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Elderly Gatekeepers
Fox News | 10/09/2009 | Self

Posted on 11/08/2009 7:09:00 AM PST by Mike Darancette

I just heard an anesthesiologist on FOX News say that the new Pelousy Health Care bill just passed contained a requirement that seniors will have gatekeepers that will control senior access to health care.


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Did anyone else hear this? Wouldn't this be age discrimination?
1 posted on 11/08/2009 7:09:01 AM PST by Mike Darancette
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To: Mike Darancette
NO - Death Panels . . You'll be getting yours when they seize your medical records, and prescribe their verdicts!!!
2 posted on 11/08/2009 7:12:27 AM PST by unojook
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To: Mike Darancette
You mean to tell me this is the FIRST you've heard of it?

They have to thin the herd somehow.

sw

3 posted on 11/08/2009 7:13:37 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife ) (O no you can't)
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To: Mike Darancette

Could it be that Obama and Pelosi lied? No, that couldn’t be, they wouldn’t lie, would they? Would they?

Well, it appears that they were lying, in fact, every word out of their mouths is a lie and they think the American people are too stupid to figure it out.


4 posted on 11/08/2009 7:14:26 AM PST by centurion316
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To: Mike Darancette

I guess AARP missed this part of the monstrosity. Oh, wait, they didn’t read it either. In the early summer, Pelosi proclaimed that ‘Americans over 55 use entirely too much of our health care resources’. Don’t bother to look for it, it has been scrubbed. My recollection is that it was on the Steffi Sunday Show. SHE won’t have to live under the rules the rest of us will be shackled by.


5 posted on 11/08/2009 7:14:34 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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So with everything else...In other words, someone who is considered elderly (like to see the chart on that idea) will have to basically be pre-screened, and ask permission to get medical care in this new reformed Healthcare system???

Way to go AARP...Should we just go ahead and give you the gun to shoot yourself in the foot with???

Great endorsement!!!

asshats...

You get what you voted for and endorse...hehehe


6 posted on 11/08/2009 7:14:56 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (Go ahead, call me a racist...One more time...)
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To: Mike Darancette

The elderly healthcare provided has been decided it is called let them die. That is how Dems treat the elderly. Do you wonder how they will treat conservatives? Probably use us for parts!!!


7 posted on 11/08/2009 7:15:13 AM PST by wbones8765 ("Give me liberty or give me death")
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To: Mike Darancette
The Gatekeeper

"Come; just walk through the gate."

8 posted on 11/08/2009 7:16:38 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Obama: Grasping at Straw Men _ Not a Public Option It's a government mandate.)
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To: Mike Darancette
I just heard an anesthesiologist on FOX News say that the new Pelousy Health Care bill just passed contained a requirement that seniors will have gatekeepers that will control senior access to health care.

From the glass is half full [or making lemonade from lemons] point of view, this is actually one of the benefits of having the bill pass [at this preliminary stage]: It puts the Democrats on record as to what they really believe, for all the world to see.

Obamacare is so evil that it makes "Midnight Basketball" look like a Bugs Bunny/Road Runner cartoon.

9 posted on 11/08/2009 7:21:15 AM PST by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
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To: Mike Darancette

To be honest, I have a couple of elderly relatives who are royal pains in the butt — plus they stopped sending me Christmas checks decades ago. Cut back on their meds and skip a few “unnecessary” procedures and who knows? We could save at least $20,000 in Social Security benefits alone and free up three nursing home beds.


10 posted on 11/08/2009 7:22:14 AM PST by kittykat77
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To: centurion316
Well, it appears that they were lying, in fact, every word out of their mouths is a lie and they think the American people are too stupid to figure it out.

Why do we think the American people are too stupid to figure it out? THEY ARE. At least 1/3 of Americans are the most ignorant asses this Country has ever seen and some of their sick were sent to Washington.

11 posted on 11/08/2009 7:22:48 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Mike Darancette
He's probably referring to the "medical home" concept in the bill. Best analogy I can give you is that seniors on medicare will have a "medical home" for primary care (similar to how HMOs work), with all speciality work requiring pre-approval by the medical home. It will slow care and put gov't officials in the drivers seat on oversight of care plans.

By the way, the plan also replaces MDs for hospice patients with PAs.

12 posted on 11/08/2009 7:26:56 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Mike Darancette

That means that all those old people born between 1945 to 1965 are in deep do do!! O bummer boomers!


13 posted on 11/08/2009 7:28:32 AM PST by timetostand (Defund the left!! Defund the Federal Beast!)
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To: stevie_d_64; originalbuckeye

Behind the AARP and AMA endorsements

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381435/posts?page=23#23


14 posted on 11/08/2009 7:29:50 AM PST by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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To: Mike Darancette

Well guess what...
1) They will have to revoke the Americans with disabilities act.
2) Fight one hell of a discrimination class action lawsuit.
3) Not being able to pay for it will not fly.
4) The are promising “health care for all”.
Now they better provide it.
Anyone that thinks this monster is going to survive the millions of court challenges is not paying attention.
5) Death Panels are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
6) Massive taxes and jail penalties will not stand.


15 posted on 11/08/2009 7:32:12 AM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: stevie_d_64

A.A.R.P. WHICH SIMPLY MEANS:

“ALL ABOUT REID & PELOSI”


16 posted on 11/08/2009 7:32:27 AM PST by unojook
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To: Mike Darancette

As I understand it, they will be chihuahuas with an overblown sense of importance.


17 posted on 11/08/2009 7:36:08 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: kittykat77

LOL!!


18 posted on 11/08/2009 7:36:08 AM PST by Since 2009-07-21
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To: Mike Darancette
Yes, I heard it...and while it may fall "technically" under the provision of "age discrimination"...it would and could never be proven.

Our only hope is that we can turn the Senate away from the cliff.

19 posted on 11/08/2009 7:36:37 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
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Yes, I heard that. I can’t wait to see how this all plays out. Isn’t it lovely?

AARP has always been ‘leftish’, that they support this ‘health care bill’ is no surprise.

But the AMA...it just knocks my socks off. Physicians I know personally have resigned their membership from the AMA.


20 posted on 11/08/2009 7:46:21 AM PST by Dudoight
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