FINALLY, SOMEONE SPECULATES ABOUT THE “REAL” CONSPIRACY IN HEALTH CARE REFORM … Medicare elimination
Is Medicare the Real Target of ‘Health Care Reform?’
from Big Government by Dr. Jane Orient
Nobody outside the inner halls of Congress really knows what’s going on in the negotiations on health care “reform. Every now and then, someone emerges from the formerly smoke-filled rooms and throws another 2,000 or so page “bill” out into the public and then disappears to continue talks to carve up one-sixth of the nation’s economy.
But we do know some of the critical unforgiving numbers. And we have strong reason to suspect that radical changes to Medicare Part E (as in Medicare for Everybody) is the real endgame, whatever the interim steps are called: public option, cooperatives, or mandated Insurance Exchanges.
We have the unmentionable truth that Medicare is insolvent. And the common dogma that Medicare is efficient, popular, and impregnable. Is it a Hegelian thesis and antithesis? With the synthesis being to throw the whole rest of the system, which is also allegedly bankrupting the country, into Medicare?
Are our leaders stark, raving mad? Or diabolically clever?
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So here’s the con: We put everybody into the comprehensively reformed system. We suck in huge amounts of new revenues, not called “taxes” but rather “premiums,” “penalties,” “fees,” “surcharges,” or “shared responsibility payments.” Since the thresholds aren’t indexed for inflation, the “responsibility” to “share” the load for other people’s needs migrates down the social scale as the dollar deteriorates.
Now comes the allocation part. We make everybody dependent on the system: patients for their care, doctors for their livelihood, so everybody is in a cooperative mood.
THEN WHAT HAPPENS IN THE POLITICAL ARENA?
We let politicians off the hook by delegating the key decisions to an appointed Federal Reserve-like agency.
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The elderly would not all be cut off at once. They would simply be placed in an overloaded boat with everybody else, with lower-priority people pitched overboard-one at a time.
No death panel is needed. The system simply ratchets down doctors’ pay to the minimum they will tolerate, then punishes those on the top end of the spending curve. It will know who they are because of intense electronic monitoring of everything. Rational rationing-“equitable redistribution”-will occur.
SERIOUSLY? IF THIS ISN’T A TOPIC BEING DISCUSSED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, IT WOULD QUALIFY AS THE 9TH WONDER OF THE WORLD.
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