age , 81, would have definitely precluded the surgery under Obamacare.
She has had the same private policy for 40+ years... she will NOT be
able to keep it after this year if Obamacare is allowed to stand.
Everyone over a certain age will be dropped and have to go on Medicaid/
Medicare... I guess this is where Obamacare insures all those "new"
people. Under Obamacare she would die a drug addict.
On Mar 23, 9:33 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where's all the compassionate Moonbats now? Where is
> Lil'MarxistMoonbatTommyTomTomForNews not on this story, and why isn't he
> screaming from the rooftops about how evil ObamaCare is?
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Obamacare at two
>
> >http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/obamacare-at-two.php
>
> > Democrats observed the second anniversary of Obamacare in silence
> > yesterday. Obamacare must really be a problem for them, because they're
> > yakking nonstop about everything else with a lower than usual ratio of
> > veracity to baloney. Charles Krauthammer provides a reckoning in his weekly
> > column, reminding us of a a few basic and important facts about Obamacare.
> > Krauthammer concludes: "Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the
> > Leviathan state — grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and
> > arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness." With the regulations implementing the
> > law being written and promulgated every day, it's getting worse all the
> > time. The 2012 elections provide a possible cure. We are going to have to
> > rescue ourselves from this nightmare.
>
> > Rush Limbaugh performed a public service this week by turning attention
> > back to one of the great moments in Obama's promotion of his signature
> > achievement. Just about everything Obama ever said to promote the law was a
> > falsehood of the Big Lie variety, but during the ABC Townhall on June 23,
> > 2009 (transcript at the link), he blurted out something like the essence of
> > Obamacare. Citizen Jane humbly asked her president:
>
> > JANE STURM: My mother is now over 105. But at 100, the doctors said to
> > her, "I can't do anything more unless you have a pacemaker." I said, "Go
> > for it." She said, "Go for it." But the specialist said, "No, she's too
> > old."
>
> > But when the other specialist saw her and saw her joy of life, he said,
> > "I'm going for it." That was over five years ago. … Outside the medical
> > criteria for prolonging life for somebody who is elderly, is there any
> > consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of
> > living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?
>
> > In case you missed it back in 2009, here is how the president ruled:
>
> > OBAMA: I don't think that we can make judgments based on people's
> > "spirit." Uh, that'd be, uh, a pretty subjective decision to be making. I
> > think we have to have rules that say that we are gonna provide good quality
> > care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of
> > decisions that we're gonna have to make. But understand that those
> > decisions are already being made in one way or the other. If they're not
> > being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they're being made by private
> > insurers. At least we can let doctors, you know — and your mom know — that,
> > you know what, maybe this isn't gonna help. Maybe you're better off not
> > having the surgery but, uh, taking the painkiller.
>
> > Well, that's a little blunt. Rush nevertheless provided a useful
> > translation: "Hey, Mom, I just talked to the president. He said no on the
> > pacemaker. But I'm to tell you that you're probably better off not getting
> > the pacemaker. Here, just take the Percocet." He also concisely commented:
> > "I don't know, folks. This is not the country in which I grew up. It just
> > isn't."
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U-dQfb8WQvo
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