Scare tactics or the truth?

Remember when Pelosi and Reid were trying to pass Obamacare and they ridiculed Republicans and Tea Party folks who warned about rationed care and bureacrats making your health care decisions? "They're just trying to scare old people," they derisively opined.

Kathleen Sibelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary who has pretty much said she can do whatever she wants to implement Obamacare, has decided that Medicare will track spending on individual beneficiaries and reward hospitals that "hold down costs" and penalize those whose "patients prove most expensive." The administration will establish "medicare spending per beneficiary" as a measure of hospital performance.

Sounds to me like the end result of this little experiment will be rationed care. The hospitals will just turn away those with dire illnesses so they won't mess up their statistics. We need a renewed push to repeal this travesty!

On a further note, couples who opt to "retire early" and pull in as much as $64,000 a year in retirement benefits will qualify for Medicaid when Obamacare fully kicks in. That means we'll be paying for medical care for people who can afford to "retire early." The reasoning is that it's not fair that they should have to allow for health insurance in the gap between retirement and Medicare age. Folks, we're in deep doo-doo if we allow this program to stand!

"Hospital spending to be tracked." The Dallas Morning News; May 31, 2011; p. 1A.