When I started this site I planned to provide information about retirement and vacations but since Obamacare, it has been focused more on politics than I like. Whether I like it or not, it is critical for those of us over 50 to be aware and prepared for the effects Obama’s policies will have on our lives. Unfortunately the facts are far different from what Obama promised and the compliant news media covers for him.
Our generation is a prime target for cost cuts under Obamacare and this means health care rationing. Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to take charge of Medicare and Medicaid Services is a warning of what is to come. Dr. Berwick is a huge fan of Britain’s National Health Service because of their aggressive rationing. He has stated “the decision is not whether or not we will ration care, the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”
Rationing will mean as we grow older, the government will decide on what care we receive based on cost effectiveness rather than medical need. In other words, as we grow old forget about the surgery and settled for a pain pill or possibly just do without.
The way Obama handled the Berwick appointment exposes his lack of respect for the Senate and the voters. It also shows us Obama’s true feelings regarding denial of health services under his program. If Berwick had faced Senate confirmation his radical views on rationing and wealth redistribution would have been exposed. Obama does not want us to realize what is coming before it is too late to change it.
Berwick also has stated that any just health care system must redistribute the wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate. So you’ll not only have your personal health care rationed by Dr. Berwick but you will be expected to surrender your wealth to provide the health care for others. You may have heard of “death panels” before but did you realize that you would also have to finance them?
Obama had to bypass Senate confirmation because Berwick’s radical socialist views are even too much for some Democrat Senators, Max Baucus for one. Obama doesn’t want it exposed how different Obamacare is from what he and the Democrats promised.
With Obama’s failure with the economy, refusal to secure our border, incompetence with the oil spill and misrepresentation of Obamacare, it is urgent that we do all we can with the November elections prevent his policies from being successful.
