The Senators, Congressmen, their families and their friends ARE SPECIAL.
They are to live and thrive. THEY ARE EXEMPT from the ruled class.
Posted on 07/27/2009 1:55:36 PM PDT by MindBender26
One of the key elements in helping Americans understand the danger of Obamacare to them and their families is personalize the risk it will pose to everyone individually, not just to society as a whole.
Democrats don’t want you to do that. They want the Great Unwashed to simply stare into the sunny skies of Hope and Change and believe that somehow the Anointed One will be there wipe their fevered brow, cast away their pain, and magically (unemployment and CBO figures notwithstanding,) make the world an Obamatopia. They want us all to believe that somehow, under the Anointed One’s plan, the lame will walk, the blind shall see, and the dead shall rise from their graves, if we all just click our heels strongly enough and proclaim “I Believe!”
But what effect would Obamacare have on Democrat families? All we have to do to know the answer to that uncomfortable question is to look at America’s most prominent Democrat, the sainted Kennedys.
The answer is very simple; Ted Kennedy would be dead. He would have been dead months ago. He would have already been left alone, without disease-focused medical care, to die a painful death.
Ever since he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, there has been no doubt as to Kennedy’s eventual outcome. But, under our current medical system, everything possible has been done to try to save the Senators life. He was kept alive, through a number of crises, to continue his life on Earth. Under Obamacare, he would have been pushed aside, left to die, with little if any concern for his or his family’s wishes.
Why? It’s very simple. Kennedy is 77. Under national medical program such as Obama advocates, there are strict rules requiring cutting off medical care once certain ages are met. Your position in life has no effect on the outcome. Mother Theresa would have been dead long before she made her most valuable contributions to society.
In most cases under a national healthcare system, at age 65, your birthday presents include golf shirts, a few loud ties you would never wear, and the knowledge that as far as advanced medical care is concerned, fagetaboutit!
Not only that, but Kennedy is a poor risk patient regardless of his age. His decades of heavy drinking, his smoking, his previous rehabilitation from back injuries, all combine to make him a highly desirable candidate for the “shuffle off and die” portion of Obamacare.
I am not disabusing Hospice here. Hospice care is wonderful for those who want it. Fighting to the end is what others want. They see it in the same light as their opposition to abortion. They believe God gave us this one body and we should keep it alive, as his gift, as long as possible. As good as it is, the decision to use Hospice care, or to not use it, should be left up to the patient and their family, not some Washington bureaucrat.
Obamacare wants to kill that choice, just as it wants to kill off its old, “expensive” patients.
Make no mistake about it , just as Obama makes no apologies over this denial of care for Americans who have worked hard and paid taxes for Medicare all their life. This is rationed healthcare, abandoning the very neediest among us. Despite the fact that he was once a physically fit sailor, Teddy Kennedy is a prime example of the first to be thrown overboard
So the next time some liberal Democrat lauds Obamacare, ask them why they want to kill Teddy Kennedy.
Is this a sneaky way of being Pro Obamacare?
If Teddy were Ted Sixpack, maybe. In these 57 United States of Obama some animals are more equal than others. I’m sure provision would be made to ensure real health care for the elites has been/will be made
Only one catch— congress is exempting themselves from the plan.
(Why, I have no earthly idea. It’s such a wonderful plan— I’ve heard it’s to die for....)
No - It wouldn't have!! Obozo, his family - Congress, Senate are not going to have to be on this plan.. It's only for us peons!
The Senators, Congressmen, their families and their friends ARE SPECIAL.
They are to live and thrive. THEY ARE EXEMPT from the ruled class.
Whatever Obamacare will entail, it will never become applicable to the elites.
Maybe it’s not such a bad thing.
I now completely and irrevocably renounce the free enterprise system. ;)
Stop trying to pump sunshine about this plan.
Zer0Care at work
Sumbitch.
I guess every rose has it's thorn.
Actually the cancer would have killed him months ago if he weren’t so pickled.
“Kennedy is a poor risk patient regardless of his age. His decades of heavy drinking, his smoking”
Sounds like Obama in about 25-30 years. Of course he will be getting the best treatment in the world while others will be dying while waiting in line.
Not likely. Socialized medicine will have SpecialCare for politicians and the oligarchy. At the very worst they can go out as medical tourists to the best hospitals and physicians that will remain in the world- in India and Thailand, etc., and be taken care of royally , at least until there are no more useful antibiotics.
Of course guys, did you not hear Obambi in his national press conference saying that he and all of the politicians on the hill have “GREAT” health insurance, meaning their stuff will not ‘change’...
How ironic...
On a side note: Is it true that...if this passes...once it passes, if you change jobs, you are automatically put on the public health plan and not the plan your new employer has. I thought I read that somewhere.
Anyway....I’ve told my family (liberals, Obama apologists) and any other that I know, that’s the case. All the responses thus far have been shock and “na uh”, “no way”. Oh, they wanted health care for the uninsured, but never dreamed that THEY would be at risk of being enrolled in it. They want it there for others or in case they needed it, but otherwise, wanted no part of it.
If I can think of one individual that isn’t worth saving,it’s him.Throw his carcass to the buzzards for all I care.
This would be really good exercise.
Democrats are using Teddy as an emotional weapon for the bill.
Someone should research the precise language of the bill and compare what treatment Teddy (as an normal person, not a congressman) would receive under its provisions with the treatment and care he is actually getting.
I think it would make a killer article.
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