Some Facts About An Actual Government Health Care System.

From an article in the Wall street Journal
In the United Kingdom:
(a)for some breast and stomach cancers, drugs Lapatinab and Sutent that prolong life are not allowed, too expensive;
(b)for terminally ill kidney-cancer patients, drug Sutent that would help, deemed to expensive for use for most patients;
(c) for macular degeneration, effective drug Macugen banned from use, too expensive, and drug Lucentis restricted to about 20% of cases due to high cost, and then for only one eye, so sufferers would go blind in other eye;
(d) for Alzheimer patients, drug Aricept when used in early stages can delay disease, ruled not cost effective for early use
(e) for rheumitoid arthritis, drug Kineret prohibited from use because of cost
(f) for back pain, surgeries and steroid injections procedures greatly restricted due to cost, government says take a pain pill;
(g) for women seeking fertility treatments, restrictions to a limited few due to cost;
(h) for women who developed cervical cancer, pap smear testing that may have caught the onset of cancer had been denied to reduce government spending.
The government in the U.K. has a concept of a "quality adjusted life year" where bureaucrats decide that they cannot afford to spend more than $22,000 to extend a life by six months, and the bureaucrats decide the liklihood of the life extension period, not the doctors.
In Britain, for 2008, cancer survival rates are among the worst in Europe and five year survival raes are well below those in the United States, 84% vs 73% for breast cancer and 92% vs 57% for prostate cancer.
With Obama's "government option" single payer system (which will encompass today's Medicare and Medicaid patients), the government will tell you who is too old or too young or too sick to receive full care; you may not be a cost effective patient, so just suffer or die.
You can be sure that Congress and Obama will not personally be limited to this kind of health care.
THIS IS THE CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN WITH OBAMACARE!