"DEATH SPIRAL" RATIONING IN BAUCUS BILL GRAVELY ENDANGERS AMERICA'S SENIORS

"DEATH SPIRAL" RATIONING IN BAUCUS BILL GRAVELY ENDANGERS AMERICA'S SENIORS -- Human Life of Washington

"DEATH SPIRAL" RATIONING IN BAUCUS BILL GRAVELY ENDANGERS AMERICA'S SENIORS

Posted By: Human Life of Washington-State Office, Dan Kennedy, CEO
Date: 18 September 2009

WASHINGTON --
The health care bill proposed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus on September 16 contains a dangerous provision that creates a financial incentive for Medicare doctors to deny treatments to seniors.

"This is the cruelest and most effective way to ensure that doctors are forced to ration care for their senior citizen patients. It takes the telltale fingerprints from the government: instead of bureaucrats directly specifying the treatment denials that will mean death and poorer health for older people, it compels individual doctors to do the dirty work. It is an outrageous way to provide coverage for the uninsured - by taking it away from America's senior citizens."


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