Obama Proposes Rationing of Hospital Admittance

Obama has declared that the $2.2 trillion spent per year in this country on health care has to be cut. Of course his proposal for universal health care with the "government option" has all sorts of increases in costs of hundreds of billions of dollars. But to cut some costs, Obama wants to reduce the rate of costly re-admissions to hospitals for 30 days after being first released. Obama has stated this will first be done with Medicare patients by limiting reimbursement to hospitals who readmit patients. Obama says this will save $2.6 billion per year of the $2.2 trillion. You can be sure that the readmit restriction will be extended to all covered under the government option and may even be imposed on those having private health insurance, if the latter survives the "government option". So, we have bureaucrats deciding who gets readmitted to a hospital based on cost rather than doctors and patients deciding based upon need. This is rationing of health care and it will only get worse with full Obamacare. Now, it just so happens that an independent study of 2 million Medicare patients who were readmitted to hospitals within 30 days showed that 90% were readmitted as emergencies with the top reasons being heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and psychotic breakdown. The readmission's were successful in that 93% were alive one year later. How many would have died under Obama's rationing plan if they were forced by bureaucratic rulings to stay at home or at best to go to a hospice? Obama's plan smacks of euthanasia for the elderly, very sick and weak. For those who don't recognize this type of social engineering, it was a basic principle of National Socialism as practiced in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.