Club Cobra - Better get sick now, not later

Better get sick now, not later

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...now-not-later/

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, health-policy adviser in the Office of Management and Budget, has chided Americans for the expense of their "being enamored with technology." Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, charges medical innovations as being responsible for fully two-thirds of the annual increase in health care spending. Their solution is to limit expensive innovations....

Also at the heart of Mr. Obama's plan is the restriction of services for older people, people 65 and older who...Alas, they still have higher health risks and costs than younger people. Thus, they are going to bear the brunt of the Obama administration's cost cuts, for 27 percent to 30 percent of Medicaid spending is spent for caring for people at the end of their lives...

In the stimulus legislation that the president signed Feb. 17, (is) funding for a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. "Comparative effectiveness research" is a term used by economists for making health comparisons based often on age and for limiting care based on a patient's age. In Great Britain, comparative-effectiveness research is used to deny patients treatment for age-related diseases such as heart disease and macular degeneration.
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medical innovations as being responsible for fully two-thirds of the annual increase in health care spending. Their solution is to limit expensive innovations....

Limit expensive innovations? Sounds like when you get old - just kiss your ass goodbye.....