In a rare moment of candor, President Obama
explained to an audience how government-run healthcare would
work in America.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
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.
In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said
families need better information so they don't unthinkingly
approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence
shows is not necessarily going to improve care."
He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but
taking the painkiller."
Obama said he has personal familiarity with such a dilemma. His
grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was diagnosed with terminal cancer
and given less than nine months to live, he said.
She fell and broke her hip, "and the question was, does she get
hip replacement surgery, even though she was fragile enough
they were not sure how long she would last?" [...]
So, old people: screw you. In the future Uncle
Sam will put you on an ice floe and let you float away to your
heavenly reward. It gives new meaning to the Latin phrase "Dulce
et decorum est pro patria mori." (In English, How sweet and
glorious it is to die for one's country.)
Medical decisions should be made by patients, their families, and
their doctors, not by government bureaucrats, but that's
ObamaCare for you.
