Obama has no parents. Why do you think he has sympathy or respect for parents? He is a self made.
On Jul 16, 7:41 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > *http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124692973435303415.html* > > *Obama has his way with his health Plan, you can probably kiss your Parents > and Grandparents goodbye. > I read an interesting article in the WSJ dated July 7, 2009 titled “Of NICE > and Men”. It had some revealing information on “National Health > Insurance”. President Obama has been pushing this as his number one item – > perhaps even above healing our nation’s economic problems. Anyway, “BO” has > frequently used the United Kingdom as a prime example of what we should be > doing as their cost per capita is about one-half of ours. When UK went to > their system they attempted to cut costs through automating their system and > eliminating waste (sound familiar?). It did not work. Then they created > the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, acronym of NICE. > This board was created in the late 1990’s in an attempt to rein in and > control spiraling costs. It is basically a rationing board. It worked. > Here are only a few of the reasons why it worked: > · Two drugs, Lapatinib and Sutent, that prolong the life of breast and > stomach cancer patients were ruled, “not covered” because they were too > costly. > · Certain drugs, including Sutent, that help terminally ill kidney > cancer patients were also ruled, “not covered”. > · One drug to treat Macular Degeneration, Macugen, was ruled “not > covered” and a second drug, Lucentis, also used to treat MD was ruled to > have limited coverage, that is only 1 in 5 can have it and ONLY FOR ONE EYE. > Their thinking is apparently patients can still see with only one eye. > · A main drug used to treat Alzheimer’s, Aricept, was also ruled to > have “limited coverage”. No definition given on this one. > · Many surgical procedures are also “restrained’ – for back and other > problems. > · Steroid injections for back pain was also “restricted”. > · Fertility treatments also has “restrictions”. > · Young women, under 25, are not allowed to have pap smears – this was > followed by a surge in cervical cancer in young women. > · A mathematical formula is used to determine many treatments. > Translation: it is a cost benefit analysis. If you are old, have a chronic > or terminal illness you are probably in trouble. The formula measures how > much treatment costs versus how long you might live if treatment is > successful. As I see it, if you are old or terminal , it is “Tough Luck > Charlie, We Only Take the Best of Tuna”. The current cost cut off points are > 6 months and $22,000. Today, there are very few surgeries or treatments of > lingering illnesses that will fall within $22,000. > > Cancer survival rates in the UK are among the highest in the world. Five > year survival rates of cancer patients in the US are significantly higher > than in the UK. For example, breast cancer survival rates of US vs. UK are > 92% vs. 57%. The UK has been buried with lawsuits as a result of NICE. > > The article concludes that President Obama and the Democrats claim they can > extend medical coverage for tens of millions and cut costs at the same time. > It cannot be done. The inevitable result will be some version of NICE that > will tell tens of millions of Americans that they are too young, too old or > too sick to be worth paying to care for. > > As a side comment, the Obama medical plan assumes all of our health data > will be put on a computer system saving time and cost. Well my GP did this > and the last time I went in with a problem she went ballistic because my > records were neither current nor correct. I took our car in to the dealer > for servicing recently and they could not find my history. Turns out they > are on their third computer system in 2 years and cannot get any of them to > deliver accurate information. The LA Unified School System purchased a > computer system to cover paychecks. It has currently cost nearly three > times the original estimate and after three years, they have reduced issuing > duplicate checks and checks for erroneous amounts down to “a small > percentage”. What is a small percentage of three hundred and thirty five > million people? I could actually give other examples but the point is > clear. Computers are great – but they do have glitches and all of them are > operated by people. People make mistakes. I for one hope that the effort > for “nationalized health” does not succeed. * > > __,_._,___ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
