Medicare Bill is institutionalized euthanasia
A highly placed aide in the office of former Bush administration federal Medicare adminstrator Thomas A. Scully, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the recently passed amenment to the Medicare legislation as institutionalized euthanasia. “Most critics have focused on the giveaways to big pharm, HMOs, and insurance companies,” this aide explained, “but there is a much, much darker aspect to the legislation.” The legislation has the effect of reducing services to seniors, the aide said, and this means that untreated, unprotected seniors will die earlier than they otherwise would if they received the care their Medicare contributions were supposed to pay for.
“The Medicare amendment has the same intent as the government’s covert position on cigarettes,” the aide continued. “The government knows that by adopting a weak stance on cigarettes, people will smoke, get cancer, and die. There are no costly interventions to cure cancer that would cost the government money. Cigarette induced cancer usually appears just about retirement age. The government is perfectly happy to let people die of cancer at retirement, because it saves money in Social Security payments. After all, government and the employer have gotten the benefit of the employee’s labor, and now that he can’t labor any more, they’d like to get rid of him as quickly and cheaply as possible.”
The aide continues, “The adminstration is well aware of the euthanasia effect. Insiders call it ‘permanent retirement.’ When our office wrote the guarantee of ‘maximum flexibility’ into the law that allows HMOs to cherry pick clients, we knew that the sicker and weaker citizens would be denied services. We also knew that government would not have the resources to care for them, and we knew that these same people would be less likely to have the funds to pay 100% of costs between $2,250 and $5,850 that the law requires. Therefore, these people will die, because they’re not going to get good medical care, and the government can use the Social Security money it saves for other purposes.”
“Citizens need to understand that there is enormous competition for dollars among the military, corporations that contract to the government, big pharm, the insurance companies, and the HMOs. All any of these players cares about is the bottom line and cash flow. The Halliburtons, Bechtels, and Generaly Dynamics would yank the plug on their own mother if they knew it would benefit them. The early deaths due to denied medical care of a few hundred thousand elderly citizens each year means nothing to the corporations. What amazes me is that nobody’s wised up to what’s happening.”
