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Sarah Palin was right about the "Death Panels."

Nancy Pelosi was right that "we had to pass the bill to see what was in it."

Usually when I find an excellent article, I copy the whole thing here. That's to preserve it because I don't know how long the original site retains stuff, but it's also a copyright violation, so I'm trying to avoid doing it very often.

By John Griffing

Andy Griffith, the former TV Sheriff of Mayberry and guardian of small town America, is now the national spokesman for ObamaCare. More specifically, this venerable gentleman is the spokesman for the new Medicare. Apparently Griffith is under the naïve belief that ObamaCare is a genuinely good thing for seniors. As much as it pains me to say this, Griffith is dead wrong. ObamaCare is a fatal bargain for seniors, and all Americans.

Although media reports covering ObamaCare have centered mainly on the health insurance mandate and hidden tax increases, the real danger of ObamaCare lies in the official sanction of "mercy death" for America's seniors as a means of reducing federal medical outlays. No, ObamaCare doesn't say this outright. It simply limits hospital readmissions for those using Medicare, thereafter automatically committing said Medicare recipients to hospice facilities, called "community-based care." Consider the following from Section 3025:

The article continues and it's excellent...

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Essentially, the "Secretary" shall have the power to decide when a senior has used up his or her quota of medical care or is at high risk of using too much care. That senior will be dispatched to a hospice and given palliative care and maybe a little push toward the hereafter.

I thought the Hippocratic Oath said something like "First, do no harm..." but I guess after abortions became acceptable, it was no great leap to terminations. They got you coming and going.

Last year, just after obuma was inaugurated, I emailed him to nominate Doctor Jack Kevorkian for Surgeon General. I received medical policy newsletters from the White House for 6 months after that. I guess they thought I was a real fan of The Won's medical policies.

Ha, I'm an old, burned out, disabled vet who loved the America we once had. This week the doctor should be getting back the biopsy results on what's wrong with my insides. I don't think it's going to be this time, but sooner or later I'm expecting to get a terminal diagnosis for my body before my brain goes senile, and then I can guarantee you that this senior won't be spending any time in a hospice.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost