call, call, call

A few weeks ago I called my Representative to ask when he was holding town hall meetings. His staff member said, "He is too busy to have a meeting." Today I called him and my Senators and I urge you to do the same. The more I hear about Obamacare, the more scared I get. Government bureaucrats having access to our tax returns, bank accounts, and medical records and then deciding if individual citizens get medical procedures. Abortion paid for by taxpayers. Death panels (Obama already said that Granny is to take a pain pill instead of getting a pacemaker. If you think that he will cover bone marrow transplants, treatments for folks with stage 3 or 4 cancer, or any other expensive medical procedure you are delusional) Rationed care will be the norm for everyone (if there is a limited supply of a "free" good or service then not everyone will be able to obtain it)

Reading published statements from Ezekiel Emanual (Obama's health care advisor) on how the deck would be stacked is chilling.

"However, other things are rarely equal—whether to save one 20-year-old, who might live another 60 years, if saved, or three 70-year-olds, who could only live for another 10 years each—is unclear." In fact, Dr. Emanuel makes a clear choice: "When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get changes that are attenuated.

Dr. Emanuel concedes that his plan appears to discriminate against older people, but he explains: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination. . . . Treating 65 year olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not."

The youngest are also put at the back of the line: "Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. . . . (thelancet.com, Jan. 31, 2009).

The time to fight this is now, not after the American people are subjected to the same horrors as the British have for years now. Every day another story comes out about old people not getting fed and washed while in hospitals, women giving birth in hallways for lack of beds, months long waits for cancer treatment, etc. I told the staff members how I think it is appalling that this is being pushed as a memorial to Teddy Kennedy when his own decisions were the exact opposite of what this bill pushes. He and his family made the decision to go to Duke when all the other surgeons said there was nothing that could be done. He fought to live, not go peacefully into that good night like any average 73 year old under Obamacare would be told.

For children, for the elderly, for ourselves I urge you to call and tell Congress, "No Obamacare. No rationing. I want to make medical decisions for myself and my family."