Obama's Health Care(less) Plan: All You Need to Know

Obama doesn't want to fix health care in the U.S. He wants to change the very nature of it. Quality isn't the issue. Money is.

ObamaCare isn't meant to work for individuals. It's a faceless, heartless system that creates dependents and takes away freedom.

During the infamous Obama health care infomercial on ABC, Obama's response to the question posed by Jane Sturm regarding her elderly mother brought such clarity to the debate.

Using her mother as an example, Sturm wondered about prolonging life and asked Obama if any consideration will be given for a "certain spirit, a certain joy of living," or if it will just be a matter of a "medical cut-off at a certain age."

I don't think Obama realized how terribly callous his answer was, how utterly cold and distant and dehumanizing.

OBAMA: We're not going to solve every difficult problem in terms of end-of-life care. A lot of that is going to have to be we as a culture and as a society starting to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves.

But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system, that's not making anybody's mom better, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs, that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care, that 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 not having the surgery but taking the painkiller.

Translation: Just die and "decrease the surplus population."

Obama is a medical Scrooge.



Bottom line: What Obama's plan reveals is his lack of respect for life.

What Obama is proposing doesn't resemble the sort of medical care we currently have in this country.

I don't think people understand the consequences of Obama's plan. I think many envision service like we have now, just with everyone entitled to complete coverage.

That's not it.

The overhaul Obama and his Democrat comrades want is a cultural shift in how we view life and the approach we take when treating medical conditions.

Clearly, Obama is not seeking to preserve, protect and defend the lives of the sick. He's calling for the government to set limits, arbitrary guidelines to determine when treatment should be stopped and pain management started.

Obama is calling for a system that will say when it's time to die, when life-prolonging surgeries and drugs will be denied.

How can one measure the value of another year of life, or another month, or another week? How can one put a price on that?

Obama's plan will determine which lives are worth saving and which are worthless.

The Democrats have spent decades talking about the sanctity of the doctor/patient relationship when it comes to abortion. Abortion decisions must be made solely by a woman and her doctor. The government has no place interferring. Obama certainly believes it's wrong for anyone to get in the way of a woman's right to kill her unborn child. No government intervention allowed.

In the case of Terri Schiavo, the Democrats argued that the government should not have tried to protect her right to due process and possibly save her life. No intervention.

On February 26, 2008, in Cleveland during a Democrat primary debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, candidate Obama invoked Terri Schiavo.

Tim Russert asked the candidates if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back ... in your careers in public service."

Obama cited one vote that he would take back. If he had the opportunity to take back a vote he cast during his years in public service, it would be the one he cast to offer a disabled woman, Terri Schiavo, the right to a federal review – for a federal judge to make sure that her due process rights had not been denied, the same right given to all prisoners on death row.

Obama said, "I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better."

Whether it's killing an unborn baby or putting to death a disabled woman, Obama wants the government out of that decision-making process.

But now, Obama's health care plan will put the government right in the middle of all of our medical decisions.

Pro-choice Obama intends to strip choice from Americans when it comes to their medical care by creating a massive government bureaucracy to determine who will receive treatments and drugs, who will live and die.

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. explains:

At the heart of Mr. Obama's plan is his stated goal to cut medical costs. That might sound good to you, but it means cutting services, nurses, technicians, medical tests and, most prominently, the use of expensive technology. The president's top medical advisers are quite frank about this.

Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and a health-policy adviser in the Office of Management and Budget, has chided Americans for the expense of their "being enamored with technology." Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, charges medical innovations as being responsible for fully two-thirds of the annual increase in health care spending. Their solution is to limit expensive innovations. A 2008 Congressional Budget Office report agrees with their cost analysis but concludes happily that such innovations "permit the treatment of previously untreatable conditions."

Call your senators and representative before it's too late.

Tell them that you don't support rationing care.

Tell them that you do not support the destruction of our current system.

Tell them that you do not support the government controlling the health care choices of your loved ones.

It's time to end this long national nightmare.

Has it only been six months since Obama's inauguration?

These six months have sucked.