The Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics
The Reid bill duplicates the House bill provision that would effectively allow federal bureaucrats at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to bar senior citizens from adding their own money,if they choose,to the government contribution in order to get private-fee-for-service Medicare Advantage (MA) plans less likely to ration life-saving treatment.
Medicare—the government program that provides health insurance to older people in the United States—faces grave fiscal problems as the baby boom generation ages. Medicare is financed by payroll taxes,which means that those now working are paying for the health care of those now retired. As the baby boom generation moves from middle into old age,the proportion of the retired population will increase,while the proportion of the working population will decrease. The consequence is that the amount of money available for each Medicare beneficiary,when adjusted for health care inflation,will shrink.
Three alternatives exist.
In theory,taxes could be increased dramatically to make up the shortfall – an unlikely and politically difficult proposition. The second alternative—to put it bluntly but accurately—is rationing. Less money available per senior citizen would mean less treatment,including less of the treatments necessary to prevent death. For want of treatment,many people whose lives could have been saved by medical treatment would perish against their will. The third alternative is that,as the government contribution decreases,the shortfall could be made up by payments from older people themselves,so that their Medicare health insurance premium could voluntarily be financed partly by the government and partly from their own income and savings.
And my parents (in their 80's) wonder why I was so upset about this so-called healthcare "reform"bill being passed……May God help them as their health continues to deteriorate ;-(
Sil in CNY yes you are right they have death panels in this bill your Parents and myself will not be able to get care because obama wants us to die and he is going to see we do in fact he will assist us in dying
You know what? It`s pretty much us "white people"are going to die. We are the ones that have worked hard all our lives and contributed to SS and medicare. There is no money left to pay for Obama`s black people because they have not worked or contributed. They live off welfare and have sucked the life out of this country. Black folks don`t seem to understand they are en-slaving themselves. Government controll..
this individual and the mindless team of robots he has surrounded himself with will continue to destroy our United States until we the people say enough and band together to take our country back. it is not his country it is ours so please i beg you people let's get together and take our country out of the evil hands of these people. if your not willing to fight for our country then you deserve to see it destroyed.
Tom,you are right. We have to stand up and take our country back NOW. If we don't,they will come for us. Mark my word,they will come for us. This man is a Marxist communist. And so are his minions.
I agree with all of you. The American people do need to band together on this and that is what Glenn Beck has been telling us the past few months. I wish someone could organize and get get all the states to co-0perate but all of us can't afford to pay to go to Washington,DC and we can't afford to fax all senators and etc like some of the emails I receive ask for. So how do we band together? Any ideas?
In 2010,IMPEACH OBAMA
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What a bunch of kooks you all are!