Obama’s Plan For Health Care: Have The Government Decide Whether Or Not Your Life Is Worth Saving
That’s what this means:
President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don’t stand to gain from the extra care.
Maybe that sounds reasonable. Maybe we spend too much money trying to save lives that cannot be saved. But who do you want making that decision? Americans, their doctors and their private health care providers? Or the government, motivated by keeping its bloated entitlement budgets in line? And how long until we are forced to contact our members of Congress to try and get intervention should the nation’s health care bureaucrats rule that a given life isn’t worth the cost of a potential treatment?
Think that wouldn’t happen? It already happens with Medicare. And Medicaid.
How many times have you folks heard of miracle stories, where people on the verge of death were brought back some new or experimental procedure? Those stories are few and far between, I’ll admit, but they still happen. And often they result in doctors learning more about diseases and their treatment which they can use to save other people’s lives.
But that wouldn’t happen under a government system, because the government would probably rule that your life isn’t worth the cost of experimenting.
Give me our imperfect current system for health care, where I can get all the health care I can afford to buy even if I might not be able to afford to buy all I need, rather than a government health care system where bureaucrats decide how much health care I should get.
