Betsy McCaughey's New York Post op-ed, 7/17/09. No need to read this if neither you nor your loved ones ever plan on getting sick, or old. *Updated to highlight this:
One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, p. 425-430). The sessions cover highly sensitive matters such as whether to receive antibiotics and "the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration."
This mandate invites abuse, and seniors could easily be pushed to refuse care. Do we really want government involved in such deeply personal issues?
Listen to McCaughey speaking to Mark Levin here. Highlights:
- Obama's promise that you can keep your current health plan if you like it "is a lie."
- You will not be allowed to make choices you can make now about seeing specialists.
- You are going to have to wait longer for care.
- The Goal is to limit your health care consumption.
- All the decisions about what will be covered and what plans will cost will be decided by a government bureaucracy.
- Half of the one to 1.5 trillion dollar cost will be paid with reductions in Medicare benefits.
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