The Diabolical Nature of the Healthcare Debate

Today I saw a TV ad from a breast cancer organization helping spread fear about health care reform. Mainly they warned that the US currently has good cancer care, but that the goofballs in Government are going to put restrictions on that.
The diabolical irony here is that--has everyone read their own private insurance plans??? Most people have cap limits, or a $$ when they are "maxed out". I personally know of a brain tumor patient simply booted out of their private health care plan. And guess who is picking up the tab for his chemo now?? Well big bad government, that's who (Medicaid/Medicare). The same system the "right" usually hates. But now the "right" is sooo worried about human life. Well only rich people's lives actually....

Sarah Palin is the Real Elitist

So Ms. Sarah feels good that she has exposed the bogeyman of healthcare reform--discussion about end of life and excessive medical procedures. True enough she smelled the rat of socialized medicine. BUT the big BUT is our American butts for one....we with our "free will" food choices have caused these insurmountable health care costs (heart disease, diabetes, etc.) that's where all those Medicare dollars are going folks like it or not.

Secondly--Sarah feels we all have rights to "life expanding" treatments, indefinitely??Well who pays for it now?? Often the taxpayer. And who will pay for it in the future, as these procedures get more complex and expensive??
Regular private insurance already practices the "death march"--but they do it in a less tacky way by calling it all financial--sorry dude, but you've maxed out. And this happens to many average Joes that get severely disabled or get "life expanding treatments" that go beyond their coverage. Then they fall back on to Medicaid. So the only ones in the end who can actually afford fancy technology and "life at all costs" are the republican elitists. The same folks that hate Medicaid & Medicare , the so called "entitlement programs" that actually keep people alive ....