The Cunning Plan
The popular baby boomer concept of enjoying a healthy and stress free old age could very well be capsized by President Obama’s much publicized Stimulus Plan, especially with regard to plans under discussion for care of more elderly citizens. Baby boomers fall into the category of elderly patients whose health care might be considerably more expensive than the average spring chicken, the cost of which will be carefully tracked and monitored by Federal agencies whose job it will be to decide whether further funding is appropriate on a given case. Yikes!
Where specific guidelines are requested to outline exactly what kind of policies will be adopted in the care and medical attention of the older persons, Obama’s Plan waffles and drifts into vague references which describe ‘meaningful users’ instead of using the term ‘patient’, which definitely implies a duty of medical responsibility. Giving a Federal agency the right to decide who qualifies as a ‘meaningful user’ is like leaving the rat in charge of the cheese. The temptation to weed out seriously ill and vulnerable elderly people as a poor investment would be tantamount to ‘cleansing’ – an unpopular process on which Americans took a stern view when it was practiced by Saddam Hussein (no relation, one presumes).
‘Don’t worry!’ Barrack assures us, in his inimitable and jocular, ever so winning manner which appears to have charmed the birds from a number of international tree species over recent months, ’47 million Americans without health care are going to be taken care of under the new healthcare system!’
Okay. Uh – where is the money going to come from, Mr President, Sir? Not from the resources paid for by many thousands of tax-faithful baby boomers over decades of hard work and industry, right? Mr President…? Hello…?
The unfortunate fact is that as people age, their health problems become more serious. Obviously, those naturally nearer through age to death will experience failing health as life draws to a close. The Stimulus Plan carries a sinister and not that well concealed policy of discarding elderly health as a waste of resources in favour of promoting better health facilities for young families.
Baby boomers are among the country’s more elderly citizens and although some enjoy robust health into their old age, the possibility of sickness is greater as one passes sixty and seventy. Health Secretary Tom Daschle’s proposed controls provide a sieve-like opportunity for hard working tax payers to fall through the holes left by an administration bent on healing the masses at the expense of the few. It didn’t work in Europe: it is not going to work in America.
The winds of change in health structures in the US will blow the tax paying older generation away when the time comes for practical patient care and specialist intervention for conditions widely associated with old age – some of which have been suffered by baby boomers for years.
Amidst the blowing of trumpets and the waving of flags associated with Mr Obama’s new health policies, one hopes that someone, somewhere, is keeping an eye on the vulnerable, the elderly and the aging tax payer.
Obama Care and Baby Boomers: The Cunning Plan is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of articles poking fun at politics and current events in the hopes of shedding light on baby boomer problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.
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