28. One-Non-Payer Plan

Obama claims at various times to be in favor of a "one-payer" health insurance scheme [Video at Blog 25].  Actually, it is a one-non-payer scheme.

BO advisor on health ratoning Dr. Emanuel [EE] proposes a scheme based on an arbitrary graph (fancifully but accurately dubbed the Grim Reaper Curve).  This scheme rations health care based on age.

Grim Reaper Curve [Blog 24]

If you are lucky enough to be in the 15-40 age bracket, EE would award you "maximum" care -- which depends on how much money is "available".  Note that if the scheme goes broke (like every government project), you get nothing, even though you are in the favored age group of "socially useful" persons.

If you are in the 40-60 year age group,  your health care is "attenuated" (reduced) until at age 60, when you might really, really need it, you get practically nothing.

If you are so unlucky as to be beyond 60, the Grim Reaper Curve "attenuates" you to the category of "socially useless" persons who get Band-Aids, cough syrup, and Tylenol instead of real health care [Blog 1 and 2].  "Let them die", said Robert Reich [Blog 23], and EE's Grim Reaper Curve implements this thought.

Oh, yes, if you are disabled at any age, you are obviously socially worthless and worthy of no care whatsoever, according to EE and BO [Blog 1 and 2]. The same goes for young children [Blog 26].

"One-payer" government insurance will be run by "expert" death committees, who will "no-pay" for large segments of the population.

 Lemmings Rush For No-care
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27. Told You So

Betsy McCaughey blew the whistle on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Dr. Death), Obama's advidor on rationing nationalized health care [Blog 24].  She uncovered the infamous "Reaper Curve", which shows graphically how Dr. Death would have government death committees deny health care to old people and babies, in favor of the 15-40 age group.

Grim Reaper Curve [Blog 24]
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This is not just the mad doctor's nightmare dream.  It is in the Senate bill.

McCaughey has another article, in the New York Post
[ tinyurl.com/ygxs2c9 ] on how the Senate Obamacrats are planning to implement the Ezekiel Grim Reaper Curve.

According to McCaughey, Section 3003(b) (p. 683) of the Senate Finance committee (Baucus) bill "punishes doctors who land in the 90th percentile or above on what they provide for seniors on Medicare by withholding 5 percent of their compensation". That is, a fine for treating their patients.

Also, "The Senate Finance bill establishes a formula that penalizes hospitals for high 'Medicare spending per beneficiary' (Section 2001, p. 643)."  That is, a fine for providing hospital care.

Government controlled health care would require doctors to renounce their Hippocratic Oath to consider the patient's welfare first.  The Baucus bill would penalize ethical action and reward doctors who are subservient to government death committees.

Here we see the ethics of death-wopship (altruism) in all of its naked infamy, sacrificing some patients and doctors for the benefit of others, according to an arbitrary rule concocted by self-righteous "partners with God".

They cannot justify their actions in reason.  They can only impose their rules by force.

Motivational Poster
Caught In The Middle
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25. AARP Dilemma

The AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) tacitly (and not so tacitly) endorses Obama's "plan" to take over and nationalize health care.

This is not surprising, since they have always been a government "front". And like thier Leader, Obama, they don't like criticism.

Video: AARP Town Meeting Brawl

But there is an unintended consequence that the AARP might want to consider.

Obama's health rationing advisor, Dr. E. Emanuel ( Dr. Death) proposes to ration nationalized health care on the basis of age [Blog 24], by means of a chart popularly known as the Reaper Curve.  According to this scheme, persons in the age group of most AARP members would receive little or no health care, beyond the Obama-esque Band Aids, cough syrup, and Tylenol.

Reaper Curve [Blog 24]

As Obama's death committees , guided by the Reaper Curve, kill more and more old people, the membership of the AARP might decline, as the old people slip away into the Nirvana of pain-pill-induced dementia, after retiring to the Obama Killing Salons.

Not to worry.  The AARP can just redefine itself as the association for non-retired persons, AANRP.

Video: Glen Beck Interviews AARP Spokesman
Beck skirts issue of Reaper Curve

Video: Obama Lies To AARP

Video: Obama Lies About Single Payer

13. Lemming Doctors

Lemming Doctors Applaud Tyrant

The Fuehrer descended into the rose garden yesterday, to deliver another of his innumerable pitches for his fascist scheme for nationalizing the health industry.

He was surrounded by a bevy of -- count 'em -- 150 doctors (Obama supporters and contributors) flown in (at taxpayer expense) from everywhere to buttress his pitch.

The doctors were all wearing white coats (some supplied by the White House) so that viewers of the spectacle can know that these were doctors and not thugs from ACORN.

>>>   LATE NOTE. Here is a pic of a White House intern handing out white coats to those doctors who had ignored directions in the invitation to bring their own. Yes, it was a photo op by invitation only. [Pic from New York Post via Glen Beck.]



The media did not ask the doctors if they favored these provisions of the Obama socialist scheme:

--   Less compensation to doctors.

--   Less compensation to hospitals.

--   Burocratic control over hospital equipment.

--   Forced closing of hospitals to save money.

--   Burocratic control of what are "acceptable" treatments.

--   Death committees to deny treatment to save money.

--   Fewer new drugs and treatments.

--   Cancel the Hippocratic Oath.

--   Doctors responsible  to the government, not to the patient.

--   Treatment rationing by burocrats.

--   Mandatory insurance with fines and prison  sentences.

--   Patients age 15 to 40 get preferential access to treatment, at the expense of those younger or older, who get less treatment. [E. Emanuel's "Complete Lives System" (CLS)].

--   Pain pills instead of real treatments. [Blogs 1 and 2]

The assembled doctors enthusiastically applauded the Fuehrer, thus probably indicating their agreement with the above items, as well as the other features of Obama's plan to enslave them.

Would you prefer a doctor who supports the above-listed provisions of socialized ObamaCare, or would you prefer a real doctor, a doctor who looks after your interests, not the dictates of an all-powerful state.

Well, a poll found that 45% of doctors would consider retiring if ObamaCare is enacted. If the real doctors retire, you might not have the above choice.

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Lemmings Celebrate
Nationalized Medicine