Barack Obama gave a national presidential news conference on July 22. And he did such a great job selling his Obamacare that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put the kibosh on Obama’s imperious August deadline the very next day.
Even the New York Times turned on Obama’s presentation and faulted his “facts.” And in the lexicon of liberal heresies and heretics, that’s almost like the Apostles turning on Jesus. The Associated Press also found plenty of Obama’s “facts” to be somewhat deficient of truth content. The biggest gripe of all about Obama’s news conference is that he didn’t actually tell us anything. When you’re talking about taking over 1/5th of the US economy, a few details would have been nice.
That said, it would have helped Mr. Obama if he had bothered to actually bother to read the legislation before calling a national infomercial to sell it. Eventually Democrats are going to have to actually read the provisions of the major legislation they ram down the country’s collective throat, after all.
But no, it was a lot easier to just go out and demonize the Republicans as being the fearmongering forces opposing reform instead. Campaigning on vague notions of “hope” and “change,” without ever bothering to really describe what “hope” and “change” actually meant – and at the same time demagoguing against those opposing said amorphous “hope” and “change” – has worked wonderfully for Obama thus far. So it’s really no surprise that he would go back to that same magician’s hat again.
The good news, though, is that the Frankenstein monster of health care has been driven back into the castle for at least the time being. Grandma and grandpa have a reprieve.
Obama’s answer to a question that a woman asked about her mother’s health care is incredibly illustrative as to the bullet the elderly dodged today:
Member of the audience. Jane Sturm: “My mother is now over 105. But at 100, the doctors said to her, ‘I can’t do anything more unless you have a pacemaker.’ I said, ‘Go for it.’ She said, ‘Go for it.’ But the specialist said, ‘No, she’s too old.’ But when the other specialist saw her and saw her joy of life, he said, ‘I’m going for it.’ That was over five years ago. My question to you is: Outside the medical criteria for prolonging life for somebody who is elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, a quality of life, or is it just a medical cutoff at a certain age?”
Obama: “I don’t think that we can make judgments based on people’s ’spirit.’ Uh, that would be, uh, a pretty subjective decision to be making. I think we have to have rules that, uh, say that, uh, we are going to provide good quality care for all people. End-of-life care is one of the most difficult sets of decisions that we’re going to have to make. But understand that those decisions are already being made in one way or another. If they’re not being made under Medicare and Medicaid, they’re being made by private insurers. At least we can let doctors know — and your mom know — that you know what, maybe this isn’t going to help. Maybe you’re better off, uhh, not having the surgery, but, uhh, taking the painkiller.”
You can watch the exchange for yourself:
What is remarkable is the fact that this woman Jane Sturm was seeking reassurance that Obama would clearly and unequivocally affirm the elderly mother’s right to life, and Obama responded by telling her that maybe mom should just take a painkiller and die as a drugged-out zombie-veg due to government-sanctioned medical neglect.
This is nothing new: Democrats have been pursuing rationing as an antidote to the costs of their government system all along.
It is simply a fact that the vast majority of health care resources are consumed at the end of life. And as costs explode – and the CBO director has already told us the ugly truth that the cost of the Democrats’ plan WILL EXPLODE – it’s going to be the “resource-hogging” and “unproductive” senior citizens who are going to start seeing the short end of the health care stick.
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