Will socialized medicine flirt with covertly conspire to deny care to the elderly?
A very troubling thought has been whispered about, something that no one seems willing to address or post, so in risk of being called a conspiracy theorist (which I am not) I wanted to put this out there just for people to ponder.
It is a foregone conclusion that most people who perceive that something is free, feel that they are entitled to it. Such will inevitably become the case with socialized healthcare. If healthcare becomes available to all and the taxpayer foots the bill, then unless some form of deterrent is put in place, a huge chunk of the population will go to the doctor for every stubbed toe, hangnail or sniffle. Anything from a headache to a constipation will bog down the healthcare system. And if it happens after business hours, the emergency room will be fair game.
Experts have already agreed that the medical profession does not have enough doctors and nurses to handle the flood of people who will come a-running at the first sign of heartburn. Inevitably this will lead to backlogs and waiting lists until such time as professionals and facilities are put in place to handle such a load. But this is not something new. We know this already. We see it happening in other countries with socialized medicine.
Something that looms on the horizon that nobody wants to talk out loud about is patient prioritization. When healthcare resources are low, who will get top priority? Will it be the sick and elderly? Will it be the young? Will it be those who are a drain on society or will it be the economic contributors?
The Govt will swear up and down that they will treat people equally and in the beginning their intention may be just that. But here is the dirty little secret that they won't tell you, the thing that our elderly had better diligently be on guard for:
There WILL come a time when funding for socialized healthcare will become tight. This will force prioritization. And this will open a door for government to say "these folks are getting old and we are wasting far too many resources trying to keep them alive just a few more months when those same resources could be spent to keep a hard working younger person alive for a few decades."
But that's not all!
By taking such a position, the government gets a winfall. Shorter lifespans of the elderly due to prioritization of healthcare means less funds paid out to social security. (Remember that social security is a gamble by the government that enough people will die before retiring that there will be enough money to give to those who live long enough to retire.) The government has spent years trying (badly) to uphold the illusion that social security is still a viable program and will be around for decades to come. But after many years of looking at the looming cloud on the horizon, even the most liberal of politicians is willing to concede that social security is in for some hard times.
When healthcare prioritization becomes inevitable, do you think the politicians will pass up the chance to buy social security a few more precious years or decades, even if it is at the expense of the lives of a few elderly people who would probably pass away in a couple of months anyway?
Pass this on. Make people aware of what could happen so that everyone is on guard to make sure it doesn't happen.
It is a foregone conclusion that most people who perceive that something is free, feel that they are entitled to it. Such will inevitably become the case with socialized healthcare. If healthcare becomes available to all and the taxpayer foots the bill, then unless some form of deterrent is put in place, a huge chunk of the population will go to the doctor for every stubbed toe, hangnail or sniffle. Anything from a headache to a constipation will bog down the healthcare system. And if it happens after business hours, the emergency room will be fair game.
Experts have already agreed that the medical profession does not have enough doctors and nurses to handle the flood of people who will come a-running at the first sign of heartburn. Inevitably this will lead to backlogs and waiting lists until such time as professionals and facilities are put in place to handle such a load. But this is not something new. We know this already. We see it happening in other countries with socialized medicine.
Something that looms on the horizon that nobody wants to talk out loud about is patient prioritization. When healthcare resources are low, who will get top priority? Will it be the sick and elderly? Will it be the young? Will it be those who are a drain on society or will it be the economic contributors?
The Govt will swear up and down that they will treat people equally and in the beginning their intention may be just that. But here is the dirty little secret that they won't tell you, the thing that our elderly had better diligently be on guard for:
There WILL come a time when funding for socialized healthcare will become tight. This will force prioritization. And this will open a door for government to say "these folks are getting old and we are wasting far too many resources trying to keep them alive just a few more months when those same resources could be spent to keep a hard working younger person alive for a few decades."
But that's not all!
By taking such a position, the government gets a winfall. Shorter lifespans of the elderly due to prioritization of healthcare means less funds paid out to social security. (Remember that social security is a gamble by the government that enough people will die before retiring that there will be enough money to give to those who live long enough to retire.) The government has spent years trying (badly) to uphold the illusion that social security is still a viable program and will be around for decades to come. But after many years of looking at the looming cloud on the horizon, even the most liberal of politicians is willing to concede that social security is in for some hard times.
When healthcare prioritization becomes inevitable, do you think the politicians will pass up the chance to buy social security a few more precious years or decades, even if it is at the expense of the lives of a few elderly people who would probably pass away in a couple of months anyway?
Pass this on. Make people aware of what could happen so that everyone is on guard to make sure it doesn't happen.