Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts

Saturday, September 12, 2009

NHS: Baby Left To Die -- Born 48 Hours Too Soon


'I said "If he's born alive you have to help him," but the doctor just replied "No, we don't. He isn't a baby - until 22 weeks he's a foetus. So we don't have to help."

If you're still not convinced that socialized medicine lies on the road to hell, consider the case of Sarah Capewell, whose baby was left to die because he was born 48 hours too soon.

Like all mothers, Sarah Capewell will never forget the first minutes she spent with her newborn baby.

She told her tiny son how much she loved him, gently kissed his face and took photos of him wrapped in the pretty blanket she'd bought for his birth.

Then she held him tightly in her arms and watched helplessly as his body grew cold and he finally stopped breathing. Sarah pleaded for help from hospital staff from the moment he was born, but none came.

Jayden died when he was just two hours old.

No help came because although mother and baby were surrounded by nurses and empty incubators, doctors had already decided her son would not be saved - not based on observation and assessment, but because under current guidelines paediatricians treat only babies born after 22 weeks gestation.

And he was born 48 hours before that threshold.

One set of rules for all.

No free will.

No free choice.

The government decides. It rewards. It punishes. It uses your health, your very well-being, to threaten, to cajole, to steal more liberty from you.

Sarah Capewell knows.



Hat tip: Realistico99.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Why the Left is horrified at Joe Wilson's treatment of the President


After all, the National Socialist Democrats treated President Bush with such kid gloves.

Barack Obama, addressing his supporters: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."

Nancy Pelosi, addressing anti-GOP protesters: "I'm a fan of disrupters! ...So I thank all of you who have spoken out for your courage, your point of view. All of it. Your advocacy is very American and very important."

Harry Reid, commenting on his labeling of President Bush as "a liar", "a loser", and the "worst President ever":

GREGORY: Before you go, do you have any regrets about the way you have publicly battled with President Bush?

Over the years you’ve called him a liar, a loser, and you’ve described him as, quote, our worst president ever.

REID: I wrote a book and I said that in the book several times. David, I am who I am. I’m going to continue being who I am. I think you just have to call things the way you see them.

I really do believe that President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had. I think his efforts to destroy Social Security were very bad. That brought about one of those statements.

I think, as we’ve looked, now, at what’s happened to the stock market, wouldn’t that have been an awful thing to do, to privatize Social Security?

Medicare — he’s done his very best to destroy Medicare, Medicare, a wonderful program. Perfect? Of course not, but one of the best programs ever developed to take care of sick people, so...

Is there a word that means 'hypocrisy' -- only it's enough to make you puke?

Joe Wilson only said what 75% of the American people were thinking. And since the Democrats won't even meet with Republicans to discuss health care reform; since they reject tort reform; since they really do allow illegal immigrants to get free health care; since they lie repeatedly about improving care; since simple mathematics refutes the concept of adding tens of millions to the health care system while 'improving care', 'covering preexisting conditions' and 'not adding to the deficit'... well, there are about 200 million Americans who think that Obama is lying.

And the Democrats will be committing political suicide in 2010 if they try to ram this tyrannical, socialist fraud down the American people's throats.



Update: A must-listen in MP3 format.


Thursday, September 10, 2009

Smarter than a fifth grader?



"Our collective failure to meet this challenge - year after year, decade after decade - has led us to the breaking point."

But if we're at the 'breaking point, why doesn't ObamaCare start until 2013?


"There are now 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage."

For two years, you've said we had 46 million uninsured Americans... what happened to the other 16 million?


"And every day, 14,000 Americans lose their coverage."

Does that mean 15 million Americans will lose their health care before your government plan starts in 2013?


"We spend one and a half times more per person on health care than any other country, but we aren't any healthier for it."

Then why do people travel from every country in the world to get health care here in the U.S.?


"Put simply, our health care problem is our deficit problem. Nothing else even comes close."

Didn't the CBO and other economists say that the budget deficit will grow by between $250 billion and $2 trillion just in the next ten years?


"Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan."

If we can pay for "most" of health care reform by controlling waste and inefficiency, then why does a $900 billion health care plan include $820 billion in tax increases?


"...no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion."

They why did House Democrats defeat an amendment in committee what would have stopped federal funding of abortions?


"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits - either now or in the future."

So we're going to add '30 million' uninsured people to government health care, not cut benefits for anyone, not deny care to anyone, and it won't add a dime to our deficits?

"Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan...the plan I'm proposing will cost around $900 billion over the next 10 years..."

If there is so much "waste and inefficiency" in Medicare and Medicaid - two government-run health care plans - then won't further government involvement lead to even more "waste and inefficiency"?


"And I will continue to seek common ground in the weeks ahead. If you come to me with a serious set of proposals, I will be there to listen."

Then why won't you meet with House Republicans, who asked to meet four months ago?

 


Based upon: Common sense questions. Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.

Forget Joe Wilson: Barack Obama called Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin Liars Last Night


The AP reports that Joe Wilson violated Congressional decorum last night:

South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" after Obama had talked about illegal immigrants... it wasn't the only interruption during Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives. Earlier, Republicans laughed when Obama acknowledged that there are still significant details to be worked out before a health overhaul can be passed.

But Obama specifically called politicians like Sarah Palin, talk show hosts like Sean Hannity and radio pundits like Mark Levin liars:

Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens.

Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie plain and simple.

The New York Times calls Joe Wilson's outburst "a rare breach of protocol." One need only play the videotape of President Bush's 2005 State of the Union address to prove that statement untrue (hint: when Democrats shout at and boo the President during a speech, it's appropriate dissent).

More importantly, have the American people ever experienced a President who is this divisive, this bitterly partisan before? Spun so many painfully obviously lies in a major speech before?

This President is 'historic', alright. Just not for the reasons he'd hoped.



Update: Mark Levin sets the President straight. (MP3)

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Obama's Health Care Speech: A Furious Fusillade of Lies

Live-blogging President Obama's 'Hail Mary' pass to try and save socialized medicine: the lies are coming so fast and so furious, I'm having a hard time keeping up. The most outrageous fabrications:

On the 'public option' (socialized medicine): "Despite all this, the insurance companies and their allies don't like this idea. They argue that these private companies can't fairly compete with the government. And they'd be right if taxpayers were subsidizing this public insurance option. But they won't be. I have insisted that like any private insurance company, the public insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects. But by avoiding some of the overhead that gets eaten up at private companies by profits, excessive administrative costs and executive salaries, it could provide a good deal for consumers."

Lie: The federal government already bankrupted Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Post Office, the nationalized auto companies, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHA, the FDIC, Amtrak and the like. Trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars in the red. Debts that must be paid by our children and grandchildren, born into the world owing tens of thousands of dollars to a collectivist, Utopian vision that can never be realized.

On how to pay for socialized medicine: "Here's what you need to know. First, I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period. And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize."

Lie: Every serious analysis, including those performed by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, describes adding two trillion more dollars to the deficit to pay for this debacle. We don't have the money. How in the hell can anyone believe that we'll add "47 million uninsureds" to the pool while not adding costs? It's nonsensical.

On not slashing Medicare: "In fact, I want to speak directly to America's seniors for a moment, because Medicare is another issue that's been subjected to demagoguery and distortion during the course of this debate... More than four decades ago, this nation stood up for the principle that after a lifetime of hard work, our seniors should not be left to struggle with a pile of medical bills in their later years. That is how Medicare was born. And it remains a sacred trust that must be passed down from one generation to the next. That is why not a dollar of the Medicare trust fund will be used to pay for this plan."

Lie: News articles describe one-half trillion dollars in Medicare cuts: "The health care bill making its way through the House would save an estimated $500 billion in Medicare over the next 10 years."

On Covering Illegal Immigrants: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."

Lie: Reuters reports otherwise: "While the bill states that illegal immigrants are not eligible for the new taxpayer-funded affordability credits, there is nothing in the bill to enforce this provision. Congress defeated efforts to require the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. More than 70 other programs of this kind use SAVE.


Obama's masterful speechifying is overshadowed by his radical ideology; the resulting fabrications would be humorous were the stakes not so high.



Update: Dan Riehl was live-blogging using only pithy one-liners.

Politics of Fear: Pass ObamaCare Now or Americans Will Die!


The lies continue unabated, each one more brazen than the last.

Obama warns Americans will die without health reform

President Barack Obama warned Congress Wednesday that more Americans would die if it did not act now on health care, seizing the spotlight at a pivotal moment for his embattled reform drive.

After months of charges by conservatives that he was trying to impose a "socialized" state-run health system, which hammered his once sky-high approval ratings, Obama declared: "the time for bickering is over... More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most and more will die as a result."

Gee, I thought only conservatives peddled fear.

C'mon: pass the damn bill already, before grandpa gets whacked!


Monday, September 07, 2009

Democrats: we will lower health care costs by jacking them up


Tomorrow's edition of The Wall Street Journal reports that a compromise heath care overhaul bill is in the works.

Among the methods that Democrats intend to use to fund the plan: new taxes on existing insurance plans.

The committee needed to plug a $100 billion shortfall in the plan's budget over a decade, and Mr. Baucus assembled a combination of spending changes and revenue increases to make up for the gap, according to people familiar with the proposal. The main new item is an across-the-board fee placed on insurance companies that is estimated to raise tens of billions of dollars over the next decade...
 











For years, Barack Obama has pointed to rising health care costs as the rationale for a sweeping overhaul of the entire medical industry.

So the Democrats answer is to dramatically raise health care costs for the average American family that already has insurance by assessing new fees and penalties on insurance companies.

The insurance industry balked at the fee proposal. "New taxes on health-care coverage will only make coverage less affordable for families and small businesses," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's main trade group.

In short, Democrats will solve the problem of rising health care costs by making health care plans more expensive.

To call the Democrats' health care message incoherent is to give them far too much credit.

The sixties retreads that control the current Democrat leadership need to stop dropping acid for a couple of weeks so they can craft a message that actually sounds like one of their traditional lies.


Preview of Coming Attractions: Wisconsin Unemployment Hotline Drops 86% of Calls


Gee, grandma, I can't wait until the government controls the entire health care industry! The completely unionized staff will be soooo responsive!

Like in Wisconsin, where the unemployment phone line drops 86% of all calls.

The voices taunt thousands of Wisconsin's unemployed.


Here's what happens: Unemployed people call a hotline run by the Department of Workforce Development to check on their claims for unemployment benefits or to answer agency questions about their application.

The calm, recorded voice of a woman says: "To speak with the next available claims specialist, press 0."

But about 86% of the time, the caller is soon disconnected with a simple "Goodbye" from the calm, recorded voice of a man.

The callers still don't know why their unemployment checks haven't hit their bank account, and they can't ask a live person any questions...

Not to worry, though. Nothing can possibly go wrong with the plans of President Training Wheels to re-engineer a $3 trillion industry: after all, he's historic!

Pressing some buttons to help kill ObamaCare


Jasmine writes:

CALL THE 10 SENATORS LISTED BELOW: Your PHONE CALLS to Kill Obamacare socialized medicine have been very effective and the tide is definitely turning our way! Talking points are:

1) NO more socialism
2) NO government health co-ops
3) NO rationing
4) NO mandates
5) NO government bureaucrats making life and death health decisions
6) YES to keep private insurance.

Tell them to KILL Obamacare before it kills you or family members with health care rationing. We just need to KEEP making PHONE CALLS!. Most of these are conservative Democrats in red states:

Sen. Jon Tester (MT) 202-224-2644
Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) 202-224-5344
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (AR) 202-224-4843
Sen. Mark Pryor (AR) 202-224-2353
Sen. Kent Conrad (ND) 202-224-2043
Sen. Byron Dorgan (ND)202-224-2551
Sen. Ben Nelson (NE) 202-224-6551
Sen. Bill Nelson (FL) 202-224-5274
Sen. Mary Landrieu (LA) 202-224-5834
Sen. Max Baucus (MT) 202-224-2651

Have a great day and get those phone calls rocking!

Press some buttons and make your voice heard; as always, remain civil but firm. ObamaCare must go.

Friday, September 04, 2009

Democrat Health Care By The Numbers


0: The number of televised negotiations regarding health care, promised by candidate Obama on August 21, 2008: "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies -- they'll get a seat at the table, they just won't be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process."

13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers "because he couldn't find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist... [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain."

14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National Health Care patients in Britain wait between 18 and 52 weeks for treatment.

37: The "health care ranking" assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world's countries. This oft-quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S. Considering that no U.S. citizens travel to these countries when experiencing a life-threatening situation, it's worth questioning the methods by which the WHO arrived at these rankings. Their criteria included subjective and political assessments such as "Fairness in financial contribution". Suffice it to say that the WHO's rankings are clearly fraudulent and are designed to influence U.S. policy.

60: Average cancer survival rate (all types) for patients in the United States. Canada's survival rate is significantly lower at 55%, while Europe's is a dismal 48%.

81: Average percentage of those who survive a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States versus 43% in Britain under their National Health Service.

90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system.

750: The estimated number of people waiting in line (in the pouring rain) at Britain's Bury Office attempting to register for dental care.

2050: By this year, "Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (health care for the poor) will consume nearly the entire federal budget." And by 2082, Medicare spending alone will consume the entire federal budget. This trajectory is, quite obviously, unsustainable for our children and our grandchildren. Congress is bequeathing our descendents a bankrupt health care system -- for just the third of the medical system that the government already runs!

10,000: Number of Canadian breast cancer patients to file a class action lawsuit against Quebec's hospitals because, on average, they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments.

280,392: The number of jobs that employers would shed if government levied an employer mandate, requiring them to insure all employees. A 2007 study by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Helen Levy of the University of Michigan ("Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment") found that "0.2 percent of all full-time workers and 1.4 percent of uninsured full-time workers would lose their jobs if a health insurance mandate were written into law. Workers who would lose their jobs are disproportionately likely to be high school dropouts, minority, and female."

443,849: The number of British patients of the National Healthcare Service (NHS) who waited four or more weeks for inpatient admittance into a hospital (Excel file) in May of 2009 (more than 75% of all patients).

1,500,000: The number of Canadians who do not have -- and cannot find -- a general practitioner/primary care physician due to shortages in medical staff: "In Norwood, Ontario, 20/20 videotaped a town clerk pulling the names of the lucky winners out of a lottery box. The losers must wait to see a doctor... Shirley Healy, like many sick Canadians, came to America for surgery. Her doctor in British Columbia told her she had only a few weeks to live because a blocked artery kept her from digesting food. Yet Canadian officials called her surgery 'elective.' ...'The only thing elective about this surgery was I elected to live,' she said."

12,000,000: number of illegal immigrants who would qualify for free health care and -- in all likelihood -- additional health care rights for relatives under the Democrats' universal health care plan, according to a reported statement by the office of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and spokespeople for the racial separatist group La Raza.

$311,000,000 ($311 million): The amount of additional funding requested last month by the Obama administration simply to combat Medicare fraud. Medicare fraud is estimated at $60 billion annually.

$3,600,000,000 ($3.6 billion): The amount of added malpractice insurance costs to the current health care system instigated by an out-of-control trial lawyer lobby that donates heavily to Democrat causes.

$10,000,000,000 ($10 billion): The estimated amount of Medicaid fraud, based upon FBI estimates. Criminal practices include billing for nonexistent, overstated, or unnecessary services, kickbacks to patients, inflated costs, etc.

$60,000,000,000 ($60 billion): The estimated annual amount of Medicare fraud, due to widespread criminal operations that victimize taxpayers and specialize in dead doctors, fake patients, non-existent treatments and the like.

$107,000,000,000,000 ($107 trillion): The estimated shortfall of the Medicare and Social Security programs, which are utterly and completely bankrupt; they can be legitimately called an "enormous version of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme".

Canada and England don't pay as high a price for their health care because they freeload on American innovation. If we utilized their systems, Americans might worry less about paying for health care, but we'd get 2009-level care and long lines. Those are the immutable laws of supply and demand. Government monopolies don't innovate. Only the free market innovates.

Furthermore, government bureaucrats already raped the Social Security Trust Fund -- there is no trust fund. They raped the Medicare Trust Fund -- there's nothing left. They raped the Highway Trust Fund -- it's empty. I could go down a long list of things the government said it would do, but hasn't done. Because the big government statists are liars. They even moved these massive expenditures "off the books" to conceal the damage they've done.

And now the Democrat Party, the union bosses and the trial lawyers are launching the most massive attack on the American people in the history of government.

They promise health care for everyone, but they will not -- and they can't possibly -- deliver it. The numbers don't lie.


References: Sick in America: 'Free' Is Good? (ABC News), There's no such thing as free health care (Reason Magazine), Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2009 (National Center for Policy Analysis), Who is Debby Smith?, E.R. P.R., Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2009.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Report from Senator Sherrod Brown's 'Town Hall'


Correspondent JL writes:

Through a friend of a friend I received an invitation to the "town hall" meeting held by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH). It was held on Tuesday, 9/1.

My friend and I decided to go, even though it is an hour-plus drive to Cincinnati from Dayton (at rush hour) on a work day.

We had a variety of debates about clothing (Brook’s Brother’s, casual, jeans and polo-shirts?), signs, cameras.

The venue was the student union auditorium at the Univ. of Cincinnati. The event was to start at 10:30, opening at 9:30, and would last until 12:00.

We arrived, parked and walked to the building by 9:15. There were about 100 people standing in a line inside the building, but not yet inside the auditorium at that time.

Workers, I suspect student volunteers, were collecting “sign-ins” seemingly designed for campaign contributions, but perhaps for verification of attendees, or other purposes.

State police were present, with security scanning arches, screening people on their way into the auditorium, which opened at 9:30. The auditorium was described as having seating for 800. At about 9:50 it was halfway full. There were a mix of people: union, identified through their uniform yellow polo shirts saying either USW or UFCW, “Contact Center for Justice Community Organizers”, street clothes, and others mostly older and white.

Signs were not permitted in the hall, but a few were passing out "Health Insurance Reform Now" stickers for attendees to put on their clothes once in the auditorium.

By 10:35, the hall was full and some 40+ were standing in the back, behind the five TV-type camera setups.

The people around me were mixed. Directly beside me were two CEO-Business Owners (a pizza chain restaurateur and a comedy-club owner). Both were talking about the reduction in employment they would have to make if the bill passed (these comments were made to me; they were never given the opportunity to speak to the group).

The first twenty-plus rows in front of me were taken up mostly by supporters of the bill – the uniformed union workers were all up there, as well as various academics, and a few "regular folk." A rotating slide show was pitching the benefits, myths and facts about the proposed health care bill.

Behind me were forty plus rows of mostly anti current bill, tea partiers, and older folk – mostly against. There were three or four rows of "DMZ", which is where I was.

At 10:35 things kicked off. Sherrod Brown, five panelists and an emcee took the stage. The agenda: a few opening comments, then Sherrod, and each of the panelists were to have five minutes of comments followed by an hour of Q&A.

Things started civil enough, although when the CEO of the local children’s hospital went past his five minutes, and into his tenth, the crowd started raising watches, and then clapping (as if his talk had concluded)... and then finally calling for his halt. This was the first major sign of impatience.

All of the panelists were loaded to sell the proposals. All of the slides were selling, yet Sherrod’s remarks supposedly solicited input from all of us with his stated intention to bring our message back to Washington. Most of us noticed the difference between those messages.

By the time Sherrod and his panelists had run out the clock, we had time for only nine questions. The drawing of names appeared even-handed, yet somehow, only two of the nine were anti-socialized medicine while the crowd (stacked though it was) was more 50-50. Anyway, the two were articulate and on-point. I don’t have transcripts, but they brought the house to their feet. To be fair, the three or four that made their points on the other side, brought the other half of the house to their feet.

The two CEOs beside me had given up by this point and had left. Their comments: this is a waste of time, nobody is going to listen. I think at least one of them had decided to reduce their employment (from 540 to 285).

I have videos of a few of the moments as well, but am not sending them in this email as they are quite large files and I do not have the know-how, or perhaps the tools to reduce them from their hi-res to more reasonably transmittable form. If you wish I can email them as well. One is 19M, the other 6M.

Attached are reduced resolution photos. I draw your attention to the slide that says our health care expenses are going to exceed out annual income. Does no-one understand economics (or household budgeting)?

Regards, JL

I've got a new animal for "The Endangered Species List": Blue Dog Democrats. That includes you, Steve Driehaus (D-OH) and you, Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

Here's some career counseling: or, more properly, end-of-career counseling: start scheduling some outplacement services, because we are kicking your butts out of office at the next available opportunity.


Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Obama slashes Medicare in 2010 for Heart, Cancer Docs -- Media Silent


You didn't read this in your local paper, but 2010 could be a catastrophic year for elderly heart and cancer patients. Bloomberg News reports that President Obama has proposed cutting $1.4 billion in Medicare payments to heart and cancer specialists.

An Obama administration plan to cut Medicare payments to heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year is generating a backlash that’s undermining the president’s health-care overhaul.

...The proposal by Medicare, the government insurer for the elderly and disabled, is an effort by Obama to focus U.S. medicine on preventive care.

...The cuts could have the unintended consequence of rationing care, especially in rural regions with a large number of Medicare patients, doctors said...

Some oncologists in rural areas may stop offering chemotherapy in the office, forcing patients to travel to more- distant hospitals...

Gee, grandpa, I sure hope President Obama's Politburo-style, central planning commission gets all of these delicate decisions right.

And while Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress try to ram a multi-trillion, socialized medicine program down the throats of the American people, the separate 2010 Medicare spending proposal has received almost no media attention. Announced July 1, it proposes to slash reimbursements to cardiologists and oncologists by more than 10% each.

Consider, for a moment, that the number of American senior citizens (65 and over) is soaring and medical specialists were already projected to be in short supply. In fact, the Census Bureau predicts that the number of seniors will more than double from 40.2 million in 2010 to 81.2 million in 2040.

These disastrous government policies are certain to hurt seniors.

It's a real pity that the mainstream media couldn't find time to cover this story, although I'm sure Ezekiel Emanuel is pleased.



Hat tip: Mark Levin. Linked by: Gateway Pundit and Hot Air. Thanks!