According to the latest polls:
• 65 percent say President Obama is taking on too many issues
• His approval rating is at 50 percent (worse than Bush was after six months)
• He's fallen 7 points with independents (45 approve, 45 disapprove)
• 52 percent now oppose how he's handling health care — only 39 percent approve
• More than 3 out of 4 think Obama's plan will add to the deficit (speaking about health care)
Currently the proposed budget for Universal Health Care is $1.6 Trillion. Even at that price tag, when does anything that the government touches actually stay on budget? The bottom line is that we will not be able to pay for this program. When the funding is unsustainable they will have to decide who gets what care.
White House Health Care policy adviser- Ezekial Emanuel said, "When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value." Take a look at this chart that he made to explain this.
Cass Sunstein, currently the administration's Regulatory Czar, wrote this in the Columbia Law Review in January 2004:
"I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people."
Are you worried yet? Well you should be, especially if this is what is coming from our current czars and advisers. Universal Health Care is not the answer.
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