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For instance, the cover story, "Medical Murder," documents how British seniors, under a government-run system, "are routinely denied treatment for cancer, heart disease and other deadly illnesses," many dying "in filthy, overcrowded hospitals or nursing homes, rife with pestilence, including the deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs." Numerous horror stories of needed medical care intentionally denied reveal the stark reality of government-run health care worldwide.
To a small degree, Obamacare's ominous implications are starting to leak out. Here's how columnist Charlotte Allen explained it recently in the Los Angeles Times:
In looking for a way to fund healthcare, Obama has set his eye on the oldest and sickest. You see, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, about 30 percent of Medicare spending – nearly $100 billion annually – goes to care for patients during their last year of life. What if there were no 'last year of life,' the president seems to be asking. ... 
hy not save billions of dollars by killing off our own unproductive oldsters and terminal patients, or – since we aren't likely to do that outright in this, the 21st century – why not simply ensure that they die faster by denying them costly medical care? The savings could then subsidize care for the younger and healthier.
And for those who have been paying close attention, Obama himself has ever-so-gently hinted at his true intentions. At a town hall event in June televised by ABC News, Obama cited the case of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who died on the eve of his election, suggesting one way to cut medical costs would be to stop expensive procedures on people about to die.
Families, Obama said, need better information so they don't approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."
"Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller," the president offered.
Obama was slightly more explicit in a May 3 interview with the New York Times, when he said there ought to be a national "conversation" over whether "sort of in the aggregate, society making those decisions to give my grandmother, or everybody else's aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model." Such decisions, added Obama, shouldn't be left to patients or their relatives, but to a "group" of "doctors, scientists, ethicists" who are not part of "normal political channels."
One such elite medical decision-maker would be Obama’s special adviser for health policy, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel. He's a longtime advocate of "age-weighted medical rationing" – meaning, the older you are, the less care you get, as in Britain. But what about the Hippocratic Oath, you might ask, the sacred vow doctors have always taken to do all they can to heal their patients? As Whistleblower documents, Emanuel advises doctors to stop taking that oath so literally, and instead to be "prudent" in assessing how much time, effort and money each patient is worth, for the greater good of society.
Moreover, as "MEDICAL MURDER" reports, a bill being pushed hard by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, will take from Congress all authority over federal health spending and decree that such decisions in the future would be made by a secretive committee of "experts" modeled after – are you ready? – the Federal Reserve Board.
Highlights of "MEDICAL MURDER" include:
* "It's D-Day for choice in health care" by Joseph Farah
* "The evil of Obamacare" by David Kupelian
* "Alice in Medical Care" by Thomas Sowell, who says those raising healthcare alarm are "long on catch phrases, short on coherence"
* "Medical murder" by Richard Poe, a stunning, in-depth investigative report why Obamacare could result in the early deaths of millions of baby boomers
* "Massachusetts: A model not to copy" by Phyllis Schlafly, who shows the Obama-Kennedy health care bill is based on a failing plan
* "Government is the problem" by Ben Shapiro, on why Obama's plan will only make America's health care system worse
* "How Obama's health care agenda will hurt American families" – documenting how the plan chips away at fundamental rights while putting bureaucrats in control of decisions
* "Entitled to be sick, fat and self-destructive" by Star Parker, who says personal responsibility is at the heart of the real health care solution
* "Exposing the myths of universal health coverage," by Devon Herrick, on why Obama's plan to lower costs would have the opposite effect
* "'45 million Americans' – who are those guys?" by Larry Elder, revealing what the government isn't telling you about the so-called "uninsured"
* "Health care is not that complicated" by C. Edmund Wright, who shows graphically what would happen to auto repair if we used the same system of insurance?
* "Live free or die" by Mark Steyn, who explains how government health care "can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom"
"Obamacare is arguably the single most important issue of our time," said Kupelian. "It's not about taxes, debt, wasteful spending or burdensome regulations – it's about our very lives, and the lives of our loved ones. Americans seriously need to wake up and see the horror staring them in the face, and then they need to let their elected representatives know, in no uncertain terms, exactly what they think of Obamacare."
Beautiful post, Dr. McNeel. Thank you.
First we had birthers...and now we apparently have deathers. I don't think you can be both a birther and a deather, so you are going to have to choose.
Of course, you could always choose reason and logic, but that is in short supply around here.
Don't you know? Roger thinks it's OK for him to attack whomever he wishes. It's just not OK for anyone to attack him. I think that's called being a hypocrite.
And speaking of, I believe I was "challenged to a drug test." First thing I did this morning after he accused me of being a "druggie" was root around in my office file cabinet and pull out a manditory drug test screening required by my employer. Here is the photocopy of my results, and understandably you realize, Roger, that I erased the SS number and other personal information off the document. I will, however, let you see my first name and my age.
I now challenge YOU to put your money where your big, fat mouth is and post your own drug test, Rog. You ARE going to honor your challenge and go take one, right? If not, you've proved yourself a hypocrite. Again...
