Obama's End-of-Life Health Care Boards

August 13, 2009 - 3:21pm — Jim Backlin

Recently, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin received huge doses of criticism from left-wingers regarding her comments that Obama's "death boards" were "evil" and would make life and death decisions about individuals such as her son Trig, who has Down's syndrome.  Even Rockefeller Republicans such as Fox News' anchor, Neil Cavuto, took her to task on his show yesterday by badgering a physician who was also concerned about such end-of-life boards.  Indeed, Cavuto almost succeeded in getting her to condemn Governor Palin's remarks.  

The problem for these Palin critics is that they have not read the statements of the key health care experts in the Obama administration who have said some truly frightful things or they have ignored such statements.  Obama, himself, told an audience to look at the people he surrounds himself with if they want to determine how he will govern or words to that effect.   

One of his top health care policy advisers, the brother of Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is the health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the Orwellian-named Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.   

Dr. Emanuel has said that doctors are basically going to have to forget about their Hippocratic Oath and consider the greater good, i.e. social justice, rather than what is good for their patients.  In other words, doctors in America are going to have to ration health care in order to be on the same page as Obama's "comparative effectiveness research" boards (or "death boards?")  

The former Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York, Betsy McCaughey, in a "New York Post" column on July 24, 2009 said that "Emanuel, however, believes that 'communitarianism' should guide decisions on who gets care. He 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)."   

So, is Governor Sarah Palin wrong in being alarmed about such possible "death boards"?  Obama, in an appearance on April 28, 2009, was concerned about all the money the old people are soaking up in health care costs, such as the fact that seniors take up to 80% of America's health care costs.  He falsely said that "We have the AARP on board," even though the AARP has not endorsed Obamacare, probably because they have been frightented by the overwhelming backlash of its members against Obamacare.  

No wonder the preponderance of citizens showing up at congressional town-hall meetings this month are senior citizens.  They have the same concerns as Governor Palin.  Only they are worried about the rationing which is destined for them if Barack Obama has his way in establishing universal socialized health care in this country. 

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Submitted by Leesa on August 23, 2009 - 6:35pm.

Excuse me, but we have "death panels" right now!  We have American Citizens who are told DAILY by their insurance companies that their lives are not worth saving.  Right now, we have American Citizens that are having their health care rationed EVERY DAY.  Most insurance now covers abortions!  Wake up!

Instead of going ballistic criticizing this plan (there are actually three bills), why are we not out there proposing a plan of our own?

Or is this just hate directed at Obama?

Come on, Christians!  Stop the hate - start solving!

My ideas:

  1. Require high risk pools, like they have for car insurance.
  2. If not high risk pools, then why not allow people who have been denied health insurance three times to BUY into the current plans the federal government has for their employees?
  3. Have the government plan only be a catastrophic coverage that covers people when they have reached their own insurance cap.
  4. To keep costs down, allow insurers to sell across state lines.  This way, too, people could choose to purchase insurance that does not cover abortions.
  5. Require health insurance companies to cover small businesses, regardless of the employees' pre-existing conditions or number of employees, setting up co-ops if necessary.
  6. Tort reform
  7. Rescind subsidies to the corn industry and use that money for health care.  If corn products were not so cheap, people would find fresh and healthy foods to be cheaper than the processed junk that causes diabetes and obesity.
  8. Propose a winfall tax on any health insurance company that makes unusual profits.
  9. What is YOUR suggestion?
Submitted by Leesa on August 23, 2009 - 1:31pm.

4george2,

I'm sorry, but 8 million people is way too many - especially when you know them.  If there was only one person's life it would be too many - especially if it was yours or your loved one.

My son (a registered Republican) can't get health insurance because of a very complicated pre-existing condition.  He is too old to be on our insurance.  He worked his first job part-time through college, while he was still on our insurance, a job he selected because they offered good benefits, and knowing that as soon as he graduated, he would go full-time and get insurance (not that it was a career he wanted).  Unfortunately, the month before he was to start benefits, his store closed, and they couldn't find one that would give him enough hours to qualify.  So he got another job, and worked the six months needed.  The day of his six-month anniversary, he went to HR to find out that they had put a freeze on new benefits the week before.

He is supposed to have an MRI every year because he has tumors on his optic nerves and on his brain stem that have a 25% chance of becoming malignant.  They are inoperable, so if they see any indication that they have transformed, they must start chemo and radiation immediately.  He now has gone 2 1/2 years since his last MRI.  He can't get a doctor to see him at any cost.  You can't walk into a clinic or emergency room and ask for an MRI.  I have the $1800 for the MRI, but he needs a doctor's prescription, and he can't find a doctor to write one.

Talk about "death panels"!  We the people have decided that health care is not a right, and that his life is not worth saving.  Trigg will get health care - his mother is Sarah Palin.  My son is probably going to die because his father and I aren't important, our Church isn't rich and doesn't have any doctors as members, and his life is worth less than a fetus.

No, I'm not for ObamaCare.  It wouldn't help my son anyway, because it won't be in effect until 2013.  He needs help now.  Unfortunately, because of all the hate for Obama, Christians have lost their compassion - because they are so afraid "their" money is going to help others.  That is not Christian.  It is not "their" money - it is provided by the Lord.

I have a blog, and I have asked repeatedly for Christians to come together with our own plan, but not one person has.  Why?  Because the Christian Coalition wants Obama to fail - it has nothing to do with health care, and it makes me sick.

I pray every day for all of you that you never have to go through what our family is going through.
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