On July 17th the New York Post published an article by Betsy McCaughey on the healthcare plan currently being promoted by President Obama.  Betsy McCaughey is the founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York.  She hosts a webside called Defend Your Healthcare.

According to her research:

“Two main bills are being rushed through Congress with the goal of combining them into a finished product by August. Under either, a new government bureaucracy will select health plans that it considers in your best interest, and you will have to enroll in one of these “qualified plans.” If you now get your plan through work, your employer has a five-year “grace period” to switch you into a qualified plan. If you buy your own insurance, you’ll have less time.”

This does not sound like an improvement in healthcare.  The dangers to senior citizens in this bill are many–rationed care will lead to care denied to the elderly.  The bill also has a provision to could be used to encourage senior citizens to refuse treatment:

“One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, p. 425-430). The sessions cover highly sensitive matters such as whether to receive antibiotics and “the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.”

This mandate invites abuse, and seniors could easily be pushed to refuse care. Do we really want government involved in such deeply personal issues?”

Please visit Defend Your Healthcare to learn more and stay informed.  This bill is not something that will improve our healthcare.  Until the President and Congress agree to give up their healthcare and sign on to the bill they pass, we should not accept their healthcare proposals!!