A RETURN TO BASIC VALUES
You would think Reagan was alive today talking about our current problems. It is amazing how history repeats itself and how we are continually fighting socialized medicine under the pretense “it is for our own good.”
It is a long video, but well worth listening to. Ronald Reagan in 1969 gave solid advise that we can use 40 years later as we continue his fight to retain our constitutional rights and freedoms.
The debates over healthcare reform with regard to senior coverage is very disturbing. It is incomprehensible to even think there is debate over providing medical care based on an age vs. productivity model. To the younger generations who are not concerned about this topic, you just might want to take notice. You too will be the seniors and will be facing the same, if not worse, scenario. What may be of even more concern is that if the government can determine your medical care on this basis what might be next?
One has to acknowledge that as we age we generally require more medical care. That care costs money. However, the seniors you are trying to deprive of care have worked all their lives and have paid into a system that promised to take care of them after they retired. They didn’t have a choice in this system and they paid in, with the government taking more and more of their paycheck every year. They paid so their parents and grandparents would be cared for. They paid so they would receive care. Now their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are turning their backs on them! HOW DARE YOU!
Perhaps they should have been, or should now start being, as selfish as you are. Instead of putting money into a system that wants to now reject them, they should have been putting that money into their own personal medical accounts that could only be used for them. Instead of spending their money in this country so you can keep your jobs, they should be saving all they can so they can go elsewhere to get the medical treatments they need. Many already have the means to do just that, so if the democratic party bill passes you will soon be complaining that the only the “rich” can get care because they can pay for it somewhere else. That may be a true fact, but you wanted it that way!
Who decides what is no longer productive? Is it age alone, the amount or your income, or some other arbitrary meter? My parents are in their 70’s and are still working and contributing to society. In fact, my father has spent the last 3 years overseeing the building of their new church and he did it with NO compensation. Would you be willing to give up 3 years of your life to do charity work without receiving a dime? If he could have been paid he would have earned quite a respectable income for those 3 years.
Although I am currently not employed, I babysit my granddaughter so my daughter and work, that was my choice. Is that not contributing to the income pool? She is allowed to keep her hard-earned income rather than spending it all in daycare expenses. If she has to spend all her paycheck to cover daycare expenses then she drops out of the workforce further reducing the income pool and becomes part of the welfare pool, draining the system even more. I know many grandmothers who are watching grandchildren so their children can either finish school or work. Who is to say that these contributions make you “at risk” for receiving medical treatment?
Where does the income productivity factor end? The criminals currently serving lifetime sentences – they will never be a productive income source and are only a drain on the system – do we just instill the death penalty for all life sentences?
How about the people on disability? Because they are disabled they cannot contribute to the income chain and are draining the medical system because of care they might need. Do we deny them medical treatment too?
What about the children born with disabilities who will never be able to be productive citizens? Do we deny them medical care? What if YOU become disabled because of an auto crash or some other injury? If the incident would render you with a permanent disability that would keep you from continuing to be a productive citizen should you be denied treatment?
How long do you stay on unemployment before you are declared an unproductive individual and then are denied medical treatment?
The permanent congressmen that could be interpreted by many as not being productive citizens – can they be denied medical treatment too?
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