When companies are not allowed to do what is best for
themselves and their customers, but instead have to hire lawyers to tell them
what the government will permit them to do or what the government requires them
to do or not to do, you may soon discover that your life and health are placed
at risk. That’s what The New York Times
is reporting, in an article titled Drug
Shortages Forcing Hard Decisions On Rationing Treatments, as being a reality
in America today. Of course we have seven years of the ultra-leftist Obama
administration and its Obamacare legislation horror show to thank for this
life-threatening development. At one time Obama’s minions strutted and bragged about
the “new normal” that they called the Affordable Care Act. But now, even The New York Times is criticizing this
new direction that the medical industry is taking, and the sad news is that the
disaster of Obamacare has not even been fully implemented yet.
One doctor from the Children’s Hospital at Sinai in
Baltimore reports numerous cases where there were two children in need of a
cancer drug when there was only enough of the drug for one child. The question
is not how doctors ethically make the decision of who gets the drug and
who doesn’t, rather the question is: why
do they have to make the rationing decision in the first place? One cannot
disregard the conclusion that the problem has raised its deadly head since Obamacare
was forced on the nation with its destructive cost controls, its edicted
coverage options, its costly premiums, its outrageously high deductibles, its
lack of competition and its taxes on R&D, and this has all happened during
the seven years of Obama.
The absence or shortage of drugs for seriously ill
patients can result in “increased pain or nausea” or patients may “have to
undergo invasive surgery to control cancer when auto-tumor medications are
delayed” the report says. It further stated that the drug shortage may result
in “higher rates of medical errors, side effects, disease progression and
deaths”. The doctor being quoted by the Times used the word “deaths”. And all
because the government is in charge of all medical aspects of our lives, and under
the radical Obama administration, the government is moving to further invade
our personal spaces at light speed.
The Times
article reported that various hospitals throughout the country have differing
ways of deciding how to ration drugs, which seems to be a hint that the liberal
editors of The New York Times would like to see a control board created in
Washington to centralize “ethical” decisions related to drug shortages and the
need to implement rationing for the entire nation. This power to control,
regulate and restrict our medicine and our medical providers, at the federal
level, is the same aspect of Obamacare that conservatives warned as being “death
squads”.
Ready for Obama’s death squads, anyone? Every
prediction made by conservatives warning legislators and the American public against
Obamacare are coming true, with no relief even on the horizon, let alone just
around the corner. Unless the next president and the federal legislature have
the nerve to stand up to the leftist apologists and repeal Obamacare in its
entirety, this nation is in for a rough ride that it does not deserve.
