Sarah Palin is right- CBO recommends Death Panels (health care, Obama, speech)

[SilverOne]

CBO on Medicare ? ?We need a Death Panel? | zero hedge

Doug Elmendorf of the CBO gave a speech on Medicare and the concept of rationing Health Care is coming, we are not as rich as we think.

[workingclasshero]

we certainly need to make death more dignified

[wjtwet]

Originally Posted by SilverOne

CBO on Medicare ? ?We need a Death Panel? | zero hedge

Doug Elmendorf of the CBO gave a speech on Medicare and the concept of rationing Health Care is coming, we are not as rich as we think.

Sarah Palin is going to be proved right on many issues

[DC at the Ridge]

We already ration healthcare. We ration healthcare when insurance companies determine what treatments they will cover and what they won't. We ration healthcare when doctors quietly determine that an 87 year-old woman does not merit an aggressive treatment approach to the major heart attack she's just suffered. We ration healthcare when the widow down the street doesn't fill her subscription because she has to choose between food or medicine.

And whether we like it or not, we'll be doing a lot more healthcare rationing as more and more babyboomers age and become more dependent on health services. Because we have a broken healthcare system that's going to break the American economy. It's not our debt that's going to bankrupt us. It's trying to care for the baby-boomers that's going to bankrupt this country.

[jojajn]

And the Republicans are the appointees of these "death panels!"

Though Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan intends to target Medicaid and Medicare for savings. While Medicaid is easiest to win consensus on, Medicare is the biggest debt driver. It’s not yet clear how much Ryan hopes to cut from Medicare, and he and GOP leaders have been reluctant to discuss their plans for the other entitlement behemoth: Social Security. But they’ve made clear that they don’t consider Social Security to be as pressing an issue as Medicare and Medicaid."

Republicans Want To Cut $1 Trillion Out Of Budget Plan

[jojajn]

YouTube - DNC TV Ad: "Republicans Want to End Medicare"

[Visvaldis]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

we certainly need to make death more dignified

Maybe the health insurance industry and the CBO can combine to purchase bulldozers to dig mass graves for those who get sick but have no money.

[SilverOne]

but,but... we have Obamacare-- so why do we need Medicare and Medicad

[burdell]

Originally Posted by wjtwet

Sarah Palin is going to be proved right on many issues

But will she be proven correct on any?

[jojajn]

Chairman of the House Budget Committee said the House Republicans' budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 will propose fundamental changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the giant health care programs that cover 100 million Americans and whose combined costs rival the defense budget.
Last year, Ryan proposed eliminating the current Medicare program and replacing it with vouchers, but now:

Ryan offered no specifics, saying details are still being hashed out.

Daily Kos: Paul Ryan: Republican Party has secret plan to cut Medicare

Remember how outraged Republicans were with the $500 billion cut in Medicare in the Healthcare Bill?

Well......................