The Black Sphere’s Kevin Jackson comments on the looming power grab that is ObamaCare — and highlights some splinters in the Trojan horse itself:
Using his grandmother [the late Madelyn "Toot" Dunham] as an example, Obama squirmed while explaining that [Toot] likely should not have had her hip replaced, since she was dying of cancer and was 86 years old. Here was his comment:
“I don’t know how much that hip replacement cost,” Obama said in the interview. “I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother.”
“That’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,” he said in the April 14 interview. “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.”
There is no hidden message here, as the message is crystal clear. Sometimes Obama is worse than Biden in revealing the truth, though he is sensitive to the idea not throwing [Toot] from the train. What he’s not saying is he didn’t want her on the train to begin with!
Obama would have preferred [Toot] take painkillers for three weeks, instead of have that expensive hip replacement. After all, she died only a few weeks later. But what if [Toot] had lived another year or two? Should she be kept in a drug-induced stupor or should [Toot] become Soylent Green? Only the government counselors would know for sure…
I would submit that Obama never truly loved or cared about the woman who literally raised him, gave him shelter, and jumped through hoops to give him an education — only to dismiss her for political expedience as “a typical white person”, but I digress. All I know is that I’d be damned if I threw my own mother under the bus like he did.
BTW, if you’re not familiar with the Soylent Green reference, here’s a brief primer on how end-of-life care might be handled as depicted in the 1973 film:
I hope ObamaCare fails.
Might it be that Mr. Obama was trying to say in “retrospect” it may not have been the wisest use of limited funds to give a hip replacement to an 86 year old woman in the final stages of terminal cancer. She died almost immediately after the procedure.If anyone knew that would have been the result, they probably wouldn’t have done it – the hospital governing board included. Medicine often involves triage decisions, and it is not a display of heartlessness to have a mature intellectual grasp of reality. If she hadn’t been afflicted with terminal cancer I don’t think the hip replacement would be controversial, and the whole matter would have a different context. Mr. Jackson, always opposed to what he thinks is creeping government control of our lives, apparently wants to establish the “emotion police’ with himself as chief, and unilaterally rule on the feeling people have or should have for their associates. His arguement is as anti-reason as it is anti-Obama.
As far as not attending her funeral, I will make the guess that his loving grandmother, knowing he was involved in a difficult and historic venture, probably instructed him not to break off the final and essential days of his campaign in order to attend her funeral, because it wasn’t a necessary gesture to show the love she knew they felt for each other. Get real. If you want to argue politics, argue politics. This stuff is unworthy and not germaine to any pressing issue faced by our nation.