Quality Adjusted Remaining Years

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A feature of Obama Health Care

I have read in our local Letters to the Editor [a leftist newspaper] that people sympathetic to the Obama Health Care plan have pointed out their difficulties with their own health care insurance or that of others. A typical scenario revolved around the denial of paid coverage by the insurance companies.

Apparently these same people may not be aware of what is in store for them under Obama Health Care. It is called Quality Adjusted Remaining Years.

Quality Adjusted Remaining Years is a term I first heard from the lips of Dick Morris. Just dissect that phrase yourself, one word at a time - Quality Adjusted Remaining Years. If you are over age 65 and need an operation or expensive medication, the OK for treatment will depend on your age and the cost of your treatment.

It is apparent that these Letter writers have not considered what is very likely to occur under Obama Health Care. At age 70 for instance, suppose that The Health Care Chart reveals that you may have two years to live and that your treatment is estimated to cost $20,000. This means that your Quality Adjusted Remaining Years score $10,000 per year. The Health Care Chart may show that this treatment is too expensive given your age. So, take a pain pill.

Unlike our current health care options, if Obama Care treatment is denied, you will NOT have an option to seek treatment on your own in the USA. Medical service people will be penalized if they treat you. So, you will need to fly or sail to the Bahamas for treatment.

Remember, the most expensive health care times in the lives of citizens are in the remaining years. Our Obama - Public - Government Health Care plan, what ever it will be called, will save money by NOT treating seniors who are ill or injured.

Remember: 1. Limited or rationed Obama Care for seniors. 2. Take a pill. 3. No option to seek health care anywhere in the USA. Could these conditions be reasons why the Rasmussen national telephone poll announced on 8/15/09 showed that 54% of the people want NO health care legislation passed.

At the same time the out of touch Democrats, in their town hall meetings, say that the people who attend their meetings are not representative of the population. If the Big Time Dying Media were real news reporters, they would report these facts … the right jack
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Unconstitutional Democrat Health Care Proposals

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A letter to my Congressmen

Government needs to get out of our lives. You are moving in directions that you were not voted in to do. The health care plans that you probably did not read are terrible. I am a senior and your government-lead decision makers will kill seniors. Vote NO and do it frequently. Failure to do so will doom your future political ambitions among seniors and their children. As a registered voter, believe it, and I say this calmly and with dignity.

I strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that would enact a government-run, public health care plan. A public plan would be an unfair competitor, ultimately shifting costs to the private sector as it becomes big enough to drive down reimbursements to doctors and hospitals. Consumers would then flock to the public plan because its premiums would be cheaper, and ultimately no viable private plans would remain.

In fact, a recent study by The Lewin Group estimates 130 million people would move from private to public insurance if such legislation were enacted. This would be a disaster - and devastate the employer-sponsored system.

Additionally, any mandate to employers that requires them to offer a one-size-fits-all "minimum benefits package" to all their employees is the wrong idea. The solution isn't to force people to buy into an unaffordable system; the solution is to improve the quality and affordability of health care through market-based changes. Employer mandates, by their nature, limit flexibility and innovation; the foundation of voluntary employer provided health care.

Instead, I encourage Congress to reform the insurance market and find ways to control costs. Without serious steps to decrease health care spending, any such plan will accelerate the day of a health care financial meltdown.

Please consider the impact that a public plan and new sweeping employer mandates would have on the private sector. This is not the way to overhaul the health care system. I strongly urge you to oppose any legislation that favors a government-run, public health care plan.

Pass it on ... the right jack
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