The stage was set in the very beginning. The
chief architect and advisor on Obamacare, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, stated and wrote
extensively that his position was that expensive medical care should be given
only to those "most productive to society". (By direct inference, NOT seniors.)
President Obama, himself, on ABC News, made comments about not having
expensive surgery in favor of a painkiller. Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory
czar said that rationing is good public policy; and David Berwick Obama's
appointee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid called for treatment to
be denied according to "quality adjusted life years". In spite of whatever is
said or written to the contrary, de facto healthcare rationing for seniors
was designed right into the Affordable Care Act. The evidence is
overwhelming.
As if more proof was needed, part of the funding for Obamacare was to take
3/4 of a trillion dollars out of Medicare. Obviously this directly affects
seniors and the reimbursement rates given to doctors for Medicare patients. As a
result of the all the above the following is sure to happen and is very
predictable:
1) Soon seniors will receive a letter from their insurance carriers of
their supplemental medical insurance. They will be dropped from their present
supplemental insurance and will be forced to go out and find new insurance to
supplement Medicare.
2) In the Obamacare pool of insurance carriers they will find that the
rates are very high, deductibles will be high and other costs, such as co-pay,
etc. may be added. It will be a huge financial jolt to seniors on a fixed
income.
3) There is a good chance that in going to the Obamacare pool of insurance
carriers that seniors will not be able to keep their present doctor. (It is
already happening with millions of younger people who have private insurance.)
This is when a VERY serious problem sets in for seniors.
4) When they attempt to find a new doctor, they will have great difficulty
since already many doctors are not accepting new Medicare patients. Why? The
Medicare reimbursement rates are so low that it becomes very difficult to
run their medical care business...they cannot financially survive! This will
affect not only seniors who are currently on Medicare, but those who will soon
reach an age where they will be. This will cause a major crisis since seniors
will not be able to even find a doctor to treat them!
5) The Federal government is already requiring doctors to ask Medicare
patients a series of questions in order to build a data base on senior patients.
These questions are really none of the government's business, yet the
information will be used in the future to allow a panel to determine if and what
medical treatment will be allowed to be given.
All of this is looming on the horizon for seniors...a major, major crisis.
This will happen to people who are now seniors or soon will be, that for all
their working lives paid into Medicare. We have Obamacare and both parties of
Congress to thank for this. We have in Washington essentially a Godless people who will determine what
groups of people are expendable. This is the type of thinking that existed in
Nazi Germany. No one would have ever imagined that this would happen in America.
Just in case anybody cares or is interested, the de facto
healthcare rationing against seniors that is designed right into Obamacare is a
direct violation of the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 that prohibits
discrimination
on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial
assistance. As already stated there is overwhelming evidence of rationing
against seniors built right into Obamacare.
The Obamacare crisis will surely hit seniors in 2014, it is just a matter
of time. It will be major.
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