Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan

As I wrote yesterday in my article, "The Scatigna Stimulus Act of 2009", I said the devil is in the details. Read this article in it's entirety. The government is attempting to take over health care without debate and without public scrutiny. Look what's buried in the stimulus bill. Older people should be very scared. This is why this is being rushed under the mantra of "If we don't move now there will be financial catastrophe". There will be no way to turn things back after this bill is approved, the path to socialism will be secured.-Lou

Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg)

....He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).

The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.

In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.

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