Let's Kill Grammy

Mr. Kennedy Votes 'Aye'

Liberals Need To Admit That Socialized Medicine Means Letting Old People Die To Save Money

Where "letting" is too nice a word

My brain probably works like yours.  There's some stuff that's crystal clear, and other stuff that you have difficulty getting a handle on.  Often times it's stuff in the latter category that, once grasped,  have the most profound effect on you, like eleven year-old girls becoming 12 year-olds.   Government Health care is a category I for me however.  Almost from the moment Ted Kennedy celebrated his Medicare victory, by swigging a quart of  Cutty-Sark (the family owned brand), and sexually assaulting a few aides, I was stewing.   I intuitively knew (or maybe because I'd read Make Room! Make Room!) that once government gains control of  anything, that thing will grow out of control  In health care's case it was, and is, manifestly clear that the day must come when Teddy had to kill people who lived too long, having become a drain on the State. That day is today. And where's Teddy?  The jar holding his pickled, disease ridden brain is kept in the Senate cloak room. It's retrieved when Democrats need that 60th vote.  RWN will take it from here. “ Over the past week or so, I've noticed several liberal blogs trying to insinuate that it's some crazy conspiracy or myth that old people will be allowed to die to save money under the health care plan being considered in Congress. Just to be clear, that is EXACTLY what will happen -- and it's what happens right now in nations with socialized medicine around the globe. You may think waiting months to get life saving operations is a bug in socialized medicine, but to bureaucrats, it's a feature? Why? Because while people are waiting for the operation, some of them die, thereby saving the cost of the operation -- and it's ever so much easier for the politicians. Although they can -- and sometimes do -- say, "Sorry, but we're denying you this operation that will save your life," the easy way to do it is just to delay, delay, delay. Then, there wasn't some mean old bureaucrat denying somebody's sweet, old grandmother the operation she needed to live on, it was just how it played out. She needed to get the operation in a month, but the first open appointment was six months later. What a stroke of bad luck! Even Barack Obama has tacitly alluded to this on more than one occasion. Remember this? ”