Obamacare dehumanizes "we the people" into a line item on a budget.
Once we out live our ability to pay taxes, we can be "cut"
Top British doctor's chilling claim: The National Health Service kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year. Is this going to happen in a future America,under Obamacare?
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2012/06/21 16:17:35
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NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday.
Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.
Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia of the elderly.
He claimed there was often a lack of clear evidence for initiating the Liverpool Care Pathway, a method of looking after terminally ill patients that is used in hospitals across the country.
It is designed to come into force when doctors believe it is impossible for a patient to recover and death is imminent.
It can include withdrawal of treatment – including the provision of water and nourishment by tube – and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.
It can include withdrawal of treatment – including the provision of water and nourishment by tube – and on average brings a patient to death in 33 hours.
There are around 450,000 deaths in Britain each year of people who are in hospital or under NHS care. Around 29 per cent – 130,000 – are of patients who were on the LCP.
Professor Pullicino claimed that far too often elderly patients who could live longer are placed on the LCP and it had now become an ‘assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway’.
He cited ‘pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients’ as factors.
He cited ‘pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients’ as factors.
Professor Pullicino revealed he had personally intervened to take a patient off the LCP who went on to be successfully treated.
He said this showed that claims they had hours or days left are ‘palpably false’.
He said this showed that claims they had hours or days left are ‘palpably false’.
In the example he revealed a 71-year-old who was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia and epilepsy was put on the LCP by a covering doctor on a weekend shift.
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Farnsworth 2012/06/21 16:26:03
Maybe I will look into this a bit more. Thanks
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According to an absolutely stunning new poll, 40 percent of all U.S. doctors plan to bail out of the profession over the next three years. Yes, you read the correctly. 4 out of every 10 doctors in America say that they are getting out in the next three years. Considering the fact that the United States was already facing an acute shortage of doctors in the coming years, this has the potential to destroy the U.S. health care system. Not that the other elements of Obamacare weren't going to completely wreck it already, but if hordes of doctors start running for the exits this is going to create a health nightmare of unprecedented proportions. The greatest medical system in the history of the world is degenerating into a complete and utter wasteland.
The new poll mentioned above was a Merritt Hawkins survey of 2,379 doctors for the Physicians Foundation which was conducted back in August.
According to that survey, 40 percent of U.S. doctors said that they would "retire, seek a nonclinical job in health care, or seek a job or business unrelated to health care" at some point over the next three years.
Not only that, but 74 percent of the doctors surveyed said that they plan to make "one or mo...
According to an absolutely stunning new poll, 40 percent of all U.S. doctors plan to bail out of the profession over the next three years. Yes, you read the correctly. 4 out of every 10 doctors in America say that they are getting out in the next three years. Considering the fact that the United States was already facing an acute shortage of doctors in the coming years, this has the potential to destroy the U.S. health care system. Not that the other elements of Obamacare weren't going to completely wreck it already, but if hordes of doctors start running for the exits this is going to create a health nightmare of unprecedented proportions. The greatest medical system in the history of the world is degenerating into a complete and utter wasteland.
The new poll mentioned above was a Merritt Hawkins survey of 2,379 doctors for the Physicians Foundation which was conducted back in August.
According to that survey, 40 percent of U.S. doctors said that they would "retire, seek a nonclinical job in health care, or seek a job or business unrelated to health care" at some point over the next three years.
Not only that, but 74 percent of the doctors surveyed said that they plan to make "one or more significant changes in their practices in the next one to three years, a time when many provisions of health reform will be phased in."
Are you alarmed by those numbers?
You should be.
Look forward, not only to this sort of official decision-making, but to the suicides of the elderly who are denied certain treatments because of their age, prescribed pain medications only.
It is indeed criminal to kill off patients before time, because their treatment is too expensive, too long, palliative or because a patient is difficult, only due to a tight budget.
I do not believe that an obligatory health insurance would have effect on such practise in either sense, unless the cut prices of care.
In the U.K., I remember that the Queen herself decided to pay taxes some years ago, and that certain new taxes were added. Like in other European countries, taxes were raised. Furthermore, several public institutions were privatised, but especially with the transport systems, there were problems with safety and poor quality and too high cost, as the private owners massively reduced their personel. As today, England is struggling like most of the European countries with huge deficits, mostly due to overspeculation, erroneous investments and also fraud, I am wondering if these measures will help, unless they introduce more sustainable policy.
As to my country, several initiatives to cut down the cost of the medical sector were turned down by several votations (the last one included the introduction of one single health insurance with drastic reductions on the coverage of medical treatments and medicines - also turned down - took place last Sunday, 17 June). As to tax cuts, there have been certain efforts, but in many cases some privileged people or companies got the big benefits. I should add that the poorest are exempted from taxes.