28th April 2009

Socialized Healthcare

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The Obama Administration wants to mimic the UK and Canada’s health care system. A system where you may wait up to 6 months for a medical procedure, and possibly die waiting. Google socialized medicine. With the government taking DNA samples from new born’s in hospitals, they have a database. Google hospitals baby dna collection. New technologies give health care providers a good idea how long someone will live.

It’s not a great leap to see how a long wait for a medical procedure could save money. Let’s take the example of the 85 year old ex auto worker that is still getting a pension from the tax payers. It would save some money to let him wither on the vine.

The government is not designed to produce money or wealth (unless you work for the government), so they won’t have the cash to serve everyone. So the healthcare provider sees the DNA charts and finds your baby will have some form of cancer and most probably will die at 55. They can give you the choice (or it may be mandatory) to kill your child in the womb, or let him work to his usefulness then deny healthcare at the end of his usefulness.

I don’t think this will be intentional, but will be the unintended consequences of socialism.

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  1. 1 On April 29th, 2009, PostalMed said:

    If you have noticed any of the discussion about the apparent construction of the Obama healthcare “reform”, as envisioned by the supposed-to-be HHS Secretary Tom Daschle, they wouldn’t need to resort to waiting lines. The Federal Health Board (a quasi-governmental agency like the Federal Reserve Board) would rank healthcare interventions on “effectiveness”, which would include cost-effectiveness, as determined by how many years you would benefit from the treatment.

    So if you’re 30 and have lymphoma, you might live another 30 or 40 years, so that would be cost effective. But if you’re 75 and you might only live another 5-10 years, then that wouldn’t be cost-effective — or allowed. You don’t need to be on a waiting list if there is no intention for you to be treated.

    Same goes if you have a lot of different medical problems at the same time. Or it you happen to be a premature infant. Or you have advanced emphysema. Or.. the list goes on and on, and eventually you are talking eugenics. You just won’t be worth the money it will take to try to keep you alive. So no one will be allowed to try. The eldery and the infirm will take it in the shorts.

    Unless of course you happen to be among the special few, the ruling elite.

    As a physician, I can tell you I didn’t sign up for this profession for someone else to tell me how to do my job. And a lot of other physicians feel the same way. We’re already talking about what else we can do once we lock the doors and take down the shingle. And note that right now we already have a doctor shortage. It’s about to get a lot worse.

    What bothers me the most, however, is this is going to be the healthcare system taking care of me when I become one of the elderly or the infirm…..

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