Noted health-care expert and Kansan-in-exile Phill Kline finally chimed in "Obamacare" -- and oh, man. The analysis from Dr. Phill's bloggy bully pulpit (hey, we're peers now, Phill) begins with a quote from an order issued by Adolf Hitler.
"Authority (is hereby given for) certain physicians to be designated by name in such a manner that persons who, according to human judgment, are incurable can, upon a most careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness, be accorded a mercy death."
Yeah, it's going to be that type of column. Of course, Barack Obama's health-care plan is to kill grandma (get ready for the 2010 Nuremberg trials) -- or so Phill argues. It ends up being a bunch of New World Order babbling about "a global police force
for health care" because Obama's health-care plan "diminishes the individual, destroys liberty, thwarts the incentive
for innovation and advancement and almost always ends in violence: by
forcing the unwanted or burdensome to die or in revolution. The human
spirit does not suffer bondage well or long."
You know, because the current system is working so well for the 46 million uninsured Americans who aren't being diminished, or all of the folks whose liberty isn't being stripped by crushing medical bills. Yeah, you might be sick, but at least you've still got your individuality and liberty.
See, Phill is big enough to admit that health care is already being rationed. But it's "in the exercise of liberty," he writes.
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decide whether to seek a large deductible and lower premium or get a
top of the line health plan. When government pays the bill, such
rationing takes the form of coercion through the force of law and
therein is the rub. The "humanity" of the state replaces the humane
physician.
Tell it to Julie Pierce,
whose husband died of kidney cancer because her insurance company and
her employer (St. Joseph Medical Center) refused to pay for a
bone-marrow transplant. How humane.
Phill is really concerned with a government health-care option -- key word, option -- looking to "save costs" and "reduce burdens" and of course, this is all about waging old wars.
Welcome back to the mainstream conversation, Terri Schiavo deniers! And remember, be afraid. Black helicopters! Loud noises! Shouting!Counseling on food and water by government reimbursed experts is not needed -- if you have it you live, if not you die, painfully -- just ask Bobby Schindler who was forced to watch his sister die of thirst.
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This would never happen, not in a million years.
Well, considering that it has happened in the past, that might be a little too strong a statement.
Do you guys know anything about the history of your own country? Sure doesn't seem like it sometimes. It's not like you have to go to China - just go back a few years right here.
Allen, do you really think that liberals who believe in freedom of choice are going to be about sterilization? Your paranoid fantasies don't have villains that make sense.
Josh,
I suggest you check out China.
I believe they have a formal one kid per family law to control population growth. Although, I believe it as since been relaxed a little.
Remember, we in the US, have started GREEN policies that say if you have a kid you quadruple your carbon footprint. Bad for planet, no kids.
Never say never.
"When government says,"thou shalt have an hysterectomy or vascectomy to save the general population,""
And what the fuck, exactly, are you talking about?
This would never happen, not in a million years.
You are an idiot, Allen.
I went to the link for Phils post. Its blank except for the heading. Either its a glitch or those black choppers are about to land in the middle of Grand.
Mr. THC,
So you think that poor peoples' choice of low cost insurance vs the present NO insurance would limit the freedom of choice for every one else? You really think that insurance companies have our best interests in mind more so than the of the people, by the people government?
At least the government is a no profit system vs the $12.9B the insurance industry made in profit in 2007 and this was after going up 10x in ten years.
Mr. THC.
I meant that rationing happens due to the shear economic forces already in existence. If you are poor, regardless of how you pay for medical treatment, chances are you won't get the government to send you to Tibet for herbal cancer remedies. Both systems, private and public have rationing. It's generally called "class warfare in the medical industry." The poor die at a higher rate than the rich. It will only be more so, if the government insurance, which will be "cheaper" than private plans takes over. They would LEGALLY (ie government authority) be able to say they won't pay to keep you alive, or pay for "hopeful" treatment options.
Mr. THC.
I meant that rationing happens due to the shear economic forces already in existence. If you are poor, regardless of how you pay for medical treatment, chances are you won't get the government to send you to Tibet for herbal cancer remedies. Both systems, private and public have rationing. It's generally called "class warfare in the medical industry." The poor die at a higher rate than the rich. It will only be more so, if the government insurance, which will be "cheaper" than private plans takes over. They would LEGALLY (ie government authority) be able to say they won't pay to keep you alive, or pay for "hopeful" treatment options.
Allen, did you really jump right from the possibility of "rationing" to the extermination of the Jews? Let me put this delicately..... YOU CAN KEEP YOUR OWN GODDAM INSURANCE YOU FEAR MONGERING IDIOT!
He's right though. Rationing is happening with the current system, but the difference is you have a choice. When government says,"thou shalt have an hysterectomy or vascectomy to save the general population," you pretty much will have to do it. Lawyers, jail time etc tend to follow. Funny thing... Germany had these nice government-paid-for showers everyone had to use to clean the workers. Hmmmm.
I really try not to generalize people by the actions of a few, but, I'm sorry, I've lost all respect I had for Republicans.
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