feste37: > Perhaps you could tell me exactly where in > "Obamacare" it says that people in their > sixties are "too old" for multiple heart > bypass surgery. > According to Donald Berwick, who Obama just appointed to be the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, we are already rationing health care.
Obama's health care legislation won't change that - but the question is, how do we manage it? Donald Berwick advocates rationing health care for the masses. >From Steven Ertelt: Washington, DC - Like their counterparts in the Senate, House Democrats are refusing to hold a hearing on the recess appointment of rationing advocate Donald Berwick, whom President Barack Obama named to become the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services... 'House Democrats Refuse Hearing on Pro-Rationing Obama Czar Donald Berwick' By Steven Ertelt LifeNews, July 27, 2010 http://www.lifenews.com/bio3136.html BERWICK: We can make a sensible social decision and say, "Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit [new drug or medical intervention] is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds." We make those decisions all the time. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care -- the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly... Read more: 'Rethinking Comparative Effectiveness Research' Biotechnology Healthcare, June 2009 http://tinyurl.com/2bt3asv
