Cradle to Grave Single Payer Medicare

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First of all… I admit to being cynical. Healthcare reform has nothing to do with Global Warming… right? I’m sure this is all a coincidence.

Population control called key to deal

As a result of the family planning policy, China has seen 400 million fewer births, which has resulted in 18 million fewer tons of CO2 emissions a year, Zhao said.

The UN report projected that if the global population would remain 8 billion by the year 2050 instead of a little more than 9 billion according to medium-growth scenario, “it might result in 1 billion to 2 billion fewer tons of carbon emissions”.

Meanwhile…

Whew! I’m so glad that all the talk of abortions and “death panels” and super-double-secret behind-closed door HCR “negotiations” have nothing to do with population control. I don’t know that for a fact… but…

Copenhagen ‘Circus’ Turning Into Feel-Good Jamboree, Critics Say

International Planned Parenthood is putting on a show about how to increase contraception in the third world to stop babies — who later become adults — from ruining the environment.

HAHAHAHaha!!! They don’t want the government to pay for abortions, do they? Subsidize…

Breaking news: Congress restores Planned Parenthood birth control subsidy

I’m sure this is all a coincidence.

MOVING ON TO THE SINGLE PAYER ISSUE:

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While debating “healthcare reform” in the Senate, it’s not surprising that some Congressmen do not want “the public option.” Makes sense, sine the majority of the public doesn’t want it.

Public option may be dead in Senate

WASHINGTON — After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a full-blown government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation, several officials said, a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority. [Note that Party moderates, not liberals, oppose the government-run insurance option]

In its place, officials said Democrats had tentatively settled on a private insurance arrangement to be supervised by the federal agency that oversees the system through which lawmakers purchase coverage, with the possibility of greater government involvement if needed to ensure consumers of sufficient choices in coverage. [Boy, that sounds like a weasel-worded version of the same thing.]

Additionally, the emerging agreement calls for Medicare to be opened to uninsured Americans beginning at age 55, a significant expansion of the large government health care program that currently serves the 65-and-over population. [YIKES! Are "the moderates" going to fall for this trickery?]

At a hastily called evening news conference in the Capitol, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., declined to provide details of what he described as a “broad agreement” between liberals and moderates on an issue that has plagued Democrats’ efforts to pass health care legislation from the outset. [More secret negotiations. Super-duper-double secrets!]

With it, he added with a smile, the end is in sight for passage of the legislation that Congress has labored over for months. [Ahhhh, IF ONLY the end were in sight. That would be great, just shred it, burn it and bury the legislation.]

But, Oldhardhead, you may ask. What is wrong with expanding medicare coverage to people 55 years old?

Medicare will be broke in eight years, says CCAGW

Broke?  Yikes! And they want to add people to the plan????

For Some Ages 55 to 64, Medicare Will Cost Too Much

Millions more Americans could get access to Medicare under the latest health proposal by Senate Democrats. But the program may not be cheap enough to entice some of them to sign up. [...]

The health bills in Congress already contain some changes to address those problems, but Medicare eligibility would add a new backstop to ensure they could get coverage at a less-than-astronomical price. [It would be less expensive for the consumer. So it could put private insurers out of business because they aren't subsidized by the taxpayers.]

Lawmakers have repeatedly proposed expanding Medicare, including when President Bill Clinton pushed unsuccessfully for universal health insurance in 1993 and 1994. One reason the idea never took hold was that lawmakers couldn’t find a cost-effective way to do it. Another reason was the opposition of doctors and hospitals. They have lobbied feverishly against expanding Medicare, because the program pays them lower rates than private insurers do.

“We have a lot of concern,” said Jeffrey Korsmo, executive director for the health policy center at the Mayo Clinic, which said it lost $840 million treating Medicare patients last year. He said the change would “push the best providers, hospitals and physicians closer to the brink of financial ruin.”

That does not sound as if it “promotes the general welfare,” now does it? It sure looks to me as if single payer, cradle to grave, government run healthcare is the goal.

Path to single payer?

Flashback: Sen. Kennedy Promotes Medicare Expansion as Prelude to Medicare for All

YIKES! Are “the moderates” going to fall for this trickery? Does Harry Reid think the moderates are that stupid? If they fall for it, perhaps they are. Who knows what “agreements”  they came up with that they aren’t disclosing. I hope it doesn’t involve blackmail.

Where can they go to get information? If only there was a blog or something… (old to new)

Obama tries to get the support of doctors

Million Med March

Imposing Statism or Socialism on a people

U.S. health-care overhaul: New Taxes. Raising the costs of health insurance.

Path to single payer?

Pelosi promotes government takeover of healthcare

Forcing “Healthcare” through Congress by Hook or Crook

Healthcare Negotiations

Obamacare Update #1

Obamacare Update #2

Constitutionality of Health Insurance Mandates

Obamacare Update#3 – The Public Option

I Got Your Public Option. Right Here, Pal.

Pelosicare

Pelosicare Part Deux

Congress Wants a Pony (Healthcare)

Government Overthrow of Healthcare – Update

What’s next for Healthcare

Healthcare. Pelosi. Horror. A plan to destroy the US healthcare system.

Cost of Healthcare Reform

Socialized Medicine – Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan

Contact Your Senators. NO HARRYCARE

Corruption In The Senate: Landrieu’s Vote

Senate Health-Care Bill’s Costs

No Obamacare. Here’s why:

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