It seems Hillary was caught passing on some lies about an pregnant Ohio woman that died because she couldn't afford a $100 copay but actually had insurance and could have been taken to emergency care instead. This article is case in point on what could go wrong if Obama/Hillary got their Health Care plans passed.
Perhaps Hillary should start telling the tale of Debbie Hirst, a British breast cancer patient whose cancer had metastasized. Her oncologist suggested a drug, Avastin, which is widely used in the U.S. and other European nations to prolong the life of cancer patients like her. But bureaucrats had decided that at $120,000 a year, prolonging Debbie Hirst's life would cost just too much money to be worth it. That's bad enough, but because the government is committed to "equal care" for all its patients, the bureaucrats went even further: They told Debbie Hirst that she had to choose between buying Avastin on her own, and receiving any health care from the government at all. She could not, in other words, mortgage her own home to buy a drug to save her own life without being penalized by the loss of all her other cancer care and drugs.
So it would then be up to some American beancounter to okay your life saving surgery or medicine or condemn you to death even if you had the $120K a year to keep you alive. So this spirit of "equal care" could actually strait up kill you no matter what you wanted to do with your own money. It would be a matter of everything being free and you have to wait and die or you get to pay for everything. That sounds like something America doesn't need.
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