Posted on 11/05/2009 1:59:42 PM PST by William Tell 2
H.R. 3962, the Democrats’ health insurance reform bill, to be voted on this week by Congress, contains a provision to establish waiting lists as a mechanism to control costs.
Such waiting lists have long been a characteristic – and a bane – of socialized medicine.
Indeed, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled them illegal in June 2005.
"Access to a waiting list is not access to health care," wrote Canada’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin at the time.
Yet, this is exactly what the Democrats’ plan has in mind for Americans if their proposed bill becomes law.
Called the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D., Ca., unveiled it with great fanfare last week. The bill is sponsored by Rep. John Dingel, D., Mich., and is co-sponsored by Democratic representatives Charles Rangel, of New York, Henry Waxman, Fortney “Pete” Stark, Ca., and George Miller of California as well as representatives Frank Pallone and Robert Andrews of New Jersey. It is more than 1,900 pages long. But one need only turn to
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A cardiac patient in Canada is ten times more likely to die waiting than on the operating table.
A cardiac patient in Canada is ten times more likely to die waiting than on the operating table.
I found it humorous in an “it figures” kind of way
that the Canadian Supreme Court “outlawed” waiting lists.
I’m going to take a case to them to get them to outlaw gravity because I fall down too much.
“Pelosi’s Reform Bill Establishes Waiting List”
How could she, and I mean Pelosi, do this to her grown children AND to her grandchildren?
I think that is the plan. That you die while waiting.
Genius really b/c if you’re on a waiting list long enough then you won’t need health care.
Robert Kaufman, Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University in California, expressed a similar sentiment. He too believed that although this policy is limited to only this one specific group it will eventually apply to everyone.
“Rationing is the inevitable consequence of this monstrosity. There is no way that anyone can administer anything like this without waiting lists – de facto or otherwise,” he said. “Given the trajectory and logic of the Obama administration, it is a reasonable surmise to expect that this establishes waiting lists as a policy and that the burden proof is with the Obama administration to show it is not."
“The High Risk Pool Program is designed exactly for those uninsured individuals who health insurance reform proponents say are the neediest. Estimates are such people comprise one to two percent of the population. Jane Orient, M.D., Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), believes that if the government is willing to deny benefits to those who they purportedly consider the most deserving, then eventually waiting lists will be applied to everyone enrolled in the government’s plan.”
If the plan is to force everyone have insurance, then why is it also in the plan to deny benefits to anyone? They are creating this huge “health care plan” that won’t provide health care???
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The algorithm that will be employed to identify the recipients is left as an exercise...
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