Dakota Beacon

Few will tender the real questions about the Democrat health plan as they apply to real life circumstance. But once the Federal government is the primary provider of services and insurer this is exactly the question that they (Federal Bureaucrats) will be empowered to implement in the lives of you, your family, and all the people you love.

With guts and laser guided accuracy James Lewis at the American Thinker asks the questions that dare not be spoken:

Is Senator Kennedy’s life valuable enough to dedicate millions of dollars to extending it another month, another day, another year?

Because Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy agree with each other that they of all people are entitled to make that decision. Your decision to live or die will now be in their hands. Ted Kennedy is now 76. Average life expectancy in the United States is 78.06. For a man who has already reached 76, life expectancy is somewhat longer than average (since people who die younger lower the national average); for a wealthy white man it may be somewhat longer statistically; but for a man with diagnosed brain cancer it is correspondingly less. As far as the actuarial tables of the Nanny State are concerned, Kennedy is due to leave this life some time soon. The socialist State is not sentimental, at least when it comes to the lives of ordinary people like you and me.

Mr. Lewis ends by asking another question about your life and Senator Ted’s life:

The Netherlands legally recognizes four categories of euthanasia.  One of them is:

Passive euthanasia: A physician may choose not to treat an recurrent disease or event in a patient with a terminal progressive disease.

I don’t know enough about Senator Kennedy’s condition, but I would suppose that he has “a recurrent disease or ... a terminal progressive disease.” That would be the case if his brain cancer is not curable. In the socialist Netherlands Kennedy would be a perfect candidate for passive euthanasia.

Has anyone raised this question with Senator Kennedy? I know it seems to be in bad taste to even mention it. But if ObamaCare passes in the coming weeks, you can be sure that that question will be raised for you and me, and our loved ones. And no, we will not have a choice. 

So, in the brave new world of the Obamanation when the faceless government must consider the actuarial implications of rationing medical services and resources……do people have relative value? How will we decide who is more worth spending taxpayer dollars on and toward what end? Not only is socialized medicine a bad idea but it puts our society directly on the path that is the slippery slope of not believing life is sacred and that all are as deserving of its blessing in equal measure. When the government obtains the power of deciding who will live and who will die we will be in deep, deep trouble.

Barack Obama leading Ted Kennedy down the road? Into the sunset?

Leading America into The Abyss?