Sounds to me like the NYT is indeed pushing healthcare rationing and the withdrawing of end-of-life care for the elderly, and the summary dispensement of patient choice:
Hey, grandma, hurry up and die so that Obamacare can pay for healthcare for more worthy, younger folks. That seems to be the message that The New York Times is selling in order to smooth the waters for the nationalized healthcare system that president Obama is trying to peddle to us all.
The Times is running a series titled "Months to Live" in order to help spread the sort of end of life issues that are helpful to Obama's healthcare agenda, one of which seems to be the idea that elderly should forgo any sort of heroic measures to keep them alive so as not to waste those resources that might be able to go to younger, more vital patients.
Even the socialists aren't happy about Obama's rationing of care for the elderly. On June 9 of this year, World Socialist reported that President Obama had called for cuts in funding for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, including the elimination of subsidies for hospitals that treat uninsured patients:
... The proposal, combined with plans to limit medical tests and treatments, underscores the reactionary, anti-working class character of Obama's proposed "reform" of the health care system.Interestingly, Obamacare is, according to Obama himself, not good enough for his own family (although he has no problem with his own grandmother being denied surgery in order to save money), but he wants it for the rest of us. As Dick Morris recently wrote: "Obama's health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access."is becoming increasingly clear that the essence of the administration's health care policy, under the guise of universal coverage, is a downgrading of care for the majority of the population so as to cut health care costs for business and the government.
Administration spokesmen have also indicated that Obama is receptive to the idea of taxing workers for the health benefits they receive from their employers--something for which he denounced his opponent, Senator John McCain, during last year's presidential election campaign.
If our country cannot provide proper care for the elderly, how is it ever going to pay for quality medical care for the rest of the nation under nationalized healthcare?
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