Obama’s plan lets senior citizens expire

A current health care bill in the Senate includes provisions for rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill, former Sen. Tom Daschle, has said “health care reform will not be pain-free,” and that seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating all of them.

This means drastic cuts in Medicare spending.

President Obama has on many occasions blasted health insurance companies that won't cover pre-existing conditions. But Obama wants to deny you government coverage if your pre-existing condition is old age. Isn't this called age discrimination?

He says 45 million uninsured Americans can be covered with national insurance with an overall reduction in total health care spending. This is a statement only a snake oil salesman can believe.

Today's senior citizens were reared under the concept of individual responsibility and self-reliance, qualities which are passe in today's liberal world. Today it's in vogue to rely on big government for more and more of life's expenses, and to blame someone else for your troubles. These concepts are foreign to many seniors, and that could be one reason our liberal government wants to let them expire, even though seniors paid into Medicare since it was introduced.

To let Obama and his faceless socialist bureaucrats punch our ticket out of this world is unethical and a pure “Obamanation.”

Ken Thimmesch

Cedar Rapids