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US News Exposes Murderous Intent of ObamaCare

June 11, 2009 (LPAC)—Writing in the June issue of US News and World Report, Bernadine Healy, MD, lays bare the murderous Nazi intent of the Obama plans, using the question of hospital readmissions, an issue singled out by Obama in his budget. There she laid out a plan to limit Medicare reimbursements if a patient is re-admitted within 30 days of discharge, "saving" $26 billion of "wasted money" over 10 years. Dennis Rivera of the Soros-linked SEIU union has been especially vocal on this point.

The real reason for the increasing rate of re-admissions is not that doctors are gaming the system to make money, but that the elderly are living longer with serious infirmities. A study of 2 million Medicare patients who were re-admitted to hospitals showed, number one, that "the patients are really, really sick," in Dr. Healy's words. Ninety percent of re-admissions in the first 30 days were emergencies, led by heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia, and psychotic breakdown.

"A sudden struggle for breath in someone with serious heart or lung disease can mean an acute deterioration that, left unattended, would lead to an imminent and needlessly cruel demise. It's a call that can only be made by the medical team caring for the patient. Checking the chart to see if the patient has been hospitalized for the same problem recently is routine; such an event indicates a more intractable condition and might even encourage re-admission. If that chart check instead results in a decision not to re-admit, because of fears of financial penalties or bad performance marks, we've created an ethical monster....

"If doctors and hospitals stop re-admitting these patients, what happens to them? One suggestion that's been knocked around, which sounds ghoulish the more you think about it, flicks at a better use of palliative care. But palliative or hospice care is not for those who are treatable. In fact, 93% of those 2 million Medicare re-admits were alive a year later — despite, or probably because of, having had two or more hospital re-admissions in the course of that year.

"So, before we start counting the savings, imagine what those treatment penalties would mean for your mom or dad, or grandma or gramps. They all started paying into Medicare when they were young and robust so it would be there for them when they grew old and sick. Do we change their social contract?"

What Healy is describing is the very process of thinking that led to Hitler's T4 program. Healy's title is, "When Healthcare Reform Hits Grandma."


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