Obamacare Passed -- Welcome to Eurocare

[jordan179]

The power to tax is the power to destroy. And the Federal Government has just acquired a bit more destructive power

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[metaphorsbwithu]

Most people get their insurance through their employer

[jordan179]

Even more ominously, a health care system which is primarily run by the State can also deny coverage to any ill person whose existence the State finds less than perfectly convenient. Rebels, dissidents ... the old ...

[headnoises]

The genetically "differently abled." Anybody who's lot can, with broad brush strokes, be painted as a life you wouldn't want to live for a big enough group....

Death to Fat People

[jordan179]

Given the American Left's current hostility to fat people, what's going to happen to them under Obamacare? No, I don't think that the government will actively pursue a policy of "let fat people die," but I do think that the government may increase demands that fat people lose weight before getting treatment.

Many people who are not fat imagine that it's easy to lose weight ("just stop eating.") It's not: in many cases obesity comes from hormonal imbalances which would make crash-dieting exceedingly dangerous; in some cases these could be the very same hormonal imbalances which lead to the person needing medical treatment.

What happens to an ill fat person at the mercy of a bureaucrat who's convinced that fat people are just "lazy gluttons" who choose to be fat? Remember, depending on the configuration of the bureaucracy, the patient might not have any other appeal -- or, depending on his condition -- he might die while waiting for his appeal to go through.

Re: Death to Fat People

[headnoises]

I've heard the first lady really, honestly, truly hates fat people.

I find it more and more believable.