ObamaCare Would Expand the Culture of Death

If Congress gives us ObamaCare, and you lose your private health insurance because your insurer can't compete with the government-run "free" insurance, don't be surprised if you are denied care if you are too old or feeble.

President Obama is telling you exactly what is coming.

From the Los Angeles Times:

President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care.

In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."

He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."

Obama said he has personal familiarity with such a dilemma. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given less than nine months to live, he said. She fell and broke her hip, "and the question was, does she get hip replacement surgery, even though she was fragile enough they were not sure how long she would last?"

Obama's grandmother died two days before he was elected president in November. It was unclear whether she underwent the hip-replacement surgery.

So we just give the oldsters pills to control the pain until they "get on with it then and decrease the surplus population," as Ebeneezer Scrooge suggested in the Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol."

How many of us have an older relative who is alive and kicking today because of exemplary health care and procedures, like open heart surgery, that weren't available a half century ago?

How many of these relatives would die under ObamaCare?

And so the Culture of Death expands.