ObamaCare and Senior Citizens

One of the most damning issues that has been studiously avoided by the Main Stream Media is the effect of the proposed health care reform on seniors. Some may accuse me of being over-sensitive to this issue because of my age and they might be right. Be that as it may, denying care to those who are no longer considered “productive” is a central element of the Democrat’s health care proposal for you can’t control costs unless you dictate on whom and how the money is to be spent.

The medical advisors to President Obama believe that those who can no longer produce, i.e., earn and pay taxes, should only be given pablum and real medical care should be reserved only for those that can continue to contribute to society. In other words, they believe in the long discredited science of eugenics that we thought we had destroyed along with Hitler’s Third Reich.

A strong comparison you say? A far reach? The bill, consisting of over 1,000 pages, is there for all to read if they can get a copy--the House has made that difficult--and the adherence to eugenics by White House Science czar John Holdren is factual. He co-authored a book on the subject and is still a proponent of bureaucrats, not doctors or family, dictating health care decisions.

So it appears that the “Change” that we were promised is one in which there will be no more “differently abled” on the streets. There will be no old people to be seen. Those with incurable diseases will disappear quietly into holding areas where they will be given drugs to ease their pain but not with an intent to heal. We will have a society with only beautiful, thin people walking around knowing that their existence is completely dependent on the whims of the government. They will be afraid to dissent for fear of landing on the "wrong list" and being denied health care.

The final straw? Congressmen, Senators, The President and the Vice President along with, I presume, the Cabinet and all the czars will not be under the program. They will keep their current health care system paid for by the productive citizens that are left.

The only “Hope” we have is that this abomination can be stopped and the authors sent packing in the next election.

To read the Wall Street Journal's Opinion on the matter, click on the title of this post.