Posted on 04/07/2010 1:07:55 PM PDT by mlizzy
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Now that President Barack Obama has signed the pro-abortion health care bill into law, a supporter of his has admitted the rationing components in it. During an appearance on ABC's "This Week" Paul Krugman admits some of the concerns that pro-life groups pointed out during the debate.
Krugman claims accurately that the cost/benefit board established over private medicine by the new health care program will be able to impose more or less binding judgments refusing care.
He said these judgments will save a lot of money in the context of treating the elderly and people with disabilities and terminal illnesses.
Krugman also said panel will prevent treatment that isn't medically useful.
Wesley J. Smith, an author and attorney who is a bioethics watchdog, noticed the interview.
"No, the money won't be taken out of the hide of patients who want physiologically useless treatment, it will come at the lethal cost to patients whose treatment will be refused because it could work, based on the invidious judgment that the patients life is not worth the money to support," he said in response.
"In short, Krugman has admitted that contrary to the many mendacious denials by Obamacare supporters, the new regime will impose rationing," as happens in the UK, Smith added.
"This is akin to imposing a duty to die because when we reach a certain point in life, we will not be able to obtain treatment we want that could keep us going. Indeed, for me, this centralized federal control over what will and will not be provided in medicineand to whomis the biggest reason (among so many) why Obamacare is wrong," Smith commented.
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“the elderly”. they’ll start at 70, then pretty soon, 65, then 50, good luck kids.
Then the disabled, first the mentally, then the physically, then the ‘emotionally”, good luck kids
Just as the night follows the day, once abortion is accepted, euthanasia eventually will follow. GOD help us.
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do “these people” want a war?
Anyone who ever insisted otherwise was lying or stupid.
If a doctor charges 10000000000000 dollars to remove a tooth... some board somewhere is going to deny that...
does that make it a “death panel” ? well not in that scenario... but if a claim is denied on a treatment needed to keep someone alive.. then yes, theoretically they would be killing that person.
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Paul Krugman admits some of the concerns that pro-life groups pointed out during the debate. Krugman claims accurately that the cost/benefit board established over private medicine by the new health care program will be able to impose "more or less binding judgments" refusing care. He said these judgments will save "a lot of money" in the context of treating the elderly and people with disabilities and terminal illnesses.
Euthanasia has always been a core principal of the statist left. Look back to these movements in the 20’s and 30’s when such people supported the idea of sterilizing poor people to reduce their numbers. Today these idiots want to abort every baby that they can get thier demonic hands on to control the “overpopulation” of the earth.
You can imagine the “deer in the headlights” look I get from these mental midgets when I try to explain to them that only 5.5% of the land mass in the USA is developed for human habitation.
These people are dangerous becuase they are arrogant, ignorant and motivated.
If you're too old & sick to get out of bed and go vote -— Democrat, then there's no reason to live!!!!
Pull the plug, Jack!
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