Thread: Obamacare: Eliminating Poor, Elderly’s Last Resort to Life

Once government becomes the only doctor in town, the very poor, elderly and indigent about whom the left claims to care so much will end up forsaken by the very system envisioned to save their lives.

Obamacare: Eliminating the Poor and Elderly’s Last Resort to Life and Health

By Warner Todd Huston
Friday, June 11, 2010

Many left-wingers complain that our healthcare system as it stands leaves out the poor, elderly, and those least able to care for themselves. They say that because of this inequity private medical care should be eliminated and government should take over that role in society. That way, they claim, all will be treated equally and everyone will get the same sort of care. Unfortunately for this left-winger’s utopian fantasy, once government becomes the only doctor in town, the very poor, elderly and indigent about whom the left claims to care so much will end up forsaken by the very system envisioned to save their lives.

Does that seem counter-intuitive to you? Do you believe that those least able to take care of themselves will benefit from a government take over of healthcare in America? If so, you’ve been taken in, you’ve swallowed the left’s fantastic claims hook, line, and sinker and they are playing you for a fool… a fool with pockets to be picked clean and power to be taken away from.

In fact, we are already seeing Democrats and Obamacare advocates warming up the hearse to cart off the dead bodies of the young, indigent and elderly that will pile up as a result of lack of access to heatlhcare forced upon them by Obamacare.

How can I say that? Let’s look at our current system, shall we. Today we have a private system with government as a last resort, a sort of back up plan for those that fall through the cracks. The system now is paid for in a multiplicity of ways. Individual payments, insurance companies, employee benefit plans, even taxes, sources abound for the ways in which American’s medical care is paid. But Medicaid and Medicare, not to mention Social Security, are all there to act as a safety net to catch those falling through the private system.

Whether that safety net is working at optimal or not, the question remains that if everyone is in the same federal medical net, where do the ones that fall outside go? Answer: the morgue.

And this final trip won’t be any accident or one forced by mere happenstance, either. It will be a federally mandated final journey kindly allotted to the indigent, the young and the elderly, all of whom will fall outside the net of those able to be taxed for the benefit of being allowed healthcare. All excluded by government bean counters.

And with all private medical care eliminated there will be no where else to turn for such people.

Sound absurd?

Let’s ask Florida Democrat Senate Candidate Maurice Ferré, shall we? Mr. Ferré is today telling elderly folks who he wants to vote for him that we waste too much money trying to keep them alive in their golden years. He says it’s “absurdâ€

Therein lies the problem - trust. It's gone - if we ever had it.

There are many good things that we could do if we had trust. A national data base on healthcare problems of individuals could be used to great advantage - some people cannot handle Rx - we could find alternatives for them that work - but the interests of Big Pharma added to the likelihood of the data being sold or stolen and used for discriminatory purposes makes that too dangerous.

If we had trust in our government placing the needs of the people first we know that there are motor designs that have been in use in other nations that drastically cut the need for oil.

I could go on and on.

But how can we rebuild trust? If we become super litigious would that help people to feel like they have a chance at restitution - restoration? Would it create an environment that would force government and business to put the interests of the people first - over profits and power?