During his so-called town hall meeting yesterday on his planned government take over of the health care system in America, Barack Obama described how we will pay for this massive nationalized venture. One great idea was to eliminate the Medicare Advantage program that allows seniors to electively add to their health care coverage through private companies, thus eliminating their choice and passing those savings along to families with no coverage.
But it’s okay! It’ll only hurt private health insurance companies and senior citizens! And we know those old people are too expensive, anyway.
(White House transcript)
OBAMA: We spend right now about — over the next 10 years, we will spend $177 billion — $177 billion over the next decade — in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies under something called Medicare Advantage.
Now, this does not make seniors healthier. People who are signed up for this private insurance subsidized program don’t get any better care than those who aren’t. The subsidies don’t go to the patients; they go to the insurance companies.
Now, think if we took that $177 billion and helped families so that they could have insurance, and that we could have preventive care.
“Now just think”….. if we eliminated the millions of crippled people in our society how much money we’d save and we could give it to people who deserve it! Smart money, indeed, Mr. President.
Think I’m being melodramatic? Look what Comrade Obama had to say to the New York Times in April:
NYT: And it’s going to be hard for people who don’t have the option of paying for it.
OBAMA : So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?
I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.
NYT: So how do you — how do we deal with it?
OBAMA: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists.
Hmmm, doctors, scientists and ethicists…. all of whom are above Obama’s pay grade on the subject. Comrade Obama chooses his words carefully. Don’t be fooled; he’s referring to the same outcome in which he said knowing whether life begins at conception in the context of abortion was above his pay grade, a convenient acquiescence that allows for an unethical, immoral practice that he believes keeps his hands free of guilt.
With the Obama plan, we can kill seniors and privatized competitive health care.
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