This is what is coming down the pipleline if this nitwit gets his healtcare reform.
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said his grandmotherâs hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a âsustainable modelâ for health care.
The presidentâs grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had a hip replaced after she was diagnosed with cancer, Obama said in an interview with the New York Times magazine that was published today. Dunham, who lived in Honolulu, died at the age of 86 on Nov. 2, 2008, two days before her grandsonâs election victory.
âI donât know how much that hip replacement cost,â Obama said in the interview. âI would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because sheâs my grandmother.â
Obama said âyou just get into some very difficult moral issuesâ when considering whether âto give my grandmother, or everybody elseâs aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when theyâre terminally ill.
âThatâs where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,â he said in the April 14 interview. âThe chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health- care bill out here.â
eg. death panel.
Obama promised during his presidential campaign that a health-care overhaul would be a top priority, and he said at a Missouri town hall meeting today that he hopes Congress will pass health-care legislation this year.
The issue has been divisive, and finding an answer that will keep costs down while extending coverage to the estimated 46 million Americans without health insurance has eluded past presidents.
âRuthless Pragmatismâ
Obama also said his economic advisers arenât constrained by ideology or connections to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. âWhat Iâve been constantly searching for is a ruthless pragmatism when it comes to economic policy,â he said, in the interview.
Obama also pointed to Canada as an example of a country that has effectively regulated commercial and investment banking without requiring legal separation of those activities.
âWhen it comes to something like investment banking versus commercial banking, the experience in a country like Canada would indicate that good, strong regulation that focuses less on the legal form of the institution and more on the functions that theyâre carrying out is probably the right approach to take,â he said
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said his grandmotherâs hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a âsustainable modelâ for health care.
The presidentâs grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had a hip replaced after she was diagnosed with cancer, Obama said in an interview with the New York Times magazine that was published today. Dunham, who lived in Honolulu, died at the age of 86 on Nov. 2, 2008, two days before her grandsonâs election victory.
âI donât know how much that hip replacement cost,â Obama said in the interview. âI would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because sheâs my grandmother.â
Obama said âyou just get into some very difficult moral issuesâ when considering whether âto give my grandmother, or everybody elseâs aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when theyâre terminally ill.
âThatâs where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,â he said in the April 14 interview. âThe chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health- care bill out here.â
eg. death panel.
Obama promised during his presidential campaign that a health-care overhaul would be a top priority, and he said at a Missouri town hall meeting today that he hopes Congress will pass health-care legislation this year.
The issue has been divisive, and finding an answer that will keep costs down while extending coverage to the estimated 46 million Americans without health insurance has eluded past presidents.
âRuthless Pragmatismâ
Obama also said his economic advisers arenât constrained by ideology or connections to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. âWhat Iâve been constantly searching for is a ruthless pragmatism when it comes to economic policy,â he said, in the interview.
Obama also pointed to Canada as an example of a country that has effectively regulated commercial and investment banking without requiring legal separation of those activities.
âWhen it comes to something like investment banking versus commercial banking, the experience in a country like Canada would indicate that good, strong regulation that focuses less on the legal form of the institution and more on the functions that theyâre carrying out is probably the right approach to take,â he said
