Thursday, July 30, 2009

Sr citizens are "useless eaters who waste medical resources"

This is a blog comment on Obama's own website. Granted, anybody can say anything on blogs, but Obama's comments are monitored and numerous comments like this are scattered all over the blog. Follow this link to read the commentary. Other links are embedded in the quotation:
The Wall Street Journal reported (”Government Care’s Assault on Seniors,” July 23 2009) that Congressional legislation (H.R. 3200) will “reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.” This is consistent with material on Barack Obama’s own Web site, Barackobama.com. It is to be remembered that all contributions are vetted by the site’s moderators, and material with which Obama’s staff does not agree is deleted. Barack Obama’s Web site approved numerous postings to the effect that the country’s senior citizens–and we will all be senior citizens some day unless we die first–are useless eaters whose access to medical services should be severely curtailed to save money. Here is one of the more egregious entries, and we doubt that it was really posted by a 79 year old woman with health problems
    I am 79, on Medicare and have several medical problems. We need some transparency on this issue. I strongly support Health Care Reform, but measures that cut costs and cover most citizens will be very hard to sell, and so far Obama hasn’t much stomach for fights. We must have less choice for end-of-life patients, and probably a measure of rationing for everyone (”No, you can’t have that test” and to a clinic “No you can’t have that machine. Only three per state allowed.” I assume the various panels at work are looking at best practice in France, Germany, Norway, and others.

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