It isn't being called rationing since the president repeatedly pledged that would never happen under Obamacare but, pledge as they might, the Obamians are already busily engaged in restricting Americans' way to curative testing and treatment, aka rationing.
And, don't dare even whisper the term "death panels." Sarah Palin and others were widely ridiculed by the supervision for suggesting their existence since, we were promised, Obamacare would never join such a ghastly feature. Instead, they're called "ethics panels."
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Years before the sick person security and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in 2014, measures are being taken nationwide to cut costs and limit way to curative procedures which for decades were carefully thrifty and requisite for pathology and treatment of potentially life-threatening illnesses and diseases.
It's the old trick of boiling a frog adapted to medicine.
Those curious in boiling frogs know you should never throw the itsybitsy amphibians into pots of boiling water since they tend to jump out and spoil the fun. Likewise, politicians know they can't authentically throw grannie under a bus, pull the plug on gramp's respirator, or assign a cancer sick person to a death panel since grannie, gramps, and the cancer sick person are liable to kick them where it hurts.
You have to boil them moderately and use euphemisms as you do it.
Rationing began in earnest earlier this year when the Fda withdrew approval of Genentech's highly-effective but expensive breast cancer drug Avastin on the basis that it had "a marginal consequent on tumor growth in breast cancer and in light of Avastin's severe side effects, the risks outweigh the itsybitsy benefit."
The Fda didn't directly address that conception to the thousands of women whose lives have been extended by that "limited benefit" and who scoff at the alleged side effects and risks.
Life, for frogs and human beings, supersedes both the pleasures of boiling water and side effects despite cost savings.
As for mammograms, women only think they should get them annually but that's other misconception according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Usptf, which seems to have been assembled by the group of condition and Human Services less for the purpose of preventing than for rationing.
The task force of 16 "independent experts" accomplished in November, 2009 that it makes no sense for women to whether perform breast self-exams or get disposition mammograms before reaching the age of 50. Perhaps rescue your life is purposeless, and it costs money.
After the flak hit the fan and women adopted the frog coming to boiling water, Hhs Secretary Kathleen Sebellius backtracked and insisted the "experts" were merely recommending, not establishing procedure or determining coverage-and Republicans were absolute cads for suggesting otherwise.
Chalk one up for the women-folk.
Again only recommending, in October, 2011, the same task force reported that "Prostate-specific antigen-based screening results in small or no allowance in prostate cancer-specific mortality" despite findings by true independent studies showing such screenings sell out death rates by up to 90%.
Following that money-saving recommendation, the nation's largest urology group jumped all over the Usptf saying, "Because of early detection efforts, the death rate from prostate cancer has decreased 38% (from almost 40 per 100,000 men in 1992 to fewer than 25 per 100,000 in 2007)."
Don't confuse us with facts, retorted major condition insurers and government cohorts in crime, Aetna and Kaiser Permanente. Both companies swiftly issued statements indicating they are re-considering payments for the test based on the Usptf's announcement, umm, recommendation.
Chalk one up for rationing.
Cynics must wonder whether anyone at Hhs or Usptf has endured the agonies of breast or prostate cancer.
Finally, one unidentified brain surgeon contended he had reviewed Obamacare's plan for advanced neurosurgical care for patients over 70 and that it effectively consigned elders to funeral homes.
According to the surgeon, a very credible caller on Mark Levin's radio show, the "disturbing" as yet unpublished task as spelled out by Hhs included those euphemistic "ethics panels." Hhs has advised doctors that a sick person over 70 on government supported healthcare who visited an emergency room would be given "comfort care," palliative care, not treatment.
Almost as shocking but entirely explicable from the point of view of Hhs bureaucrats, patients aren't referred to as patients anymore. They're called "units" and rather than doctors determining the proper procedure for their care, "ethics panels" or "ethics committees" consisting not of physicians but hospital administrators will make that call.
Before treating a "unit," doctors are unbelievable to wait until pencil-pushing hospital administrators "meet and decide where the money would go for hospitals, and basically for patients [units] over 70 years of age, that advanced neurosurgical care was not commonly indicated," medical-speak for not treated.
Were one anonymous surgeon's sorry tale the sole evidence that rationing and death panels are not only planned but well under way for Americans, he could be dismissed as a cranky malcontent. Factor in banning Avastin and the Usptf's efforts to restrict mammograms and prostate cancer screenings and only the federal government could still say Obamacare doesn't percentage curative care and isn't establishing death panels.
Then, again, federal employees along with President Barack Hussein Obama who conceived of Obamacare, the Congress which passed it, and the bureaucrats who implement it aren't victims of Obamacare. They all are insured under the Federal Employees condition advantage Program.
Come on now! Advocates of socialized treatment aren't stupid! If they were frogs, they'd be the first to leap out of the boiling Obamacare pot, if they had to.
Obamacare Rationing Has Arrived: Live, or Die, With It
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