing...that much less to spend on cocaine, sex toys and other bullshit. Let's all grow up, shall we?

[freetoseektruth]

Tom Daschle said it.

His design for socialised Healthcare was created with an emphasis on care for the very young, NOT the elderly.

I wonder if the elderly who VOTED for Obama understand that.

I don't think they even know!

[Ferndalien]

National Health care will mean that, after 65, any significant, or serious, illness such as cancer will only get you six months of palliative care in a hospice followed by euthanasia. Even if your prognosis after real treatment may be ten to twenty years.

Reducing health care costs always, always, come down to reducing treatment.

[SueGeo]

Don't get old or sick cause they want you to just die withour benefit of any care!! No to national health care!!