House "Health Care" Bill Contains 'Death Houses' For Elderly

This is insane. If it weren't for all the other evidence (that the non-bill-reading press continues to deny), you could reject any single item, but all together you'd have to be nuts to do that. The mandated 'consultations' about 'killing yourself to take the burden off others' between the elderly and 'doctors'. The calls for only allowing 'the red pill' because 'the red pill' works for some people and costs less, whether or not you need 'the blue pill'. Obama's own words saying we should maybe just give the elderly pain pills instead of measures to extend their lives and improve their quality of life. Obama's own advisors' history with calls for population control.

Now this bit of cheerfulness - low cost places to send the elderly and disabled where we don't pay for doctors and strictly ration care according to the government-determined effective treatments so they can just go ahead and die already:

The House health-care reform bill proposes to decrease hospital visits by establishing a “medical home pilot program” for elderly and disabled Americans.

Such a medical home would not require a physician to be on the staff, and therefore could be run solely by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Medical homes also would practice “evidence-based” medicine, which advocates only the use of medical treatments that are supported by effectiveness research.

But physicians’ groups say the legislation could lead to restrictions on which treatments may be used for certain conditions, despite the fact that some patients might require a unique or unconventional approach. It also may lead to dumping Medicare/Medicaid patients in facilities that are not required to have physicians on staff...

In the long run, according to CMPI, evidence-based medicine may not even cut costs as Congress suggests it would.

“Evidence-based medicine may provide transitory savings in the short term, but the same patient who takes the cheapest available statin today may very well be the patient costing you -- the taxpayer, the policymaker, the thought-leader, the sister, the spouse -- big bucks when that patient ends up in the hospital because of improperly treated cardiovascular disease."...

Provisions for the medical home pilot program are an amendment to the Social Security Act, which governs the administration of Medicare and Medicaid services...

Again, taken by itself you go 'nah, I bet it means something else', but taken as a group, be afraid, be very afraid. And remember, all the other stuff conservatives have said to be afraid of with these current Democrats have all come true or are coming true.