The president’s macabre new year’s gift: paying hospitals
not to treat seniors
In October of 2012, the Daily Mail exposed the highly disturbing realities of the Liverpool
Pathway (LCP), the series of guidelines for treating terminally ill patients
developed for Britain
The most egregious of those realities concerned cash
incentives paid to hospitals to ensure a certain percentage of hospital
patients would be put on the regime. As healthcare expert Besty McCaughey reveals,
a similar horror show is occurring on this side of the Atlantic ,
courtesy of ObamaCare. Beginning the the same time the LCP scandal was being
exposed, the Obama administration began awarding hospitals bonus points for
spending the least amount of money on elderly patients. Even worse, the idea
was sold to
the elderly as a good thing during the 2012 presidential election campaign.
During that campaign, Obama promised seniors that $716
billion in Medicare cuts over the next decade, used to fund the
$1.9 trillion in new healthcare spending that expanded Medicaid and created the
healthcare exchanges, wouldn't affect them. When Republican Presidential
candidate Mitt Romney ran an ad attacking the cuts, Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith called it
hypocritical. ‘The savings his ad attacks do not cut a single guaranteed
Medicare benefit,’ she declared.
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