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February 10, 2009
Seniors get screwed on health care in Senate's Spendabus plan (Updated)
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn the way of a follow-up to a previous post, how "ironic," indeed, that "Seniors are the ones Democrats try to scare every election season: those evil Republicans are going to take away their health-care." However, they're about to find out the truth, that Dashle's health car plan has been put in Obama's "spendulus" plan and "Seniors are to be hardest hit":
Daschle says health-care reform "will not be pain free." Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.More at Nice DebMedicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).
The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle's book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.
In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.
Related: Bloomber.com: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey
Other coverage: Michelle Malkin.
Posted by Hyscience at February 10, 2009 11:53 AM
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