The testimonies from working physicians around this nation has been truly disturbing. Last night a brain surgeon called into Mark Levin's syndicated radio show and said that he had just recently visited Washington, D.C., to review President Obama's new health care plan for advanced neurosurgical care for patients over 70 years old, issued by HHS (Health & Human Services). The plan, which includes "ethics panels," states that if you are over 70 years old and on government-supported health care and you visit an emergency room, you will receive what they term "comfort care."
Here's an excerpt from the call:
Caller: Basically what the document stated was that if you were over 70 and you'd come into an emergency room and you're on government-supported health care, that you'd get "comfort care."
Mark Levin: Wait a minute…what's the source for this?
Caller: This is Obama's new health care plan for advanced neurosurgical care.
Mark Levin: And who issued this? HHS?
Caller: Yes. And basically they don't call them patients, they call them units. And instead of – they call it "ethics panels" or "ethics committees," would get together and meet and decide where the money would go for hospitals, and basically for patients over 70 years of age, that advanced neurosurgical care was not generally indicated.
Mark Levin: So it's generally going to be denied?
Caller: Yes, absolutely. …If someone comes in at 70 years of age with a bleed in their brain, I can promise you I'm not going to get a bunch of administrators together on an ethics panel at two in the morning to decide that I'm OK to do surgery.
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