It is impossible to overstate the impact Obamacare will have on this nation. The following article from the Mail Online should be a real wakeup call:
In Great Britain, where there is free government sponsored health care, a great new idea called the “Liverpool Care Pathway” was developed. Officially, this is a best practices guideline to be used in determining the care of dying patients. It was developed by Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Liverpool’s Marie Curie Hospice.
This is a program where dying patients are given happy pills, instead of curative treatment, to ease their passage into the next world painlessly; and, more importantly, quickly and cheaply. Liberals say this is just a more humane option for doctors when patients request it. But hospitals appear to have quotas for using it. They certainly are rated higher the more they use it. This means that if hospitals can convince more dying patients to forego expensive curative treatments and opt for an early and cheap exit, they get more money. One should hardly be surprised to learn that some people have allegedly been put on the Liverpool Care Pathway without the patient’s knowledge or consent. In at least some cases the patient wasn’t actually dying, which is obviously inconvenient. This is similar to how President Obama viewed the death of four Americans in Libya as a road bump.
Now we learn that this wasn’t just limited to old folks, someone decided what was good for the grandma was good for the grandson. Incredibly there are reports of doing this to newborn infants.
You either care about the sanctity of life, or you don’t. Once you start down the path of treating life casually, where does it end? Are some lives just worthless? This is the logic that has already resulted in the routine abortion of the fetus when the baby tests positive for Down syndrome. It is also the same logic that tells young girls that an abortion is a harmless solution to an inconvenient pregnancy. That is why there were about 750,000 abortions in the United States last year. Earth to liberals: Very few of them were because of rape, incest or the health of the mother! Ironically, the same people who don’t have a problem with any of this are the ones most likely to protest the execution of an obviously guilty serial killer. In the deluded mind of the liberal left, killing an adult, convicted in a fair trial, is the height of evil. But, euthanizing grandma because she is sick, and it is expensive to treat her, is just common sense. Like I said, you either care about the sanctity of life, or you don’t.
The government that gives you everything feels totally justified in taking everything away. When you have free health care provided by the government, that government ALWAYS starts making decisions on who does and does not get care. There are numerous governmental studies out there that already express concern about the high cost of dying. They know that the last six months of life are often the most expensive. That is why things like the “Liverpool Care Pathway” appeal to socialists. It is why this, or something similar, is coming to America unless people wake up. If you want to know what the future will look like under Obamacare, the answer is pretty easy. There will be plenty of money for important things like transgender surgery. There will also be money for happy pills, but not quite enough to try and cure grandma.
For whom the “Liverpool Care Pathway” tolls? it tolls for you and me.
TDM