[StBernard] Important information for seniors/healthcare

Westley Annis Westley at da-parish.com
Mon Jan 18 22:44:57 EST 2010


Received this from a good friend of ours in Corpus who was diagnosed with
cancer last year. See what his doctor is saying...


Wednesday, I was at the doctor whom I have been going to since we moved down
here (he is the one who discovered my cancer). I have to get a very
expensive shot every 3 months ($3000) that is designed to keep the PSI down
and help to prevent a recurrence of the cancer. Has some uncomfortable side
effects, and I was questioning the need to continue with it, which he
assured me was necessary. He then asked how old I was, and when I replied
70, he said that if this legislation goes through as intended by the powers
that be, that I probably would not be able to get it next year, as that
would be money "better spent" on someone else with "greater longevity". I
would be referred to someone to "counsel" me.

I asked him why the AMA had recently endorsed the plan. He replied that
only about 15% of the nation's doctors were members of AMA, and most of them
were not really on the front lines of doctorhood but in some other areas of
medicine. He said he was a member, but would not be after this membership
year.



This man got part of his training in London, and practiced in Canada for 16
years before coming to the US, and he has no use for socialized medicine,
regardless of how you wrap it, or what kind of bow to put on it. He said
that we have a shortfall of around 400,000 doctors at the present time, and
many of today's doctors are of the baby boomer generation who are nearing
retirement and/or will decide to hang it up rather than deal with the
results this is sure to bring.


Scary, my friends. The picture for our age group is not pretty in
Obamaland.



SENIOR DEATH WARRANTS:

In England, no one over 59 can receive heart repairs or stents or bypass
because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed.


Obama wants to have a healthcare system just like Canada's and England's. I
got this today and am sending it on. If Obama's plans in other areas don't
scare you, this should. Please do not let Obama sign senior death warrants.

Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is
getting close to, or knows someone that is.

Most of you know by now that the Senate version of the "stimulus" bill
includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior
citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax
evader, Tom Daschle was credited today by Bloomberg with the following
statement:


Bloomberg: 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."

Just remember that our esteemed Senators and Congressmen have their own
healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are
guaranteed for the remainder of their lives. Nor are they subject to this
new law if it passes.

Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at
the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and five
months. And we have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous
direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the
interim, we can make their lives miserable. Let's do this.

If you disagree, do nothing.





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