For People Over 75 And Their Loved Ones
May 9, 2012 4 Comments
OMGoodness! We have a SERIOUS problem!! —-
Dr. Suzanne Allen, head of Emergency Services at the
Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee.
We were discussing the “future” and I asked her had she
seen any affects of Obama Care in her work?
“Oh, yes. We are seeing cutbacks throughout the services
we provide. For example, we are now having to deal with patients who would normally receive dialysis can no longer be accepted. In the
past, there was always automatic approval under Medicare for anyone
who needed dialysis. Not anymore.”
So, what will be their outcome?
“They will die soon without dialysis”, she stated.
What about other services?
She indicated as of 2013 (after the election), no one
over 75 will be given major medical procedures unless approved by
locally administered Ethics Panels. These Panels will determine whether a patient receives medical treatment or not. While
details on specific operating procedures and schedules, Dr. Allen
points out that most life-threatening emergencies do not occur during
normal hospital business hours, and if there are emergencies that
depend to be resolve within minutes or just few hours, the likely hood
of getting these Panels approval in time to save a life are going to
be very challenging and difficult, if not impossible she said.
This applies to major operations such as receiving stents, bypass surgery, kidney operations, or treating for an aneurysm hat would be normally covered under Medicare today. In other words, if youneeded a life saving operation, Medicare will not provide coverage anymore after 2013 if you are 75 or over.
When in 2013?
“Wehaven’t been given a specific date. Could be in January or July, but it’s after the election.”
This is shocking to any of us who will be 75 this year.
Her advice, “Get healthy and stay healthy. We do not know the
specifics of the actual implementation of the full Obama Care policies
and procedures. They haven’t filtered down to the local level yet. But
we are already seeing severe cuts in what we provide to the elderly.
We refused dialysis to an individual who was 78 just the other day. Werefused to give stents to a gentleman who was in his late 80s.” Every day, she said, we are seeing these cutbacks aimed at reducing care across the board for anyone who is over 75.
We can only hope that Obama Care will be overturned by
the Supreme Court, otherwise this is a death sentence to those who are over 75. Regardless if you have private health care coverage now, it will no longer apply after 2013 if the Ethics Panels disapprove of a
procedure that may save your life. Think about this? You? Your
parents? Your loved ones?
Didn’t know about it? Of course, not. As Nancy Pelosi
said “we have to pass it to know what is in it”.