Old People With A Bullseye On Their Chest

This morning when I woke up it was cold. I hate cold. (HATE cold.)

So, I lingered in bed as long as I could do so with the cooperation of the three dogs burrowed in around me. I flipped on the radio for mental stimulation, hoping something in me would want to move, generate some energy.

What I heard on the radio was a former Brit talking about how government run healthcare in the United Kingdom killed his father and pronounced his mother dead seven years early. As he well put it, when you take profit out of health care it becomes all about cost, the older you are the more you are simply taking funds away from younger individuals who will be sending money in to government for many more years to come. When you budget for anything, certain items, efforts, LIVES, obviously take precedence over others.

Sad that so many Americans -- land of the free, home of the brave -- still are taken in by the b.s. that is government doing ANYTHING well for us, much less handing over decisions for their own health care.

Sarah Palin and Tea Party members over the last year have derided Obamacare for the "death panels" it will obviously lead to. Its Leftists supporters said that would not happen, but it's come up yet again, of course, because just as Simon Conway (the Brit) said this morning, once profit is removed from health care, it's all about cost. Some people will "cost" more than others. The older you are the more you have a target on your chest.



"Death panels" can't exist in this country. No way. That's what they say. Yet, they have already been with us.

Many now may know -- but more NEED to know -- the story of Barbara Wagner in Oregon. She was 64 years old when she found lung cancer, previously in remission, had returned. She filed with the Oregon Health Plan -- they've been doing it the socialist way in Oregon for some time -- for a potentially life-saving drug which would cost $4,000 per month. She was denied the drug, but, with the big hearts of bureaucrats, they did offer to help her DIE.



With a new more Conservative congress, there will be efforts to halt funding of Obamacare, if not repeal all together.

Americans who value freedom, who value their health, who value and appreciate our older Americans, who want this country to return to sanity, should maintain pressure on their elected representatives to ensure this happens.

This is important. If this legislation is not repealed, halted before full implementation, our country as we have always known it is done, a memory getting more distant in our rear view mirror.

The idea of life, our country under Obamacare makes cold and dreary weather seem attractive by comparison.