Obamacare - Devastating to Seniors and Illegal

During your entire work life you are subject to payroll deductions that go toward Medicare. Yet when retired and on Medicare you might find it extremely difficult to find a doctor that will take new Medicare patients. Why? According to the Congressional Budget Office nearly 3/4 of a trillion dollars will be taken out of Medicare in order to fund Obamacare. This is fact, not rumor or political conjecture. What this means is that the doctor reimbursement rate for Medicare patients will be substantially lower. Already, all across the country, many doctors are refusing new Medicare patients, since they have to run a business as well as provide medical care. The result for many seniors...you paid into Medicare all those years and now you may not be able to find a doctor to treat you! This is a direct consequence of Obamacare.

Obamacare was based upon premises as espoused by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a chief advisor to Obama on healthcare. He is on record saying that healthcare should be rationed in favor to those "most productive in society". This was a direct implication toward rationing of care for seniors, since they are not "most productive" at that point in their lives. Obama, himself, made comments (ABC News) about not having expensive surgery in favor of a painkiller, and having an "independent group" (not doctor / patient / family) decide what is necessary. He was referring to the review panels that are set up under Obamacare.

Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar wrote in a New York Times op-ed that healthcare rationing is both moral (he says) and good public policy. David Berwick, Obama's appointee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services called for treatment to be denied according to "quality adjusted life years". This is all much more than conjecture, it is specific proof that by design Obamacare calls for the federal government to decide who gets what treatment, and certain groups of people such as seniors will be denied if they are not considered "productive". All this is an irrefutable proof behind the design of Obamacare. Of course the Affordable Care Act does not come right out and say "rationing" but what it says is that it can reduce how much the government pays health care providers for services, reduce payments to hospitals with very high rates of re-admissions or recommend innovations that cut "wasteful spending". This amounts to de facto rationing that negatively affects seniors. The result is the same.

Not only is Obamacare designed to negatively affect seniors. It is illegal. The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 is a national law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance, which will certainly be the case with the Affordable Care Act. In addition to being a violation of The Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Obamacare is also a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution that provides protection against discrimination by federal and state governments. The 5th Amendment prohibits the federal government from depriving individuals of "life, liberty, or property" and for equal protection under the law. By depriving senior citizens the necessary care for life saving medical treatment and, for not providing equal protection, this becomes a clear violation of this Amendment, as well.

There are a multitude of major problems with Obamacare, but none greater than the devastating impact upon seniors. What kind of country have we become?