The Independence Institute created an awesome new video based on original research to show the awful effects of health care rationing under Medicaid in Oregon, and how Obama Care would do the same thing.
As it happens, each year politicians get together to decide what illnesses will get priority funding. Naturally, once the politicians (not doctors, but politicians) decide what “deserves” to be funded by Oregon’s government run healthcare system, the lobbyists flood in and begin to agitate for their own priorities.
The result is that often times serious illnesses end up pushed down this list as the political needs of lobbyists get pushed up to be funded first.
“In less than 90 seconds the new video highlights the upside-down priorities of Oregon’s Medicaid system. Lobbying groups have used the political process to push coverage for special-interest causes like substance abuse and weight loss treatment ahead of treatments for some kinds of cancer on the priority list.”
THIS, folks, is the only and obvious outcome of turning our medical care into a political football just like Obamacare does.
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