The following qoutes comes from an op-ed piece for the NY Times by Steven Rattner that was titled "Beyond Obama Care." The NY Times published this piece on September 16, 2012."WE need death panels. Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently — rationing, by its proper name — the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget."
"Most notably, President Obama’s estimable Affordable Care Act regrettably includes severe restrictions on any reduction in Medicare services or increase in fees to beneficiaries. In 2009, Sarah Palin’s rant about death panels even forced elimination from the bill of a provision to offer end-of-life consultations."
This op-ed piece is a feint to determine how much resistance the Obama administration might receive when the decision comes to send grandma and grandpa, mom and dad if they are 62 or older home with enough opiates to put down an entire herd of elephants, rather than any medical care.
I call this op-ed piece a feint because the author is an Obama administration insider. Mr. Rattner was the car czar for the Obama administration's takeover of GM and Chrysler.
The President should hire an advertising firm that directs the message on cutting Medicare to his political base. Perhaps something like this;
(Cue voice over from Morgan Freeman)
After a rough day at the barricades are you tired of going home and hearing this?
When are you going to get a job? For 29 years we have fed and clothed you, and oh yeah paid for 8 years of college. How about picking up the pizza boxes and Pringle cans in the basement.
Are you tired of the old man grabbing the remote and changing the channel to the game when you are trying to watch Current TV?
Can't access that trust fund and you're facing the possibility of having to get a real job?
Just when you were going to to earn your advanced degree in the Supression of Transgender Native Cultures from the Neo-Colonial White Europeans Studies Department you could actually end up having to leave school to.....insert pause......work at a job.
Maybe you're just tired of sharing your parents house with your parents.
(President Obama appears on the TV screen and speaks directly to the camera)
Your parents did not build their house. They have had their moment, it is your turn now. That is why I have expanded the Cash for Clunkers Program to include the elderly. Call or visit your Planned GrandParenthood clinic today, and remember it is your turn to move Forward. Don't forget to ask about their discount for veterans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/health-care-reform-beyond-obamacare.html?_r=2&
