NorthWest Florida Republican

Maybe you have seen the movie or read the book.

Logan’s Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources is managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expedient of demanding the death of everyone upon reaching a particular age, thus avoiding the issue of overpopulation. – Wikipedia

Sounds kind of far fetched doesn’t it?

Don’t think it can’t happen. Democrats are already talking about rationing health care resources to those who it would be most cost effective. Leaving those who aren’t cost effective to Hospices. And limiting services to those they feel work vs. those that don’t.

Hospice is one option, but we do need take account of the cost — you know, I hate to say it, the cost-benefit of some of the things we do. And either we can do it directly, or we can do it by bundling the payments and let the delivery system deal with it. So it’s a combination of the delivery system dealing with it, or, and/or providing more information for people to make the right decisions, both for themselves and for the care.

Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air has a great article on this.

With the Report released today about the Medicare trust fund being completely insolvent by 2017, rationing by the government could be possible. It could also be an insight to what might happen under a wider Government run health care system.

If the Government can’t keep Medicare and Social Security funded, why would anyone expect that they can run Health care effectively and efficiently. Yet, this is exactly what people are getting in this currently elected, Democrat controlled Congress. Spend like they have absolutely no care about tomorrow. Eventually they will have to raise taxes to pay for it all. Expect that to be on the agenda for a later session.

If we are not careful, we may see the end to choice in the health care industry.

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