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July 22, 2009

An "Old Age Penalty" For Healthcare Services?

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Don't think for even a moment that this sort of inequity will not also befall America if we implement Obamacare:

Last week England's Yorkshire Post featured a few stories on the failure that is British nationalized healthcare. Among others, it featured one 54-year-old woman that had to wait 18 months to get an abscess taken from her mouth and a 74-year-old man that found he could not get the care for his heart condition that he needed because he was deemed too old to be worth the effort.

Once again, we have a perfect example of the sort of nationalized healthcare administered by government bean counters and bureaucrats (and NOT doctors) that will result here if we institute Obamacare.

Worse than the long wait lists, however, is the "old age lottery" that plagues the elderly in England's nationalized healthcare system. It seems that the elderly are the last to get treatment because they are deemed less worthy of the costs of care.

So, a new plan has been conceived. The "free" care for the elderly will be "guaranteed" by a £25,000 up-front payment by patients to the government to assure them that they will receive timely healthcare.

Yes, the national plan that is paid for by patient's taxes, taxes paid during their entire lives, the national plan that is supposed to cover everyone, will now need a hefty fee paid by the elderly in order to assure them that they will be afforded the care they've paid all their lives to access.